I've lost 35 lbs since late august and am about 7 lbs shy of my goal. I now weigh about 162 and am trying to get down to 155. Once I get down to my goal weight I plan to start adding foods back into my diet that I just cut out completely. For the past 4 months I haven't had anything high in calories whatsoever. No pizza, no nothing.

Once I get back to my goal weight, I'm going to start eating those foods again, but I'm going to continue my exercises. The thing is, at 155 and beint 6'0.5 I'm worried that if I lose any more weight I'm going to get into the unhealthy area the other way(too thin). I want to stay between 155-160 for the foreseeable future. My workouts are pretty thorough. I run an hour a day, lift weights, do pushups, crunches, and play sports.

How do I make sure I don't go below my goal weight? Will adding some of those foods like pizza, etc, back into my diet balance it out? Should I subtract things from my exercise routine so I don't burn too many calories? I never thought I'd worry about being too thin, but it has become a worry. How do I stay between 155-160?

Personally, I view losing weight as a lifestyle change. Since I know that junk food will pack on the pounds for me, I proactively choose to keep them from my eating plans. I wouldn't want to kick of the pebble that started the avalanche that brought back my weight.

'Course, you can also weigh yourself every day and when you see yourself climbing up to 160, get rid of the excess junk from your diet then.

Data points,

Barbara

Your body is probably going to resist going lower than that.

I think you're worrying about nothing. Get to your goal weight first.

Then, keep on eating healthy. If you drop to 152 (3 lbs below goal weight) then add more healthy calories.

How did you pick your goal weight and are you sure it's a reasonable number?

What I see all too often with people is that they get a number stuck in their head and have to get to that number... last time I checked, people didn't walk around with a sign posted to their forehead with their weight on it - no one has to know what that number is - so don't get stuck on getting to that number.

Judge by how you're feeling, how your clothes are fitting, what you are seeing in the mirror...

Truer words were never spoken, totally agree. That's been my experience now for the past few months.

Enjoy,

Barbara

hi:

I'm new in this forum and I read your post, How I can know when I'm loosing too much weight? Because when someone start with a diet and see results them you can continue and sometimes could be a problem for your health.

I agree with ExercisePhysio

It will take a bigger effort to keep a lower weight than the one you should have... So if when you get there you feel you can't stay there without keep on cutting calories, then maybe you should "let your body decide the weight you should have" =)

I think that you know when you are in the limit, because of the sensation that your body feel, or you can now that when people told you "ohh you are so tight" but I think that your mirror could tell you better

I agree. Good advice.

wow, this was an interesting question. I know I for damn sure have never been worried about losing too much weight. As long as I still have my breasts and am not fainting, then I would not even be thinking about losing too much weight. But this is a responsible question. I'm just not always the most reponsible person lol

anyway, if you want to make sure you are maintaining weight (not losing and not gaining) it's a matter of simple math. Burn the same amount of calories that you are eating and you will stay the same weight. A really good website to check your number of calories burned vs. consumed is fitday.com. It's free and I swear by it. It is my Bible, my Koran, my Torah, my Bhagavad Gita (sp?), all rolled into one. You just enter everything you eat and everything you did that day (and you can input EVERYTHING from showering to making the bed to driving to kissing, etc.)