How long should I stay at maintenance before I cut? EM2WL

yoyoyo15

Hello everyone! I have FINALLY reached maintenance with EM2WL. I worked my way up very slowly. I have been here for two weeks now. I was wondering how long everyone stayed at maintenance before they were capable of losing again?

heybales

Depends on how much abuse you threw at your body for how long, and how well did you actually estimate TDEE.

Considering in one study where they were at almost 50% deficit for only 3 months from a lab measured TDEE, and after another 3 months eating at new suppressed TDEE, they had only increased their metabolism by 50% (was suppressed 500 cal, raised to being suppressed only 250 cal) of what it could be, 2 weeks may not be near long enough.

yoyoyo15

heybales wrote: »

Depends on how much abuse you threw at your body for how long, and how well did you actually estimate TDEE.

Considering in one study where they were at almost 50% deficit for only 3 months from a lab measured TDEE, and after another 3 months eating at new suppressed TDEE, they had only increased their metabolism by 50% (was suppressed 500 cal, raised to being suppressed only 250 cal) of what it could be, 2 weeks may not be near long enough.

Thank you. I wasn't sure. I have been working on slowly upping my calories since July and have eaten what is calculated as my maintenance for two weeks now though and have not been gaining. I will stay here at maintenance for a while to get my body to trust me again. Thanks again!