My metabolism is coming back

I hope this works on mine too! I'm slowly increasing my calories from 1290 to 1390, maybe 100/week until I get to maintenance! Still scared!

Good job on the weight loss and awesome metabolism!

yep, this is what i'm currently going through! eating more to increase my metabolism again, and i've already found i'm so much hungrier all the time (which is kind of annoying, but also really nice as my metabolism had slowed so much that i very very rarely felt hungry on 1300 cals/day). working my way up to 2000.

food for thought

Same for me. I eat around 2,000 cal a day, although today I ate 2,200 cal. Since going into maintenance and eating more I've lost an additional 2.5 pounds. I'm just gonna keep eating, cause its fun!

Thanks, I did the same thing. I think my metabolism came back with a bang, because even though I reached my goal weight, I kept losing, despite slowly building up my calories. So made a bit of a bigger jump in calories to 1,920 for a 5 ft. 10 in., 36yo female. Here's hoping I stabilise soon, though a bit nervous.

Did you gain before losing? I am now in maintenance mode and trying to figure out my new calorie goal. When I was losing I was eating about 1600 calories (eating exercise calories back). I've been slowly upping calories 100 per week to see what will work but with just an 100 calorie increase this week I gained 1.2 pounds. This may just be due to normal flunctuation in weight but it's freaking me out. I know a 100 calorie increase for matainance isn't right but why would I gain so much in just one week with that increase. I'm not sure what to do? Should I still increase and hope for the best...it's so scary..don't wanna gain any weight back!!! Thanks for any input!

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Great job on the weight loss and metabolic reset!!

An adult male needs 2200 kcal and more. This is because, the male metabolism is higher then females. It is also a known fact that males, are stronger, and need the energy for musclemass.
Which, human rights cause did you hunger strike for?

I'm so sick of people like you acting like men are so **** superior.

Why don't you just be quite?

Sweety, I know men can be douches at times, but this is actually scientifically correct. Testosterone promotes muscle growth, which makes men musclier. It also boosts metabolism. This is why sports are divided into men and women, because an extrodinarily fit woman can be outmatched by a mediocre man, meaning that if women and men competed in the same class they would not have a fair shot. This is not sexism, it's science

I'm 5'0" 105lbs and I net 1,500 cals a day on most days. When I net more I gain a little, but it's easy to lose. I just eat less for a few days. My BMR is like 1,200 so I figure eating 1,500+ and maintaining means my metabolism is good??

I lost quite a lot of weight with bariatric surgery, and have now reached a healthy & comfortable weight and am in maintenance. I try to net about 1560 cal/day (female, 48, 165 - 170, and net means I eat back my calories). I weigh myself weekly, and I tend to fluctuate between 165 & 170. Sometimes I'm higher, sometimes I'm lower. As long as I'm somewhere in that 5 pound range, I don't worry too much about gain vs. loss; I think it tends to be just normal fluctuations in water retention and other stuff. Because even when I'm being "bad", I don't eat enough to actually gain 4 pounds in a week's time, and I don't have a revved up enough metabolism to lose 4 pounds in a week's time (and I've recorded 4 pound weight gains and weight losses in a week's time).

If you are being mindful of how much you eat and what you eat (for some people, the type of food can mess you up, even if you are keeping your calories in check), and you are getting in enough fluids, appropriate exercise, and reasonable sleep, you will likely find your maintenance balance if you monitor over time and tweak a little bit. Once you find you are staying in a 5 or 10 pound range consistently, and you feel good and your clothes fit properly, you have probably found a good maintenance balance. At that point, you won't worry too much if your weight goes up and down a few pounds every week.

If you creep up out of that "comfortable" range, review what you've been doing for maintenance, shake things up with different food combos, different exercise combos, etc. to get back down into your "comfortable" range again. Losing weight is a big lifestyle change, but once it's gone, you still have to work to keep it off; maintenance is learning how to tweak all the good things you were doing to lose the weight in the first place, and find the optimum combination of food, exercise, water, and other good habits to keep the weight from coming back.

And most important of all, if you do see a bounce up and realize you've fallen back into some old bad habits, don't beat yourself up about it. You're human, and like all of us, there will be occasional stumbles. Just look forward and do your best to get back on track. If you lost the weight in the first place, you've figured out some of your problem areas and the triggers that cause them. You can fix that. Regrets and guilt will only hamstring you. Better to focus on what is good for you and going after that.

Best of luck to you.

Thanks, I did the same thing. I think my metabolism came back with a bang, because even though I reached my goal weight, I kept losing, despite slowly building up my calories. So made a bit of a bigger jump in calories to 1,920 for a 5 ft. 10 in., 36yo female. Here's hoping I stabilise soon, though a bit nervous.

Don't be surprised if your weight continues to drift down at 1920. That's only 20 calories more than I eat to maintain at 123 pounds for a 5'7", 60 year old female.