What happens when you get to goal

l_beal

Do you get more calories once at goal?

Melville1581

I would imagine that you would then eat a bit more calories to maintain your goal weight

kommodevaran

There is no goal, just goal weight. You get to eat a couple of hundred more calories per day, but you'll practically be doing the same as when you were losing.

JeromeBarry1

They hang a wreath on your door and wear black.

Meelisv

Reevaluate and set another one. That another one can be either lose some more, maintain or even gain some (build muscle mass for example)

PAV8888

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

They hang a wreath on your door and wear black.

So true!

JeanCricket

Yes. I gradually increased mine until I stopped losing weight. My number was 1600.

middlehaitch

The commentator on tv shouts goooooaaaal really loud. Oh no, that is scoring a goal in European soccer.

When you reach goal re set your MFP account, adjust to your goal weight and change from lose ?lbs a week to maintain.
You can go into your account and do a dummy run so you can see what your calories will be.

Once you know your new calorie goal, start upping your calories.
If you do it slowly over a few weeks you will only get a small gain of water, and food in transit. If you up your calories all at once you may get a jump in weight of ~5lbs. This is just the increase in food transiting and water retention.

Neither method is right or wrong, it is just being mentally prepared for the scale going up and knowing it will come down.

Some people lose an extra couple of pounds just to take the weight fluctuation into account.

Once you are at goal your maintenance calories may well be different that those MFP gave you as that is an average, take the time to play around and find what is the correct intake for you.

A lot of people like to give themselves a range, mine is 5 lbs and I generally sit in the middle of it. Others have up to 10 lbs especially if hormonal fluctuations need to be considered.

Do keep logging until you are comfortable in maintainence. Then you can decide whether you have to continue logging, or are confident to maintain not logging, or doing a hybrid version of logging.

Cheers, h.

nowine4me

You hang on by your toes for about a year, then you get the hang of it.

psychod787

kommodevaran wrote: »

There is no goal, just goal weight. You get to eat a couple of hundred more calories per day, but you'll practically be doing the same as when you were losing.

Yes, preach it!

middlehaitch

nowine4me wrote: »

You hang on by your toes for about a year, then you get the hang of it.

That is sooo true.
I think it was 6 month before I was confident and thought- yes I've got it those last, slooowww, 5 lbs really are gone and this is what I eat.

8 years later, no counting, I just do a night time tally of my protein and have a shake if I am short.

Cheers, h.

LivingtheLeanDream

nowine4me wrote: »

You hang on by your toes for about a year, then you get the hang of it.

^^ yep

and not sure why the woo!! people still haven't got the hang of the woo button being negative obviously!

l_beal

Thanks everyone

cwolfman13

If you want to maintain you eat maintenance calories for you weight and stats and activity...if you kept eating your deficit calories, you'd keep losing weight...

lorrpb

If you're losing slowly at the end, .5 week or so, then you don't get many more calories in maintenance. I was losing so slowly I finally just stopped losing when I reached that delicate CI=CO maintenance balance. I stopped logging a long time ago, and I would say I have a couple more treats now than I used to, but it's also very easy to regain a "few" pounds (not fluctuation pounds) so I still have to be watchful.

WilmaValley

Excellent suggestions, needed to hear this, thanks!!!

apullum

middlehaitch wrote: »

nowine4me wrote: »

You hang on by your toes for about a year, then you get the hang of it.

That is sooo true.
I think it was 6 month before I was confident and thought- yes I've got it those last, slooowww, 5 lbs really are gone and this is what I eat.

8 years later, no counting, I just do a night time tally of my protein and have a shake if I am short.

Cheers, h.

I'm about 6 months into maintenance and I think I'm just getting to that level of confidence. I've only now stopped seeing relatively big water weight fluctuations as I've settled into my new routine.

Don't be surprised if the scale bounces around for a while as you readjust your calories. I use Happy Scale to track trends rather than relying on just daily weight readings.

CarvedTones

lorrpb wrote: »

If you're losing slowly at the end, .5 week or so, then you don't get many more calories in maintenance. I was losing so slowly I finally just stopped losing when I reached that delicate CI=CO maintenance balance. I stopped logging a long time ago, and I would say I have a couple more treats now than I used to, but it's also very easy to regain a "few" pounds (not fluctuation pounds) so I still have to be watchful.

I am about to do a variation of this. My goal is the new upper end of my range, so I really want to lose a few more. But I don't want to continue at my current pace; I am losing over a half pound per week at this point.

I want to get to 5-7 pounds under goal, but not in a hurry (partly because I am a little afraid of maintenance). I calculated estimated TDEE at 5, 10 and 15 pounds below goal for sedentary to see how much it adjusted for 5 pound increments, which is only 27 calories. This is why maintenance scares me; if I set my daily 54 calories too high, I would slowly gain 10 pounds (hopefully, I would pay attention and adjust before that). I am going to start at 100 under estimated maintenance for 15 under at sedentary, track that for a while and be sure I am still losing, and adjust again when I get about 4 pounds under, which will hopefully take a while.

I have lost all this weight before and gained it back, which is why I fear maintenance. When I started dieting, i couldn't wait for it to be over. Now I want to delay that as long as possible.