Maintain or Continue to Lose?

Run4UrHealth

Is anyone else afraid of reaching your goal and with your new healthy habits you will just continue to lose? I do not want to look sickly skinny because I don't think I will quit working out and eating better. I do not starve myself...I eat if I am hungry and make healthy choices. I have heard it is hard to maintain but has anyone tried to maintain and kept losing?

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ElizabethRoad

No. I track my calories and know that I'm getting enough to maintain.

newmooon56

gonna go out on a limb here and think no one ever dieted away to nothing.... that some set point takes over.
they say the last 10 is the hardest- why do I find it hard to believe the last 110 would be REALLLLLY hard to lose. Add 100 -200 calories and try maintaining. I almost find it funny to be honest that a person can find the will and self control to put the folk down- but then they are scared of not being able to figure out how to STAY healthy whether is means quit losing or simply maintaining.

russellma

You're going to have to gradually either add in calories or back off on exercise a little, or both.

When I started "maintenance" a few months ago, I did lose a few more pounds because going from losing to maintenance is a mental adjustment.

I gradually increased my daily calories by 50 calories or so every week or two until my weight stayed pretty consistent. I also decreased my exercise time slightly (from 40-45 min. 6 days/week to 35 min 5-6 days/week)

You can either go by your TDEE to give yourself a daily average for calories for your activity level or you can figure your daily maintenance calories for a sedentary or lightly active lifestyle and add in your exercise calories on the days that you workout.

I like the second one best and it's worked really well for keeping my weight at a pretty even keel.

Good luck!