Using my future calorie maintenence to lose weight?

GalaxyGraves

Would this work?

I was thinking that if I work out what my maintenance calorie intake would be of my goal weight, then start eating that calorie intake now, that I would loose weight until my goal then stop there.

Clawsal

It would work but it would also take a long time.

If I did that now I would have a 250 cal deficit and lose 1/2 pound a week (I am 40 pounds away from my goal weight). And when I got 20 pounds from the goal weight I would have a 109 cal deficit which means it would take me one month to lose a pound. The last few pounds would just take ages...

So you can definitely do it if you are a patient person

Gamliela

I started that way. Then I lowered my goal weight and found my weight loss was so slow I was not motivatd to continue. So I now eat about 200 to 400 less cals per day than my goal weight maintenance will be. I'm old so its pretty low even when I do a bit of excersize.

vespiquenn

Depending on how much you weigh, it's possible that the only difference between your eventual maintenance calories and the calories necessary to lose weight at this time is 100-150 calories. So you will see a very, very slow loss. It is doable, as long as you're willing to accept the slow process.

benevempress

All of the above, and also that while you are in those months and months of 100 calorie deficit, you will have to be extremely precise in your weighing of food and database choices because it is VERY easy to eat 100 calories more than you think on any given day.