If you are maintaining.....

bethdris

I've been on maintainance for a few weeks now. I think overall Im doing pretty well. I am never close to using all mycalories because I still work out 6x a week. My daily food cals are 1850 and I usually burn in the 400ish range (on average). I try not to care what is leftover at the end of the night.

Do you have a lot of uneaten cals most of the week?

erickirb

No, maybe over or under by 100-200 any given day. If you don't get all your cals (including exercise cals) you should still be losing weight, not maintaining. If you are not losing and are coming in under your total cals then your maintenance is probably lower than what MFP has calculated for you.

Helice

No. i seem to go over my calorie goal every day, even if i dont binge, and i do eat healthy..
Things just have so many calories in them.... Its like how does anyone eat when a sandwich is like 600 calories..
Every day i have to spend hours getting back into my net calorie goal.
It sucks!

bethdris

What I have "lost" isnt' anything note worthy...a few ounces. I think MFP may have my maintainance cals to high.

somigliana

I continued to lose weight for a while, with MFP set to sedentary and eating all my exercise calories. I set my activity level to lightly active plus exercise calories and that seemed to work. Maintenance takes a bit of tweaking here and there to see what works for you.

But... I eventually found that I was hungry on non-exercise days (especially the day after heavy weight lifting) and too full on exercise days, so I wanted to even out my calorie intake. I took an average of my weekly exercise calories, then added it back into my custom daily calorie goal. So now my fixed daily goal is around 2200 calories. It works for me, but you may prefer to take a different approach. I think maintenance is all about making this system part of your lifestyle so that it's a habit, not a chore

Good luck!!