Struggling to maintain

Mummyadams

Hi all, I am struggling with this maintenance thing.
I try to eat around 1500 a day (a little less on rest days) and am 80% Primal but can feel my size creeping up again.
Crossfit 2 x week and lift / Hiit 3 x week.
I just cannot find my balance and am worried I am undoing all my hard work over th epast year.
I don't weigh myself but I am getting flabby again.
Maybe I should go super strict for a few months?

TavistockToad

what are your height and weight? 1500 isnt a massive amount of cals so i doubt you are gaining fat.

i had a look in your diary but you arent logging at the moment? i hope thats the case and you arent just eating whats in there?

m1311

When I hit my goal weight, I stopped logging for a while. I don't know whether that's what you've done, and if so, how you know what your intake is, but I can tell you that I started to gain weight steadily. I didn't really have a feeling for how to eat without logging and maintain. Now, six months after getting back on, I am starting to figure out when I'm full, and when I really need to put more calories in. I think that by the end of this summer, I might be able to just eat healthy food without logging.

So it might be that you're underestimating what you eat...or...if it's really only 1500, that your body is feeling deprived and is hanging on to every last calorie.

Or...another idea: maybe you have too much sugar or processed food (also sugar/low fiber) in your diet. Check out Robert Lustig's "Fat Chance" (book), or his YouTube video, "Sugar: the Bitter Truth." He shows how eating all the food available to us, with so much sugar, sends any excess calories straight to our fat cells. It makes SO much sense, both on an individual basis and on a societal basis. All we have to do is look around at the size of people in our country, and we can see that something has gone really wrong. He takes the blame off those who are overweight, but he does propose a solution: cut the sugar, increase the fiber, and get exercise. You still have to watch the overall calories, but according to him, for many of us a sugar calorie is not just a calorie.

FluffyDogsRule

yeah, i agree with tavis...at 1500 and exercising you couldn't POSSIBLY be gaining. do you mean 1500 net?