does Maintenance period work for you ?

Fit_Lean_Priya

I want to shift to maintenance, but whenever i start eating more - i gain a size

Maintenance period is still rocket science for me

sijomial

You need to give some clues!
That's assuming you want guidance, if you just want to have a rant then go for it!!

What changes when you get to maintenance?
1/ Just a higher calorie allowance or are your "diet" foods different to your "maintenance" foods?
2/ Does your exercise change?
3/ Do you continue to log all your food?
4/ How long do you attempt to stabilise your weight before deciding it's not working?
5/ Do you jump straight to maintenance calories or do you step up calories slowly?
6/ Do you try to maintain one single weight number or do you have an acceptable range of maintenance weight?

By the way maintenance is mostly mathematics rather than rocket science.

Fit_Lean_Priya

You need to give some clues!
That's assuming you want guidance, if you just want to have a rant then go for it!!

What changes when you get to maintenance?
1/ Just a higher calorie allowance or are your "diet" foods different to your "maintenance" foods?
2/ Does your exercise change?
3/ Do you continue to log all your food?
4/ How long do you attempt to stabilise your weight before deciding it's not working?
5/ Do you jump straight to maintenance calories or do you step up calories slowly?
6/ Do you try to maintain one single weight number or do you have an acceptable range of maintenance weight?

By the way maintenance is mostly mathematics rather than rocket science.

1/ same food with extra servings

2/ No, my exercise don't change

3/ yes,i continue, but it actually increase from 1400 calories to 1900 calories

4/ around a week or 10 days

5/ yes i jump straight to maintenance calories

6/ nope, i am not a scale person, but i usually see in mirror and my clothes gets a bit tight, so i shift back to 1400 calories a day and loose weight


-- Thanks, i need to understand logic of this maths formula

sijomial

Not weighing yourself complicates things a bit as you are going by a "feel" for weight rather than actual weight.
It could be that simply feeling fuller and having a bit of a reefed bounce is making you feel/look bloated.
Although 500 cals doesn't sound much you are actually adding over a third more food than you have been getting used to. You are bound to feel different with a sudden change like that.

My suggestion would be to get back to goal weight/size and then add 100/day for the first week, add another 100/day on week two and continue to add slowly so that it takes 5 weeks to reach your maintenance calories.

You may drop a little under goal weight/size for a while but it would allow you to adjust mentally and physically to eating more.

Fit_Lean_Priya

good explanation, thanks for that