Trying to eat at maintenance & failing

Jamesb2405

I have been trying to eat at maintenance & not succeeding for the past 3 weeks. Using a TDEE I set my goal and began, at 17,100 a week (was 15,600 prior for 0.5 - 1ibs lost per week).

After 2 weeks my average weight was dropping still by the same amount. So I increased to 17,650 and I've still lost on my average.

I'm getting itchy feet and want to increase again but I don't want to overshoot. Should I keep at it for another week encase things even out or make another small increase now?

jan110144

You might want to consider posting this to the 'maintaining weight' topic. There are a lot of experienced maintainers there who can give you some direction. I have been in maintenance for 4 months now. Struggled to figure out just what to do and found the threads in that topic helpful and you always get some good suggestions if you have maintenance questions.

sijomial

What's to lose with experimenting by increasing now?

Even if you get into a small surplus and slowly start to gain - so what?
You would just simply reduce your calories again.

You have the rest of your life to maintain around goal weight and will no doubt have to adjust your eating many times in the future as circumstances change. It's not realistic to expect your weight and your calories to be a flat line all way. The more you experiment the less intimidating it becomes.