let's hear it for maintainenance

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  • WAHMto5
    WAHMto5 Posts: 375 Member
    Great thread! Close to maintence so trying to get it figured out. Just started to slowly up my calories.
  • aliciab307
    aliciab307 Posts: 370 Member
    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
    jsd_135 Posts: 291 Member
    bump
  • LaurnWhit
    LaurnWhit Posts: 261 Member
    Bump!
  • Lyssa62
    Lyssa62 Posts: 930 Member
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    YAY I'm there.!!!
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,855 Member
    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
    StefPayne Posts: 126 Member
    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:smile:
  • saltedcaramel86
    saltedcaramel86 Posts: 238 Member
    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
    swagtier Posts: 53
    bump for later
  • Mita19
    Mita19 Posts: 43 Member
    bump.....for later :)
  • mumx5
    mumx5 Posts: 325 Member
    Bump to read later :smile:
  • soniabogonia
    soniabogonia Posts: 778 Member
    Thanks for sharing your stories!!!
  • PrimalSiren
    PrimalSiren Posts: 144
    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
    A_Fit_Mom Posts: 602 Member
    Bump to read later ..only 9 more pounds for me. :)
  • JenNuma
    JenNuma Posts: 52 Member
    Bumping for when I have more time.

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