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Very small deficit, Success stories?
I have at least 5 pounds, but probably closer to 9 to lose, and honestly want it to be as painless as possible. Theoretically I know it's possible to lose 0.25/0.5 pounds a week but I've always done 1or 2 pounds a week which works well albeit hard to keep up especially at a lower weight(Keep trying to do 1200 and end up at…
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My first real "mistake" in maintenance
I've been maintaining 130-135-ish for almost 2 years now, Had my ups and downs but has been surprisingly easy in the end. Then late Oct hit, I stopped really paying attention to my eating as much. One icecream bar turned into icecream bars every night, The morning coffee with milk turned into coffee with creamer. Little…
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Do you accept that you'll have to log for the rest of your life(or atleast the foreseeable future)?
I've been thinking about this because I've wondered if I could stop and still be successful and honestly I don't think I can. It's always been count calories to lose weight, slack off and regain 7, 15, 30 pounds. I accept that I'll have days where I won't or cant log, maybe even longer. But if I don't want to regain what…
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What do you do when you're bored of food?
I'm generally pretty okay with eating the same or similar all the time but right now I'm just plum bored and tired of all my standards! When I look up new recipes or something all my brain sees is "oh this will taste like something I've had before and I don't want that". Very uninspired right now and while food doesn't…
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Maintaining easily vs maintaining a low weight
I feel myself getting frustrated, I've been eating at a slight deficit and I've lost roughly 2 pounds from some regain but lately it's been a kind of two step forward, one back situation. I eat at my deficit level, but then I have one-two days over maintenance and then I've netted maintenance for the week again. Which hey,…
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Weight fluctuations can be so frustrating
I've been trying to lose some regain from maintenance for about two weeks now, All was going fine I got down to 132 from 133.6. Then I had a maintenance day where I ate 1700 which isn't unusual for me, I've done it many many times before without issue because it's maintenance. Since then I've rapidly gone back up to…
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Afraid to eat later in the day
Talk me off the ledge here. So I often get hungry and want a snack at like 7-9pm, Generally no big deal I stay up late I have the calories most days so why not? Well because I'm terrified of gaining scale weight because it's happened before. I know logically it's nothing to fret, it doesn't reflect anything substantial and…
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Are height to waist/waist to hip ratios important?
As I saw these ratios on other threads I curiously plugged in my info and I'm on the low end of healthy for waist-height(5'2, 25" waist) and 0.67 for waist-hip(25-37) which is also well into healthy. Color me confused, I'm not overweight anymore I'm just on the high end of "healthy" bmi at 24, So I would think being lower…
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Suddenly gaining weight on maintenance calories?
I'm mildly freaking out, I know that weight fluctuates but I weighed the highest I've been in months today. I weighed 129 and I was tracking/averaging 126 last month into the beginning of this month, I know I had 3 days way over my goals but for the last 2 weeks I've been around 1200-1700(averaging 1500) which is what I…
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Will a couple of days over maintenance end up being a big deal?
Sorry if this sounds stupid but I'm new to maintaining. When I'd have a few off days when I was eating 1200-1500 I wouldn't worry since I was in a deficit before/after and I thought it would all balance out. My maintenance is 1600-1750 or so and I've hit 2300 yesterday and just over 2000 today due to not really…
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Anxious about staying in maintenance long term
I'm not alone in this right? I have the knowledge for how to maintain because I've been doing a routine of a few weeks on a deficit a few weeks at maintenance for the last oh...10 pounds. As a practice round for maintaining, and that'll be exactly how I deal with creep up in weight too. It's just something about thinking…
