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reverse dieting questions

knot_enough
knot_enough Posts: 176 Member
edited February 20 in Health and Weight Loss
if you've done it (successfully) how long did you do it for?

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  • FIT_Goat
    FIT_Goat Posts: 4,227 Member
    I'm not actually doing reserve dieting, strictly as I think you're talking about it, but my general diet plan looks like reverse dieting. Basically, as I approach my goal weight, I am gradually shrinking my deficit. Every 5 pounds I lose, I add about 150 calories a day to what I aim to eat. I adjust it up or down depending on my average TDEE (which hasn't really varied all that much).

    The ideal is that I will eventually approach my goal and my maintenance calories at the same time. So, when I am done, I don't have to make any major adjustments. It does mean that losing the last kg will take almost three times as long as the current kg I am working on losing... but, it's not a race.
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