Maintaining weight-loss

melissa10666
melissa10666 Posts: 63
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
After completing 30 Day Shred, if I eat my maintainance calorie allowance, will the inches I lost stay off? Or will I have to keep doing the workouts to keep the results?

Please help!

Melissa xx

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  • suziecue66
    suziecue66 Posts: 1,312 Member
    Your maintenance calorie allowance will be lower without exercise. If you exercise you can eat more to maintain.

    http://calorieline.com/tools/tdee
    enter your details
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    If you eat and gain then it isnt maintenance now is it? You dont need to exercise to lose fat, just makes it easier to keep off.
  • chowells78
    chowells78 Posts: 17
    thanks for posting I was wondering the same thing.
    Congratulations on the inch loss.
    I'm hoping to restart the 30 day shred real soon.
  • teez52
    teez52 Posts: 104 Member
    If you want to maintain, you'll have to eat back whatever calories you burn during the exercise. Otherwise, if you don't exercise, if you eat at maintenance you'll stick to the same spot on the scale...technically. I however would keep working out because to keep in shape that's what needs to happen, if you stop working out, muscle will begin to disappear over time.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    If you want to maintain, you'll have to eat back whatever calories you burn during the exercise. Otherwise, if you don't exercise, if you eat at maintenance you'll stick to the same spot on the scale...technically. I however would keep working out because to keep in shape that's what needs to happen, if you stop working out, muscle will begin to disappear over time.

    Studies also show that people who exercise are more likely to keep the weight loss off long term.
  • suziecue66
    suziecue66 Posts: 1,312 Member
    If you want to maintain, you'll have to eat back whatever calories you burn during the exercise. Otherwise, if you don't exercise, if you eat at maintenance you'll stick to the same spot on the scale...technically. I however would keep working out because to keep in shape that's what needs to happen, if you stop working out, muscle will begin to disappear over time.

    Studies also show that people who exercise are more likely to keep the weight loss off long term.

    Exactly, because everyone is bound to over-eat and exercise keeps you maintaining rather than gaining over time. It compensates for the extra calories consumed.
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