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My weight loss has slowed to a crawl, not because I am unmotivated but because I've lost enough that my brain thinks I'm done.
In 2016 I had a series of medical crisis, was pretty much bedridden for two years, doctor told me to snack through the day because more stable blood sugar would help the migraines, then I was in a car accident, then I wasn't approved for physical therapy and didn't get it until I decided to just throw money at a place and get some anyway and ... and the list goes on.
Anyway, I have now lost all that weight. I am down to my Obama era pants. Because I haven't been able to go clothes shopping, most of my PJs and daily wear items are tents on me.
So, I've had trouble convincing my brain to do that bit of extra work to keep my weight loss on track. I am still losing, which is a good sign that my current diet is a good level for long term maintaining a lower weight. As of this morning I am over 200 pounds! But I should have hit that mark like a month ago.
My brain was all 'okay we are back to normal, project done, pack it in.' But, I am hopefully only 1/2 through my weight loss? Halfway? One third of a way? IDK how much weight I want to lose but I do not plan to stop right here. I needed to reset my thinking a bit. Yes this weight is good and I've lost over 35 pounds ... but I still have a ways to go.
I don't know how much weight I want to lose. On one hand my doctor told me that I should just 'maintain' at 235, and then when I talked to a weight loss doctor he was all hyper about getting me down to 99 pounds ASAP and I walked the fuuuuuuck out of there. I'll make a longer post on all of that later but like ... yeah, what would be good weight ranges for me? IDK. BMI is not only BS but I am built like a linebacker. I am very sure that some 'healthy' weights for my height would actually be deeply unhealthy. It would be nice to have a sane conversation with a medical or fitness person about this but I either get told I shouldn't pay attention to my weight or I get people who are intense about me getting down to a weight that seems scary-low for someone with my skeleton shape and muscle mass. I even told a doctor once I can't get to 99 pounds without losing muscle they said that was fine. yikes. yikesarooni. yikes on trikes.
Anyway, that is a post for another day. For now I am going to aim for 170 and take stock when I get there.
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Date: 2021-04-25 06:50 pm (UTC)From:I know what you mean. I have gained a scary amount of weight since moving to NY and the lockdown did not help at all.
But if I remember correctly, we were of similar height when we met all those years ago (I'm 5'4" - 5'5" ish), and I know for me, the healthiest I've ever been was when I weighed between 140-170 lbs, and this includes in my early 20s when I weighted 115 lbs or so. But at that higher weight, I was cycling daily and my asthma was reduced tremendously and I felt good.
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Date: 2021-04-25 08:35 pm (UTC)From:I am a more 5'3-ish and I feel like somewhere in 130-160 is a good weight for me. I'd just like to have a reasonable, moderate discussion about it with a medical person but that doesn't seem to be possible. Given family medical history it's possible that for cardio reasons keeping under like 150 might be a really good idea for me.
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Date: 2021-04-26 02:40 am (UTC)From:I think 170 sounds like a healthy and reasonable goal. If you decide at that point that you want to aim for something else, that's fair, but that sounds reasonable to me.
I dropped below 100 lbs as an adult once. I was deeply unhealthy at that point, and the idea that ANY doctor would recommend that fills me with an incandescent rage.
But congratulations on your progress! I'm sorry you've hit a plateau, but I know you'll get past it.
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Date: 2021-04-26 04:50 am (UTC)From:Seeing a weight loss doctor was a dumb idea. I did it a while ago, back before I was able to be more active. Weight was really holding back my recovery. He tried to put me on medication without even discussing goals or medical history first.
Thanks! Yeah, I want to keep going and just focus on that 170 number for now.