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I have done something very close to what you are trying to do. It took me about a year.
I am 54 and 5'10". Started out a bit lighter at ~275-280.
I used myfitnesspal and aimed for a 2 pound loss...

I have been dieting for about 6 weeks. Dropped my weight from 188 to 173. I am 5'10" so I think I am not far off my ideal weight. I am just starting to feel the effects of my metabolism being down...

168.7
Couldn't control my eating.

No change from last week at 166.7
I think 2200kcals is too much. So I will drop by another 200 starting today. I was hoping to now have to go to 1800kcals again but I might end up there in few...

166.7

Today is my last day at what I think is maintenance (~2500kcals). I had hoped to rid myself of two different problems. Freezing cold hands and dry itching skin on my back.
After 4 weeks on...

169.1
I am fully glycogenated because I eat a load of chocolate covered sorbet thingies from costco.
Eating more doesn't seem to be helping me get rid of the problems. Cold hands seem to be still...

Well my two weeks at maintenance seem to have failed. I still have the freezing cold hands and the itchy skin that signals down regulated thyroid hormones.
After my initial binging my weight is...

I had this. I take HCTZ for BP. A few mistakes you can make are:
Not drinking enough water especially if you take a diuretic (HCTZ). I got some constipation from this.
I needed to not have too low...

Thanks for that input. I think I will run out the second week at 2200 kcals unless I see weight gain. The trend after the initial up caused by binging appears to be down now (164.2, 166.5, 168.1,...

We some things went wrong but I wouldn't have changed them.
The stall in weight loss in Dec-Jan was caused by my father becoming terminally ill. So I went to look after him. Unfortunately at the...

Mmm. Didn't expect that. I am not imaging I need to loose another 10-20lbs. Might even be more based on how I thought I would have been done ages ago.
I have been fat all my life so taking pictures...

Are you saying my choice of 2200 cals is too much? Honestly I approached this question purely as 'how to correct the cold hands thing' but I added the background of how I got here and were I want to...

That doesn't make sense in the context of the question. Lyle maintains you can up-regulate thyroid hormones in two weeks at maintenance. This is to get rid of the freezing cold hands problem.
I am...

I have Lyle's flexible diet book. He seems to separate the re-feeds from the full diet break. I have never done a re-feed. He has said in one of his more recent interviews that he thinks that...

Hi,
I am 90+ pounds lost over I guess the last year. I was eating about 1800k / day. I am 53 and 5'10" 164lbs.
About the only thing I didn't like about the whole process was that I hated the...

168.2
This jump is me trying to eat at maintenance for 2 weeks. Eating more was actually quite hard and I binged on chocolate raisins on the first couple of days. Having got the raisin problem out...

Thanks for that. I should look at getting some. Probably haven't eaten one for a decade or more.

A couple of years ago I started eating some kind of bean as part of my breakfast. I was in the 270lbs range. I kind of started doing this for some other reason but I found it gave me a bit more...

Blew my week eating twice my allowed calories last Saturday.
164.2

I am in.
Starting at 164.2 and shooting for a 6 pound loss to 158.2.