Hard time with maintaining

emma722mfp

Hi I am a 21 year old female, about a year ago I lost 28 pounds. I dropped from 135 to 107 and I am 5'1. For the last 6 months I've had such an easy time with maintenance. Usually I try to eat healthy during the week and cheat on the weekends. I am somewhat active, I am a college student so I walk a lot but only go to the gym 2-3 times per week. Mfp says I should eat 1530 for maintenance and I normally eat 1300 during the week and more on the weekends. For a while this was working great, but ash of recently I've been slowly putting on 3 pounds over the last month and a half. I know 3 pounds isn't a lot but It is scaring me. I also don't want to only eat 1300 cals a day for the rest of my life,but every time I try to increase my weight shoots up even more and usually goes back down. However it has not been going back down recently.

Georgia422016

make sure you increase the calories at a really slow rate and see if that helps, maybe add 50-100cal and stay on that for 3-4 weeks then up it again

nxd10

I gain a few pounds and lose it in the spring - did it every year for 40 years. It was because I was walking less in the cold and eating more. Log for a week or two and see if you have extra calories.

mom2ava07

I have no advice but I'm in a similar situation. I was maintaining easily for several months and suddenly I started gaining. I'm up about 5 lbs which isn't drastic, but odd considering I haven't slacked up on my logging one bit or increased my calories from what I easily maintained on before. It's odd.

LivingtheLeanDream

Sometimes we can undo our whole weeks deficit in one 'cheat' day.