Losing 5lb by mid-March?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else find that they have to eat quite a lot less than their "maintenance calories" in order to loose weight?

After I loose weight, won't my "maintenance calories" become a lower number? Since I won't need as many calories to sustain a smaller woman, right?

On the food tracking apps I don't think the maintenance calories adjust lower as you loose weight - or do they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find that they have to eat quite a lot less than their "maintenance calories" in order to loose weight?

After I loose weight, won't my "maintenance calories" become a lower number? Since I won't need as many calories to sustain a smaller woman, right?

On the food tracking apps I don't think the maintenance calories adjust lower as you loose weight - or do they?

It's LOSE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a very salty dinner last night and the scale rewarded me with a 2 pound weight gain! Laying off the salt today, drinking water, hopefully tomorrow morning a better number will greet me.

wow didn't know it could cause that much weight gain overnight!

Well I hope that's what it is! Water retention, hopefully. Apparently salty food will do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a very salty dinner last night and the scale rewarded me with a 2 pound weight gain! Laying off the salt today, drinking water, hopefully tomorrow morning a better number will greet me.

wow didn't know it could cause that much weight gain overnight!

Salt causes water retention .

I'm down a bit, but I just ordered wings for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a very salty dinner last night and the scale rewarded me with a 2 pound weight gain! Laying off the salt today, drinking water, hopefully tomorrow morning a better number will greet me.

wow didn't know it could cause that much weight gain overnight!

I can easily go up 2lbs overnight if I go from a few days of eating pretty clean to a very salty carby day. It's not really weight gain, it's water retention/bloat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find that they have to eat quite a lot less than their "maintenance calories" in order to loose weight?

After I loose weight, won't my "maintenance calories" become a lower number? Since I won't need as many calories to sustain a smaller woman, right?

On the food tracking apps I don't think the maintenance calories adjust lower as you loose weight - or do they?

Yes, this is one reason why people think they plateau and aren’t losing weight anymore. What is usually happening is that they lost weight, and now the amount of calories needed to maintain is lower, so their calorie deficit also needs to adjust. I need a deficit of 300 calories a day. What my total daily calorie intake per day to lose weight at 140 lbs vs 115 lbs is very different.

You should probably check on what your calorie intake should be yourself, rather than rely on the apps. Search TDEE calculator, use one that will estimate your deficit. It should give you a ballpark idea and you can compare with the app.

[Anonymous]

Lost 2 lbs. 8 more to go!

[Anonymous]

Soup, soup, and more soup. I make 2-3 pots per week and love it. I pretty much lose weight immediately when soup becomes my main meal (lunch) and my snacks.

[Anonymous]

I’m down 4 lbs since this thread started. I cut calories to lose 1/2 lb per week, nothing drastic. I do 30 min strength training 5x week and added 45 min walk last week. Since I’m newbie to weights and keeping calorie deficit minimum it’s possible for me to lose lb and build strength. I’m surprised I lost 2 lbs in 10 days though. Anyway, my goal has and continues to be a slow loss of 10-12 lbs total by May.

[Anonymous]

Just coming here to vent....I went from about 160 down to as low as 150.5 a few days ago...yesterday was 151.5 and today 153!! I have not been eating more or exercising less, either. I'm hoping that the heavy lifting I did last night has caused water retention and tomorrow I'll be closer to 150 than 155...fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just coming here to vent....I went from about 160 down to as low as 150.5 a few days ago...yesterday was 151.5 and today 153!! I have not been eating more or exercising less, either. I'm hoping that the heavy lifting I did last night has caused water retention and tomorrow I'll be closer to 150 than 155...fingers crossed.

The body is a weird thing.
I'm eating well, tracking all food - yet still have these upticks in weight. SMH. Not cool, body, not cool.

[Anonymous]

I’ve lost 9 lbs since mid-November. It was pretty slow until mid-December, but I’m losing about a half to .8 lbs a week now. Along with tracking what I eat, I’ve been doing strength training and some cardio 3 - 4 times a week.

I have one and a half lbs. more to go before my initial goal weight (this is the one where I can zip/button my existing pants without belly overflow).

My final goal is three more (which is where I feel most comfortable - I gain most in my waist and hate the squished up / full / distended feeling when I’m sitting down). I can tell I’m gaining muscle, though, so as long as my stomach area slims down a bit more, the actual lbs don’t matter since it will be muscle rather than fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just coming here to vent....I went from about 160 down to as low as 150.5 a few days ago...yesterday was 151.5 and today 153!! I have not been eating more or exercising less, either. I'm hoping that the heavy lifting I did last night has caused water retention and tomorrow I'll be closer to 150 than 155...fingers crossed.

SIMILAR here. I went to 148 a few days ago and vowed I'd never see 150 again. This morning I'm 150.5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just coming here to vent....I went from about 160 down to as low as 150.5 a few days ago...yesterday was 151.5 and today 153!! I have not been eating more or exercising less, either. I'm hoping that the heavy lifting I did last night has caused water retention and tomorrow I'll be closer to 150 than 155...fingers crossed.

SIMILAR here. I went to 148 a few days ago and vowed I'd never see 150 again. This morning I'm 150.5

Sorry to hear that. Don’t get discouraged. If you’re tracking and at a deficit you will go back down. I only weigh myself once a week because the daily up and down would be discouraging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just coming here to vent....I went from about 160 down to as low as 150.5 a few days ago...yesterday was 151.5 and today 153!! I have not been eating more or exercising less, either. I'm hoping that the heavy lifting I did last night has caused water retention and tomorrow I'll be closer to 150 than 155...fingers crossed.

SIMILAR here. I went to 148 a few days ago and vowed I'd never see 150 again. This morning I'm 150.5

I'm the original venter....today I was back down to 151. Maybe it really was because I did evening weightlifting and had some fluid retention. I try to remind myself that if I were NOT dieting and exercising, my weight would be going up, so even when it's stalled out or plateauing, it's better than the alternative.

My issue is that I feel like if I ate pretty much whatever I want, I'd be at 160. But even if I diet like crazy, its REALLY hard to get under 150. Hopefully I'll break that barrier and train my body to live closer to 140 than 150 this time. Fingers crossed.