let's hear it for maintainenance

WAHMto5

Great thread! Close to maintence so trying to get it figured out. Just started to slowly up my calories.

aliciab307

For everyone that has gotten to their goal or in maintenance, once you hit your goal did you just drastically up your cals or did you up it gradually until you stopped losing weight? Did any of you use any calculation websites for reference of your TDEE? If you upped it gradually, how much did you up it to and how long did you keep at that level before upping again? thanks

jsd_135

bump

LaurnWhit

Bump!

Lyssa62

YAY I'm there.!!!

Deipneus

I would like to hear from some folks who are maintaining their weight loss and how it is going. After all, it is not simply about losing .

I've been on maintenance since last May. This was my second go around. The first time I blew maintenance because I thought I'd crossed some kind of finish line. I found out that for me, there is no finish line.

For some people, logging food is a temporary thing and that's fine since we are all different. For me, I think logging food is forever if I want to maintain.

I wrote a whole blog on this subject recently. http://bit.ly/maintainweightloss

StefPayne

I hit my goal last November and have stayed within a couple of pounds of it since then. Due to an injury, I had to stop all exercise three weeks after maintenance so I didn't increase calories. I am now exercising half of what I was while I was losing and I am eating maintenance calories that MFP has set for me. I struggled with it at first, mentally, because of not being able to exercise, but now I am doing great. I love the way that I look and feel and cannot imagine going back to the old me

saltedcaramel86

I've been on maintenance for a few months at 133lbs but the scales seem to have dropped down to 130lbs in the last few weeks. MFP had me at 1810 but now that I've introduced strength training, I've upped my calories to 2000 and see how I get on. I'm trying to make a more concious effort to hit my calorie goal as I wasn't always before.

swagtier

bump for later

Mita19

bump.....for later

mumx5

Bump to read later

soniabogonia

Thanks for sharing your stories!!!

PrimalSiren

I've been maintaining for a year now. I follow the paleo/primal lifestyle and since I've switched I've been able to maintain without even thinking about it. It's great. I no longer have to constantly count calories or think about every little thing that goes into my mouth. I don't have to log hours of jogging and/or cardio to feel like I won't gain. It really is effortless for me. I will log calories on occasion to see where my macros are. If I'm working out a bit more heavy then I adjust my ratios accordingly.

A_Fit_Mom

Bump to read later ..only 9 more pounds for me.

JenNuma

Bumping for when I have more time.