How much will I gain from eating over my maintain calories?

Marissabella3

Hello,
I am currently a 5 ft tall female who weighs 102.8 lbs. I am pretty happy with my body right now, though I do feel like I have some flub I want to get rid of - so I am trying to get down to 95-98 lbs. I started losing weight about a month ago. My start weight was 111 lbs, and I lost the little bit by eating 1500 calories, then walking the treadmill for 2-3 hours each night. Lately, I have been slacking off and eating more while only walking the treadmill for 1 hour. For the past three days, I ate 1500- 1800 calories and haven't worked out. My waist went from about 24 inches to 25 1/2 inches. How much permanent weight will I gain from doing this?

WinoGelato

What are your maintenance calories, your TDEE? If you know that, you should be able to calculate this yourself.

Have you been using MFP to track the calories you eat and your exercise burns while you were losing? Did you lose the 8 lbs in a month?

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WinoGelato

Marissabella3 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply! Yes, about a month from today. I have tried so many of the BMR calculators, and almost every one comes up with a different number. I was consistent in eating 1500, then burning off 300-450 on the treadmill every day.

BMR is the amount of calories you would burn if you were bedridden. It's not a great baseline from which to set your calorie goals.

What does MFP give you for a calorie goal if you enter your stats with a 0.5 lb/week weight loss (appropriate for your target)? If you do that, and then enter your exercise in, you should have an idea about if you will lose/gain/maintain.

Also, have you considered staying at current weight but focusing on strength training for body recomposition? A lot of people at healthy weights find that gives them the desired body, rather than trying to get to a particular scale weight...

hoovhome

One pound equals 3500 kcals, so once you determine your maintenance calories with consistent exercise, for every 3500 calories you consume, you will gain 1 pound. So, if you are entering your every morsel into MFP and you gain 1 pound in 1 week, you could take the average calories for that week, deduct 3500 and divide by 7 to get your maintenance calories for a similar week of eating/exercising.

erinc5

Weight gain is never permanent. Just adjust your calories again and you will lose what you have gained.