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I love this!

5'3" SW: 136 CW: 127 GW: 120-125

I'm hoping for a whoosh... I've been diligent for the past 3 weeks, but the scale fluctuates 2-3 lbs UP every other day or so. Trying really hard to stay positive and not get the defeated feeling and quit!

I agree... she's afraid of these foods and won't eat them :( So, my advice to her to eat in moderation and balance, doesn't really sit well with her, since she doesn't WANT to eat these types of foods anyway. No winning .

Yep :( My good friend is in the health and wellness field, a PT and a group fitness instructor. She's not overweight and looks good IMO, but she's NEVER been happy with her body...she hasn't eaten pizza since she was 10,only does clean eating , doesn' t have salt or bread in the house, etc.. I know this is borderline…

This post is awesome...definitely helps when you're not seeing a change after 2-3 weeks and getting depressed about it...

Hoping I whoosh because it's been 2 weeks with no loss...yet definitely eating under maintenance!

Wholly guacamole 100 calorie packs! It was hard for me to figure out calorie count/ portion sizes, so this makes it so much easier!

Do you mean adding back 100 calories every day for a week? If you added back 100 calories every week, that would only be an additional 14 calories a day...doesn't even seem like it would matter at that point.

I agree :) I may get a little more bloated in the stomach, but it's not like I'll be wearing belly shirts all weekend.. and I know it's not actual fat gain. If I was going to the beach, then I would just watch the sodium and drink lots of water. But for just general hanging out with clothes on... I say who cares!

This is SO right. God I wish I knew this when I started trying to lose weight... I wasted 3 months trying to just eat clean and actually gained fat/weight. With all this advice above, I lost 10 pounds. Please do not think clean eating is necessary for weight/fat loss!

No amount of exercise helped me until I learned portion control and moderation with my eating... also, getting a good idea of the calories your body needs to maintain/gain/lose weight and eating at that specific goal.

I' m about your same stats. I stopped eating back all of my exercise calories and that's making a big difference! I think my logging just wasn't super accurate, so I was probably eating back my exercise cals to be at maintenance.

should i bother with a spray tan for this event.

I've actually thought about this, too...but a little different. One week, I went over maintenance by about 2,000 calories. The following week, I got back on track..and did so for the next 4-5 weeks, eating at my normal defecit. However, it was the around the third week that I noticed weight gain (not scale weight, but…

Good idea... I guess my unplanned days would be a random happy hour with friends or going out dinner spur of the moment. I guess like you said a good plan would be to eat a little less throughout the week for these times that usually pop up on the weekends! I also like the cash vs credit card analogy.

I ALWAYS have eggs handy. I also keep frozen broccoli stocked up..makes a low cal side dish that's easy to prepare.

Gotcha...That makes sense! Thanks for your viewpoint.

If I know I'm having a particularly large dinner, I'll add those calories in first and work my other meals around that.

* I guess I'm thinking that either way, you're restricting your calories ...the only difference is timing * ?

Is there a particular reason you prefer to do it this way? Why do you think it's easy to spiral if you go the opposite (when in the end it should all balance out anyway).. not debating, just curious? I'm thinking because what if you have an unplanned day?

Great advice. Thank you!

SAME!

I have a question, but it's sort of the opposite. I'm going on a boat trip with a group (co-ed) and one of the girls that is going, is overweight and is very self conscious. She mentioned that she is nervous about going b/c she will be "the fattest girl there" and pointed out that I am 'tiny'... even though I also have my…

I agree. The only reason I set it lower is because without fail, I know I will under estimate what I eat. It's really hard for me to be that precise...so that way, it gives me a buffer.

Oh, yep...duh.

I am learning from trial and error ...and this works for me :smiley:

Same here. I'm 5'3", desk job and don't exercise that much. I like to take 20-30 min walks at lunch and maybe elliptical 2-3 times a week. So, my TDEE is around 1550. I did the recommended .5 lb loss per week since I only want to lose another 5-8 lbs, but that is only a deficit of 250...and I easily underestimate how much…

I'm 5'3", but same scenario. I was eating back all my exercise calories and pretty much maintaining or losing at a snails rate. I stopped eating back my calories and have finally seem some shift. I think a lot of it was overestimating my calories and underestimating my food intake. Just hardly any wiggle room!

No problem! It's also handy when you want to 'roll over' calories to the next day or two.. you can easily see how you can spread it out through the week instead of trying to do all the math :wink: