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Old Wed, Jun-05-02, 18:02
gracie-poo gracie-poo is offline
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Plan: atkins/PP/my own
Stats: 180/133/140
BF:sz 14/4-6/toned 4
Progress: 118%
Location: Boston, MA!
Post Coming to maintenance, and don't know when to stop!

I am drifting towards maintenance, and am trying to figure out where I want to stop losing weight. My original goal was 145, but now, 4 pounds away, I am feeling ambitious. I just am not sure if 140 would be too skinny? I am young, tall with a medium frame. The weight is coming off slowly (which is alright with me) but it is FINALLY coming off my waist (I went from a 30 inch waist to a 29 in three days! ). I feel oddly compelled to fit into a size 6 (I am now mostly a 8, sometimes 10, sometimes the 6 fits). I am starting to think that I have developed an unhealthy addiction to the "acomplishment" of losing weight. My fight with these 30 so pounds has been hardly a fight at all, in fact I have barely stalled since I started this journey on January 1st. I love jumping on and seeing that pound go, that 4 pound whoosh. It's exciting. I also feel more comfortable in my own skin than I have in years, which is great.

I could stop at this weight, and feel cool with it. I look pretty good, things don't bulge much anymore. BUT....like I said, I am feeling ambitious. I am eating far above induction (sorry, I just don't know how many carbs I intake a day, I like the freedom of not counting) and am still losing. It seems even when I up the carbs to some degree, I still lose.

OK, sorry for rambling, but do you guys think that my weight loss will just stop at some point eating this way, at my natural point? My big question is: my lean body mass is 111 pounds.....is 140 too low for that?? Or perfect??

AH!!!! I am so confused!
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