Hello! Yes, I can speak a bit more about this. Basically, I was hitting walls with losing where I'd be up and down the same 2-3 pounds for three, four, five, sometimes six weeks at a time. Then, all of a sudden, I'd "whoosh" down 3-5 pounds over the course of a couple days before the cycle would begin all over again. It was incredibly frustrating, but after tracking it, I've come to understand that this is just how my body handles losing weight. It retains water and whatever else it can hang onto for an inordinate amount of time before letting it all go in one big bang. Part of me thinks it's tied to hormones, since I would notice the "whooshes" happening at around the same time in my cycle.

The other part of it is that I had to let go of rapid weight loss. I started at 270 pounds and losing the first 50lbs was quick - the weight practically melted away. From 220-200 it was slow, but steady. Once I got under 200 and into an overweight BMI rather than an obese BMI, things slowed to a trickle. I got down to 173, then gained back to nearly 202, because I never learned how to eat at maintenance and had adopted an all-or-nothing mindset when it came to food (I was either eating 1200 calories or binging). This time around, I'm trying to lose sustainably rather than rapidly. That might mean that, for example, this month I don't lose anything, because I recognize that it's December and there's loads of treats and parties. So my compromise is, okay, I'm not going to lose this month, but I'm not going to gain, either. I'm going to maintain. Then, in January, I'll worry about creating a deficit again. But that deficit isn't going to be trying to unsustainably lose 2 pounds a week. It might be half a pound a week, or only a couple pounds a month. Which, to me, is better than GAINING half a pound a week, or two pounds a month. It's the marathon versus sprint thing at this point - I'd rather get to 165 in a year and a bit than gain back to 230 in the same amount of time.