Weight maintenance when lost the weight unhealthily.

madison151992

I lost weight eating maybe 700-900 calories a day, I wasn't intentionally eating that much, I was just depressed and eating very little. I don't want to lose anymore weight though and am wondering the best way to increase to maintenance calories without just gaining a lot of weight.

I am female, 60kg and 160cm (5'3)

deannalfisher

what is your current weight?

your probably going to want to slowly increase calories until you figure out your maintenance - I'd start at 1200 a day (since that is the recommended minimum for women) - do that for a couple of weeks, log weight and then adjust

madison151992

Sorry, I did mention it, it's 60 kg, so nowhere near underweight or anything.

Fuzzipeg

I agree 1200 calories could be a good place to start. I hope you are feeling much better in yourself already. I hope you will be able to work your way up to 1200 for the immediate term. If you can improve your nutritional balance with foods you really like, as you are working towards this target you should start to feel real benefits in your well being too. As this starts to happen you may well find yourself being able/wanting to do more and this extra activity will help you move your calorie goal upwards as you seek your natural maintenance. As your well being increases maybe you could try re-composition, to tone as you go. (I'm not the best person to consult on this)

Congratulations. All the very best.

sijomial

Walk your calories up week by week, but would make the first couple of weeks a substantial jump when you are eating at such a low level. You can manually adjust your calorie goal.

Try to remember that fast changes in weight tend to be water related, changes in fat and muscle are slow - don't get freaked out by sudden variations on your scales and over-react by jumping back into a huge deficit.