For me, I upped my calories around the 17 month mark to stop losing. Right around the 2 year mark, I gained 10. I had to cut back my calories to lose it and then maintain (2500 calories vs 2000 calories). I was a religious calorie tracker back then.

I have been absent from here for a few weeks... life's been a little crazy. In October- because I weigh daily and record weekly I realized I had gained 6lbs. What is up with that? While there may have been an occasional special occasion ...I knew I was not off the rails. There were a few other non WL symptoms happening as well...and I had an epiphany one night it might have been a medication change. I spoke to the Doc, he had me do blood work, reduce the medicine after the bloodwork and I am going Monday for the results.... After a week of reducing the medicine some of the symptoms are better and overnight I dropped three pounds. So Whew! I think my epiphany was on target. 

Highest weight: 420+

Consult weight 383

Last week: 172

This week: 169 in Maintenance range

I mentally rolled my eyes when my husband bought a fancy Fitbit scale. But turns out I love it for the fact that it calculates weekly averages and shows trends. I've seen some people who say their weight only went down the first year or 6 moths etc.

definitely not the case for me. I have a big whoosh, then level for a couple day, then another whoosh, then a swing back up, then tiny little losses that take me back to the low weight. Then it starts again. But looking at the overall trend, I'm super happy with the results.

I have definitely warned my partner that I will excuse myself if I need to.  And I can always "go study," the perks of being a college student :D

Thanks!  

I don't know if you've seen it, but I use this site called trend weight (link is in my sig below) and it's awesome for tracking trends of weight instead of daily fluctuations.  It has saved my mental health :)