Question for those who are maintaining

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  • NikkiSixGuns
    NikkiSixGuns Posts: 630 Member
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    I exercise less often, but more effectively than when I was losing.

    While losing I mostly walked (@ 45 minutes/day) and did a very small amount of resistance training. Immediately afterward I did lots of cardio (water aerobics, biking, DVDs, etc.) every day for around an hour. These days I lift weights three days a week and that's it for intentional exercise.
  • pwittek10
    pwittek10 Posts: 723 Member
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    My main work out is walking.
    I have been on maintance for over a year now.
    My weight stays in a 7 pound window.
    I am 5'2 and I weight 119, I want to stay at 117.
    I got was low as 112 but at my age, 61, it was not good.
    I t is very hard to keep the weight off,
    when my weight is "up" I walk more
    When I work it comes off,
    I work for schools so we have a lot of time off.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    I'm actually exercising more. I am quite a bit older now, so my metabolism is slower.
    But, when I first lost? I kept up my exercise. For two reasons:

    1. I was already and avid exerciser (weights and cycling back then) before I lost weight.

    2. I figured my diet would slip from time to time, but I could stay consistent with my workouts.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    I hit my goal the beginning of this month after changing my lifestyle in January, 2012. Actually I am 2 pounds below goal. I'm 5' 3.5" and am at 113 pounds - which I know is still "acceptable" for my height and frame. I still go to the gym 5 days a week, 1 zumba class and 1 yoga class. I just started using myfitnesspal last week and can't understand why crunches, planks, weighted exercises, etc. "don't count" as calories burned. Plus after I enter my food for the day, it keeps telling me that continuing to eat/workout as recorded will take me down to 105 by mid-September - which is not where I want to be. Any suggestions for maintaining?

    eat more!
  • ctinawilson
    ctinawilson Posts: 127 Member
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    Up the weights! Everyone seems in agreement that this is the way to reduce body fat and you wont necessarily lose weight in the process, but you'll lose inches.

    I use 8 & 12kg kettlebells currently 3 times a week, as well as one cardio session and lots of walking (i'm 5'3 and 118lbs) - my bodyfat is reducing but the scale remains the same :)
  • sagreenious
    sagreenious Posts: 64 Member
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    People who keep weight off exercise, on average, an hour five days a week.

    Really? Well my walk to and from work is 24 minutes each way, and then I cycle into town in Saturdays to get the food shop, and I go running 3 times a week. Nice to know i'm doing more than needed!
  • worldsbestauntie
    worldsbestauntie Posts: 280 Member
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    Up the weights! Everyone seems in agreement that this is the way to reduce body fat and you wont necessarily lose weight in the process, but you'll lose inches.

    I JUST started in with the 8lb weights and am not fully used to them yet! I don't think I am ready to up the weights more just yet!
  • bikinisuited
    bikinisuited Posts: 881 Member
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    I joined mfp to tackle 10 pound I gained over a year a half, now soon to be 41yo and 5'1. This has been quite a journey for me. I was burning calories as much as I was eating 9-12 months ago. Finally these past 4 months I have made significant progress in losing 5 lbs. Well, I have the last 5 lbs and I was celebrating 102.6 for 4 days straight loaded on carbs yesterday and out of my sruprize 105.4.

    I have had several knee injuries during this weigh loss n I am not able to exercise until I completely heal. I used to be a cardio queen, injured myself and gained and lost 5 lbs.

    Trying really hard to focus on DIET alone. Deleted many friends unsupportive as I was not meeting my deficit at 1300 calories for 9-12 months.

    I will definitely hope to nail these last 5 pounds and going to be EXTRA careful during the holidays as these was my biggest calorie consumption based on my speadsheet weigh-ins..
  • balancedbrunette
    balancedbrunette Posts: 530 Member
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    I'm also in similar position to you, i'm at my desired weight now however there is still a bit of fat i want to reduce, working on changing my body comp in other words. I have upped my calories to maintenance on weight training days and the other days i eat at a small deficit, just the way i'm doing it for now..hope to loose further inches on my tummy.

    For me i've kept up the exercise since moving to maintenance, while loosing i exercised at minimum 3 days a week, for me this was mainly julian michaels workouts and then the odd walk here and there. now i'm doing JM twice a week and have started a new strength training class that is once a week, i hope to up my bodyweight workouts though.

    Best advice is to start strength training, for me that just started with buying dumbells and performing exercies at home, its a step in the right direction! :)

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