supposed to maintain but still losing..

lyssa42528

I have lost 46lbs in about 5 months and hit my goal in December and have been pretty much been maintaining since then. this week is my TOM, and naturally I would feel hungrier sometimes and reach for snacks i normally would resist. I expected after a "snack binge", the scale would be up the next morning. instead the last two days I've been lower than the morning before. I know I'm not supposed to be losing any more weight but I'm not sure what else I can do. I've already tried increasing calories. right now my calorie goal is set to 1830 but I usually end up between 1500-1700. I workout the same as when I was losing, that is 6days/week for 60 minutes.

any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate!!

12by311

Eat more. Obviously the calories you are taking in aren't your maintenance cals if you are losing.

Sabine_Stroehm

Eat more. Right?

sijomial

QUESTION: Losing weight and don't want to be?
ANSWER: Eat more.

(Any reason you would struggle to eat more?)

victoria_1024

So am I understanding correct that your weight was lower for just two days? I mean you may need to eat more but I look more at trends not just two days on the scale. If you've been maintaining since December on these calories I would think it's just random fluctuations but if it continues to go down then definitely eat more!

MsBuzzkillington

You're eating less than the amount of calories it said you should be eating to hit maintenance? Eat more calories. Actually eat it all.

MichelleLea122

Has it been just these 2 days? It may just be your TOM. Personally I find my weight fluctuates a lot during this time due to hormones and water weight.

PAV8888

It is good to hear that over the past ~4 months you succeeded in increasing your calories to an average of 1500 to 1700 a day.

Your estimated sedentary maintenance level remains a bit higher that that, at 1830. You also have to account for the 60 minutes of elliptical x 6 times a week, plus your 20K, or so, steps a day.

20K steps a day, by themselves, constitute an activity level slightly higher than very active, as opposed to the sedentary level that 1830 represents.

To someone on the outside there is an obvious caloric gap and the solution is obvious:

--Stop exercising until you can increase your food intake sufficiently.
--Reduce your in-place walking and all other un-necessary activities until you can increase your food intake sufficiently.
--Ingest and absorb more calories (and use a trending weight application to monitor your weight level).

If large quantities of food present a problem for you, swap in full fat and real sugar options and swap out low fat and artificially sweetened "diet" options.

As mentioned by someone above, nuts and nut butters, pack a lot of calories in small packages.

Even though you are aware of these options, it appears that you have been only partially successful in implementing them these past few months.

To an outsider it becomes obvious that something inside you is holding you back.

Campus counselling, student health, your family doctor (or, if your family doctor is not an option, how about a doctor who is not known to the rest of your family and who you approach privately, on your own?) may all help get you started towards finding the additional help you may need to move forward.

ARGriffy

MichelleLei1 wrote: »

Has it been just these 2 days? It may just be your TOM. Personally I find my weight fluctuates a lot during this time due to hormones and water weight.

I can have 6 lb weight swing either way in the days of or surrounding tom, if you believe your calories counted are accurate you will be fine. If you actually have a downward trend (should be slow at low weight anyway) then yeah, eat more! !!

LivingtheLeanDream

Eat more so you stop losing....

chelseafxx

Eat more........

myfitnesspale3

Increase carbs and sugar to stimulate appetite.