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<blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 934475" data-attributes="member: 88961"><p>Monday - When you say you've got your weight to where you want it to be, what does that mean, in terms of BMI? There's a link here to calculate it, if you don't know it: <a href="http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx</a></p><p></p><p>I appreciate BMI is not a fool-proof measurement of health, but it can be a useful tool for most people, aside from super-athletes!</p><p></p><p>In terms of levelling off your weight loss, I can empathise with where you are. It took me some months to get mine stable, finding I found it hard to stop losing. Who would have thought? As a consequence, I usually suggest to people, like yourself, who are pretty much where they want to be (provided it's in a good range) to start applying the brakes. I can tolerate more carbs now, so I do have that option, but I seem to have lost the taste for them to a large extent. So, in oder to reduce, then halt my weight loss, I increased my protein a bit to begin with (<em>completely</em> ineffective!), then began increasing my fat intake, a little as a time, until I found the balance point. Frustratingly, that took me to a place where I am slimmer than my ideal, with a BMI right at the bottom of the healthy range. In fact, this morning, on my regular weight check, I may have lost again, but I won't do anything about it yet, as like the rest of us, I can experience day-to-day variations.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I would say though is to plan what you are going to do, so that you can evaluate your results - good, bad or indifferent, and move on with knowledge. If you just decide to "eat more", how will you know what makes a difference? For me, I was very keen not to get into a yo-yo situation where I got down low, then ate with abandon, to find my weight creeping up, then having to rein everything back again. To me, that would be a recipe for disaster.</p><p></p><p>Monday, I'm not trying to tell you what to do, as you'll decide for yourself, just sharing my actual experiences and the rationale behind them. I like to think I've tackled this whole thing in a systematic way, so that whatever I achieve, or mistakes I made, and there have been a few, I would understand what was going on, and why.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with it all. Balance takes a little while to achieve, but I'm sure you can do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndBreathe, post: 934475, member: 88961"] Monday - When you say you've got your weight to where you want it to be, what does that mean, in terms of BMI? There's a link here to calculate it, if you don't know it: [URL]http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx[/URL] I appreciate BMI is not a fool-proof measurement of health, but it can be a useful tool for most people, aside from super-athletes! In terms of levelling off your weight loss, I can empathise with where you are. It took me some months to get mine stable, finding I found it hard to stop losing. Who would have thought? As a consequence, I usually suggest to people, like yourself, who are pretty much where they want to be (provided it's in a good range) to start applying the brakes. I can tolerate more carbs now, so I do have that option, but I seem to have lost the taste for them to a large extent. So, in oder to reduce, then halt my weight loss, I increased my protein a bit to begin with ([I]completely[/I] ineffective!), then began increasing my fat intake, a little as a time, until I found the balance point. Frustratingly, that took me to a place where I am slimmer than my ideal, with a BMI right at the bottom of the healthy range. In fact, this morning, on my regular weight check, I may have lost again, but I won't do anything about it yet, as like the rest of us, I can experience day-to-day variations. The only thing I would say though is to plan what you are going to do, so that you can evaluate your results - good, bad or indifferent, and move on with knowledge. If you just decide to "eat more", how will you know what makes a difference? For me, I was very keen not to get into a yo-yo situation where I got down low, then ate with abandon, to find my weight creeping up, then having to rein everything back again. To me, that would be a recipe for disaster. Monday, I'm not trying to tell you what to do, as you'll decide for yourself, just sharing my actual experiences and the rationale behind them. I like to think I've tackled this whole thing in a systematic way, so that whatever I achieve, or mistakes I made, and there have been a few, I would understand what was going on, and why. Good luck with it all. Balance takes a little while to achieve, but I'm sure you can do it. [/QUOTE]
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