How to maintain my weight properly?

manningania
manningania Posts: 52 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
I read that in order to maintain I should consume 1462 calories per day (I am 96 lbs) and I walk on the treadmill for an hour and a half each day at 3.1 mph with 10% incline which apparently burns 330. During the weekdays I consume 1500 calories believing that I burnt off 300 that day and on weekends is when I eat 2300 per day (900 extra because I saved up the 260 from the 1460). This week was my first time trying it and I gained a pound did I do something wrong? How do I maintain while saving extra calories for the weekend?

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    So where did you read you need 1462 calories? Is that from your MFP calculation or from a different (possibly TDEE) site?

    A pound difference is totally insignificant in a day let alone a week - a large glass of water would do that!
    Whatever you do you will need to do it at least a month to get any trend.

    (BTW - all that walking on a treadmill sounds dreadfully dull, isn't there something more interesting or varied you could do?)

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