mtbc | Weight loss maintained (Reply)

My weight seems to have become fairly stable. At this time last year I weighed 164.6lb. It tends to go up over vacations when I stop counting calories carefully and to drift back downward when I am: for example, a couple of months ago I weighed 164.8lb and this morning I am down to 163.4lb which, given natural variation, is close enough that I consider it to be broadly the same. I doubt that my recent hiatus in exercise made much difference. I eat more than 15Mcal each week so that is plenty.

I will see how I do over this Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am taking this Thursday through Monday off work and plenty more time over subsequent weeks. To reduce my holiday weight gain I will try to be a little stricter while slacking off as I would rather stay more comfortably within the healthy region of the usual BMI charts. For me that region's center is below 150lb so I would rest more comfortably at a few pounds less than where I am now. I have not yet weighed below 160lb.

If I remain poor at my vacation habit of trying to guess without actually counting then I may consider making 15Mcal a hard limit for typical working weeks to give that downward drift a gentle extra push. Fortunately my new reading glasses help with nutrition labels.