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rileysowner

I understand your line of thought. I had the same sort of thinking in the past. Personally what it lead to was burnout and gaining the weight back. Being bent out of shape for 300-400 calories over when it doesn't even take you out of your calorie deficit, while understandable, is not sustainable for most people. What will happen when you have a stretch with no weight loss, or if you gain a pound or more, and yes that can happen even while maintaining your calorie deficit since 1) Weight loss is not linear and 2) Fat loss can be masked by things like water retention which can even raise your weight while fat is still coming off.

I applaud your determination and commitment. I do ask you to consider carefully what you are going to get worried about since the amount of worry you displayed over something that in the long term (and even in the short term) is pretty much nothing (a fraction of a pound at most) is not sustainable. There are too many ups and downs in the weight loss journey.

jaysanchez4

rileysowner wrote: »

I understand your line of thought. I had the same sort of thinking in the past. Personally what it lead to was burnout and gaining the weight back. Being bent out of shape for 300-400 calories over when it doesn't even take you out of your calorie deficit, while understandable, is not sustainable for most people. What will happen when you have a stretch with no weight loss, or if you gain a pound or more, and yes that can happen even while maintaining your calorie deficit since 1) Weight loss is not linear and 2) Fat loss can be masked by things like water retention which can even raise your weight while fat is still coming off.

I applaud your determination and commitment. I do ask you to consider carefully what you are going to get worried about since the amount of worry you displayed over something that in the long term (and even in the short term) is pretty much nothing (a fraction of a pound at most) is not sustainable. There are too many ups and downs in the weight loss journey.

Thank You for this, i guess i'm just paranoid about gaining a pound or two back when it was so hard to lose it in the first place. I did notice my weight loss has drastically slowed down, it might be due to the fact that i've been fighting bronchitis and my eating pattern/exercise routine isn't how it was a few weeks back.

Thanks for the reminder, i'll definitely try to relax a bit more during this whole process and not be so paranoid. I eat clean maybe 90% of the time, and 99.9% of the time i haven't been going over my calories other than yesterday so it's a new feeling for me, i feel guilty and upset about it; although after reading your explanation i do understand better now.

Thank You very much,

I have a big buffet dinner on Sunday that i'm worried about, any tips? Maybe eat less the whole day?

Thanks Again everyone!

xmichaelyx

This is why I don't bother eating back my calories. My workout schedule is the same every week, so all I had to do was figure out what my real maintenance number was (using TDEE as a starting point, but then perfecting by actually counting calories for a few weeks).

When I want to lose, I eat a little under. When I want to gain, I eat a little over. I adjust as necessary periodically.

Once you start counting calories, everything just falls into place, and manipulating your weight is ridiculously easy. (Although manipulating your hunger may or may not be easy.)

jaysanchez4

xmichaelyx wrote: »

This is why I don't bother eating back my calories. My workout schedule is the same every week, so all I had to do was figure out what my real maintenance number was (using TDEE as a starting point, but then perfecting by actually counting calories for a few weeks).

When I want to lose, I eat a little under. When I want to gain, I eat a little over. I adjust as necessary periodically.

Once you start counting calories, everything just falls into place, and manipulating your weight is ridiculously easy. (Although manipulating your hunger may or may not be easy.)

so when you say maintenance number, you mean the number the MFP automatically calculates for you based on the information you log in?

I'm 30, 5'10 and 205lbs and it calculated me at 1680 calories a day.