How long do you think you can keep up with your Maintaince?

I'm gonna try for the rest of my life, i'm exactly in the middle of the 'ideal' weight range for me (59kg to 79kg), I'm 70kg, and couldn't wish for a better weight, but according to MFP I can only eat 2,200 calories a day to maintain my weight, for a medium active guy like me, always feeling hungry and cold, having to remember every little bite or crumb that I've consumed, so I can log it, going to bed hungry, then repeating the process again the next day.

I read some have been maintaining for years, well done, I hope I can do it too...

Spiderkeys - I keep wondering why you're so hungry. If it's not that you need more calories, maybe you need the protein/meat that you crave? Personally, I find an egg or a piece of chicken or some nuts - 100 calories or so - makes me feel pretty satisfied. Fat too. When I'm really working - backpacking or working outside - it's fat and protein I really want. It's not volume, it's the right stuff within your calories.

I'm 2yrs in and still count like I did on day 1, it's worth it. I eat foods I love, it's no punishment.

I've been maintaining for about six months now, although I am maintaining at about 5lbs more than what I would have liked. But I find that with my FitBit telling me how many calories I'm burning each day, if I eat what I burn, I maintain. Unfortunately for me, I only burn an average of 1800 calories a day. I figure I'll live my life consuming the number of calories I burn and hopefully I'll continue to maintain. I'm actually fairly comfortable at this number of calories.

I made it a lifestyle change. So, mine will be forever! :-)

Only see here, the more you have to lost the harder it is to maintain, but yeah eating plenty of vegges, the last three days felt like a semi-failure because I slightly accidently when over, which is easy done at the end of the day, it's discouraging when MFP says I put on 6 pounds in the next 5 weeks, but Ill try upping them, I shouldnt take too much notice of what MFP, but it was fairy accurate during my weight loss journey, just wasn't expecting the maintance to be more painful as the weight loss mode, was looking forward till I could eat more when I switched, what seemed like a "lot" or "too much" food the first week, which made you feel, "wow this is so easy!" as quickly turned to into "so little" food, and becoming harder everyday..

It's not supposed to be like this. You're also not supposed to be tired, cold, hungry or obsessed with food. You need to ask yourself whether this is an eating pattern you can maintain indefinitely. If you can't, you'll eventually fail and gain weight back unless you change. You're experiencing negative side effects of your eating plan, so you either need to change what/how you're eating or get comfortable with the side effects. (I don't recommend the latter).

"Maintenence" is a range, not an absolute number -- both in terms of weight on the scale and caloric intake. You won't maintain at exactly 70kg, but you can maintain at 70 +/- 2 kg. And most people have a window of a couple hundred calories that will keep them in maintenence. If you can't find a way to be comfortable with that kind of flexibility, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Another firbit user here. According to it, I burn around 1850 a day and that seems pretty accurate so far. I've only been maintaining for a few months, but i realize I will have to be diligent forever.