two years out and gain

Wow yesterday was two years and I started out at 365 and was down to 165. I feel so great, but I always knew I was a skinny person in a fat persons body lol. However I've gained back a few pounds eating the same stuff and now I'm 172 and been there for a few months, for the long timers is it normal at this stage to gain a few pounds back.I an nearly 5'8 so I hold it week but hate the scale right now.

Welcome back!

Here's my 2 cents worth:

1. Start up your food journal again (if you stopped) and just make sure nothing has made its way into your diet that might be causing the gain.

2. Check your water/fluid intake. 100 oz a day is best, but 64 oz is minimum a day.

3. Make sure that you are eating protein first and getting the amount you need per day.

4. Have you started working out more? Sometimes that can cause gain.

5. Make sure your carbs are coming from healthy things like fruits and veggies, first.

6. If you still don't lose the few pounds after checking all of these things, go see your doctor in a couple of weeks and get bloodwork done.

Good luck!

Do you mean you are eating what you always eat and the weight gain is unexplained or that you've started eating more and it's showing up?

I haven't changed anything obviously now i can eat a bit more but not more than two to three ounces of meat,i don't eat any carbs except those in veggies, exercise is the same the only thing i probably do different is instead of 8 cups of water i probably drink 10-12

I've always had excellent restriction, so i don't know if its cuz i can eat more even though i still think i have pretty good restriction but I'm not gaining anymore it just went up and just staying there

Dr says not to worry about it right now cuz i lost nearly 100%of my excess weight and he sd that isn't likely when someone starts out with the bmi that i did, he sd just if i gain more to give him a call...

The big question is: how are your clothes fitting? To me, that's really what counts. If they are fitting the same or are looser, I wouildn't worry about it. If they are a bit tighter, then you've gained a bit of fat but it's normal to bounce back 5-10 pounds somewhere in the 2-4 year point. There are  a number of reasons for it but it seems to happen to more than it doesn't happen to.

A for how to respond, this is my observation, for what it's worth:

Some people get all militant and go everything in their power to get it back off. Of those people, a small percentage are successful and the rest get sucked back into that cycle of never being happy about their weight and constantly cycling between restricting themselves to get some off and then relaxing while it comes back on.

Others just shrug and accept it as normal. Of those, most stay at that slightly higher weight and are fine. A small percentage get back on that path of going up a few pounds every year until they have significant regain.

For me, my weight tends to fluctuate more than most, I think. (Or maybe just more than most report??) When I'm training, I'm lean. If I do a lot of strength training during that time, I'm lean with muscles. In the off-season, I get fluffly. When I hit my head, I got more fluffly than normal, as my head healed, the fluf went away. My body seems to like the 118-121 range though. That's up from my lowest of 112-113 but I like this range better because I have less loose skin. I'd rather that my 118-121 be more muscular than it is right now but I don't really want to go lower than that.

Thanks that was good to hear I am trying not to obsess cuz hey I'm still nearly two hundred pounds down and my clothes still fit.I only worry cuz I would hate to be like its ok and then few pounds here and there and the next thing I know its fifty, I've heard too many stories of ppl gaining it all back and frankly that scares me