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What are your suggestions for losing those last pesky ten pounds? I've probably lost them a dozen times, but they keep coming back.

Part 1: LOSING the last 10 lbs. Only do it if you are willing to do part 2. If you are, I recommend MWL. Or regular plan, if you've been on it up to now, but with less bread, more veggies, etc.

Part 2: KEEPING OFF the last 10 lbs. Stay on what got you there. If you lost via MWL and you return to the regular program you will probably gain it back. If you lost on the reg program and you start adding in non-plan items, you will regain it.

Basically, you can't expect to get to goal weight, esp. if it's a number that is harder to reach for you, and go back to anything OTHER than what got you there.

Hope that makes sense!

What she said! How are the last 10 coming back? Do you relax and change what you were eating? If not, that is puzzling, and maybe your body has its own right weight for you, which is higher than your goal. What is your goal weight, and how tall are you?

What's funny about the last 10 pounds for me is that I basically gave up on them. My original McD goal weight was 124, but way back in the olden days, when I was 26, my Weight Watchers goal weight was 132, which I basically "perched" on for a few months, and then rebounded upwards. As I passed 132 on this way of eating, I felt like I'd never see 124. So, I decided to re-evaluate my goal weight to 132. Since then, I have been losing very slowly, over the last 7 months, and have now achieved my original goal weight, and am still going down a bit.

I have not changed, nor do I plan to change, my way of eating; I assume that my body will just stabilize at its new ideal weight as I continue to eat this way.

For me, I was eating MWL, but my weight loss stopped 10 pounds from where I wanted to be. So I started a running program (you can see a picture of me back from a run in my Star profile - gotta love those old indian braids ). The extra exercise really made the pounds fall off! That was ten years ago. Now I know more about calorie density, and I have better luck by increasing my ratio of green and yellow vegetables to starch. My current weight is ten pounds lower than my old goal weight and now all I do is walk - running was hard on the knees!
Kate

Thanks for the info - I'm 5ft 4in and usually am about 127 pounds. I've been following MWL for two years now and am just now starting to get cravings for bread so my weight has gone up past 130, then I get back to MWL and I usually get back to 127/125 or lower.

I guess what you said about MWL is right - if it gets you there stay with it. I eat plenty of veggies, but I've just got to cut out the bread. In the past, it was always non-'MWL food or drinks that put it back on. At 5/4 it doesn't take too many pounds for my clothes to not fit.

What's great is that on MWL I really don't have to even think about my weight, so maybe I will have to reevaluate going any lower.

Yup. I like to eat LOTS of what I cook. So it has to be MWL or I would gain fast. I know this from hard former experience. I love MWL b/c I can pretty much eat all I want. Last night I had 2 large russet taters made into Jeff's fries, plus some leftover Longevity Soup PLUS some oatmeal w/ fruit. It was a lot of food. I was happy.

Your advice was so right! I just stayed with MWL and more weight came off - I'm now at 121 -122 without even trying. If I go off MWL the weight will come back on. But I do love the quantity I can eat on MWL - it makes me happy too!