How accurate is MFP for your maintenance?

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,811 Member
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    I have to eat about 300 cals a day less than all the various calculators suggest. :ohwell:

    (Same when I was losing weight.)
  • fificrazy
    fificrazy Posts: 234
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    I am currently ready to switch to maintenance (so done with extreme deficits) and I am terrified of gaining it all back.

    Unless you only lost 2 lbs, there's no way you'd gain it ALL back overnight or over a series of weeks before you could catch it and adjust your eating/activity. :P There's one thing I think we can all take away from MFP whether we're losing, lost, or not having any success at all and that's awareness!

    Give yourself 2-3 weeks to follow your maintenance amounts and following your hunger cues. Just a short experimental grace period to witness how accurate your maintenance amounts are for you.

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