Question for people who've reached or are nearing goal

BernadetteChurch

Can someone please tell me what happens to your calories once you get to your goal weight? Does your daily allowance change as you get closer to your goal? And when you reach goal does it increase for maintenance purposes? Just curious really!

TheVimFuego

I'll eat pretty much as I do now, I don't feel deprived or hungry and energy is good.

I'll probably give myself some carb leeway here and there but nothing major.

A few pints of real ale will go down nicely ...

BerryH

Can someone please tell me what happens to your calories once you get to your goal weight? Does your daily allowance change as you get closer to your goal? And when you reach goal does it increase for maintenance purposes? Just curious really!

If you use MFP's automatically calculated calorie intake, it will recalculate your intake to be slightly lower every 10 lbs or so.

If your goals are to lose more than 1lb a week, change them to this when you're within 20lbs or so, and for the last 10lbs make it 0.5lb a week. Once you reach goal, you will need to change your MFP goal to maintenance.

Starla_

when you change to maintenance after hitting goal your calories calculated by mfp will increase as you arent eating to lose weight.

BernadetteChurch

Thanks everyone. I've still got a little way to go before this will be an issue, but it's good to know what MFP has in store for me!

darrensurrey

Given that I'm not logging weight but looking at the mirror, I'll adjust my intake up. Or I might only calorie count every other week with a deficit and see how things go.

Or I might start bulking up.