The transition from losing weight to maintaining weight?
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I'm also interested in this as I'm 2.5lbs off maintenance. I'm interested to know if anyone still follows diet cals in week (I'm on 1200), but eats as they please at weekends? I ask this because I find the weekends do difficult. After working all week I want to relax & enjoy my weekends, which may include socialising at the pub or going for meals out. I find it so hard to keep within a calorie goal & can easily consume double of what I'm supposed to! I'm considering sticking to around 1300 4/5 days a week & then the other 2/3 days not worrying what I have. Does anyone else do this, or do you think it will work long term? I find eating 1200 easy during the week, it is enough & with work keeping me busy, I have a good routine going.0
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I have a question, all of you that are maintaining are you eating back your exercise calories or just sticking with the number range you mentioned!?! I am getting close to the maintenance zone and noticing I am already loosing my focus and drive0
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I'm also interested in this as I'm 2.5lbs off maintenance. I'm interested to know if anyone still follows diet cals in week (I'm on 1200), but eats as they please at weekends? I ask this because I find the weekends do difficult. After working all week I want to relax & enjoy my weekends, which may include socialising at the pub or going for meals out. I find it so hard to keep within a calorie goal & can easily consume double of what I'm supposed to! I'm considering sticking to around 1300 4/5 days a week & then the other 2/3 days not worrying what I have. Does anyone else do this, or do you think it will work long term? I find eating 1200 easy during the week, it is enough & with work keeping me busy, I have a good routine going.
i kinda done this all way thru my weight loss and it works for me0 -
Forgot to add..one of the hardest things for me after I got down to my goal weight was motivation. I had tons of motivation while losing...at my goal weight I lost it and took it too far down past maintenance and then rebounded. I now have maintenance goals i.e. do more pushups, run a specific race...etc..something not weight based as motivators.
I fell right off the wagon when I reached my goals. I actually got a little despondent about the whole thing. I'd been lifting for 6 years and I had a totally new body...reached my goal bf%, pant size, and almost my goal weight. Now I've taken almost a month and wasted it doing nothing! :P Definitely keep coming up with new goals. My problem is getting bored, so I have to keep up with creating new workouts and different ways of training.
Maintenance means eating more of the same healthy foods. If you want to put on muscle mass, you have to eat a little more, maybe 100-300 extra calories a day while lifting hard 3-5 days a week. That means really fatiguing your muscles with each set and staying away from long bouts of cardio which stop genes that make you grow.0 -
Thank you all so much for your replies!! I have a lot of information to work with now, so I am going to put together some new goals and stuff today!!!0
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bumping. Hopefully, I'll need this soon.0
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