Lowest Weight?

[Love27 29]

On 12/13/2020 at 20:32, Arabesque said:

I don’t count calories but I count Protein every day & am conscious of portion size. I do check the caloric count of any new food I consider adding to my diet. I eat pretty much the same things every day. To give you an idea of what I eat:

I serve (35g dry) rolled oats made with 1 cup milk & 12-15 blueberries. (I used to have scrambled eggs but 1 egg wasn’t enough & 2 were too much.)

6 or 8 multi grain crackers with liverwurst

120g prawns with about 2 cups of lettuce & seafood sauce or 80g chicken with about 2 cups of lettuce, 2 inches cucumber, 1 pickled onion & balsamic dressing. (The only reason I can eat this much is because I eat it over at least an hour.) If I’m out I eat less. E.g. 1/3 of a wrap without the wrap.

1 tub high Protein yoghurt

About 80g (raw) of protein: beef, pork, lamb, fish, etc. with half to 3/4 cup steamed vegetables

fruit - either grapes, paw paw, rockmelon, mango, mandarin, etc.

Protein Bar

Some nights I’ll skip the Protein Bar or the fruit. Very occasionally I may add a string cheese or some whole grain rice crackers with hummus during the day depending how I’m feeling.

I have 350ml green tea mid morning too. Lately I’ve been drinking 400mls of sparkling water- I pour it out in the morning so it gets flat & randomly sip on it all day. It’s just something different to the plain Water I also drink. I take my time eating - 20 minutes is a quick meal like the yoghurt. 40 mins is pretty common for Breakfast & dinner. Each meal/snack has a minimum of about 10g of protein, except the string cheese (5g) & the fruit of course. On days I’m not hungry I may only eat the protein at lunch & dinner.

Thank you so so much for sharing. Just tying to get an idea or better yet trying to find my balance since I’m starting on maintenance mood.

[ms.sss 14,704]

19 hours ago, Love27 said:

This is exactly what I want to maintain at that weight... how many calories do you eat a day? I guess I’m just trying to find a balance now that I am 11 months out.

After weight loss phase I worked myself up to about 1800-2000 cals a day, BUT I was also exercising moderately to high every day.

However, I gained about 6lbs during pandemic due to decrease in regular exercise (and increase in Desserts and alcohol, lol). So I cut my cals to about 1200-1500 (and exercised a little bit more regularly, but not to pre-weight-gain levels cuz I'm lazy) around mid-summer and am basically back to 115lbs today (weighed in at 115.6 this morning).

Soooo....based on this, if I exercise every day then I can maintain at 1800-2000 cals a day. If I stick to the amount of exercise that I am currently doing, I am guessing I can maintain at around 1700-1800 cals a day. If I don't exercise at all, it would probably be around 1500.

Keep in mind though that other factors need to be considered to determine each persons' calorie maintenance level (age, metabolic rate, medication, malabsorbative functions of different surgeries, thyroid function, etc. etc....)

Edited December 14, 2020 by ms.sss

[GreenTealael 24,868]

On 12/13/2020 at 9:56 AM, catwoman7 said:

a lot of us seem to start regaining during year 3 and our bodies eventually settle at around 10-20 lbs above our lowest weight (and unfortunately for some, they continue to gain a lot more than that and "settle" higher than they'd like). My BMI got down to around 21, but it's now 25 (give or take a couple of decimal points, depending on the day). There's part of me that would love to be down to a 21 BMI again, but I still sit here at c. 25 and have been here for about two years, so I'm clearly not willing to do what it would take to get me back down there. I can eat 1500-1700 kcal/day and maintain my current weight, and that's very do-able to me. I'm sure I would have to cut my calories quite a bit to lose weight, or pretty much live in the gym, and I'm not sure that's sustainable for me at this point.

I completely agree (with everything you said) and feel the exact same way

[Love27 29]

On 12/14/2020 at 09:45, ms.sss said:

After weight loss phase I worked myself up to about 1800-2000 cals a day, BUT I was also exercising moderately to high every day.

However, I gained about 6lbs during pandemic due to decrease in regular exercise (and increase in Desserts and alcohol, lol). So I cut my cals to about 1200-1500 (and exercised a little bit more regularly, but not to pre-weight-gain levels cuz I'm lazy) around mid-summer and am basically back to 115lbs today (weighed in at 115.6 this morning).

Soooo....based on this, if I exercise every day then I can maintain at 1800-2000 cals a day. If I stick to the amount of exercise that I am currently doing, I am guessing I can maintain at around 1700-1800 cals a day. If I don't exercise at all, it would probably be around 1500.

Keep in mind though that other factors need to be considered to determine each persons' calorie maintenance level (age, metabolic rate, medication, malabsorbative functions of different surgeries, thyroid function, etc. etc....)

Thank you so much!! Now I can get an idea of how to start maintaining!