When you hit maintenance, if you stopped tracking cals how long until you gained?
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You may have to increase your workouts and move up that calorie range. It may also be your diet. Are you eating things that helping you stay full longer? Beans, proteins, etc.?0
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I continue logging in maintenance and keep a close eye on everything. If I didn't, things would go bad fast0
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The obvious answer is it depends how you start eating.
For me, I have to log at maintenance. Maybe not as strictly, but the past two times I reached it taught me that guessing does not work for me.0 -
I hit maintenance and stopped logging for about a month. I actually lost a bit. I started logging again (well, not on weekends), and now I'm losing even more. My goal is not to log forever. I don't even know why I started again, honestly. Habit I suppose.
I think it really depends on what you learned while you were logging/weighing/tracking your food, and everyone is going to have different results based on that.0 -
I'm not planning on ever stopping tracking, I like the control and flexibility it gives me0
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Also, I have a three pound weight range that I want to stay around - so if I go above that, I know that I need to rein it in. The three pound range was chosen based on my typical fluctuations around my period and stuff. For some it might be a five or seven pound range.0
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Havent hit mainteance, but I plan to continue logging, but spend much less time trying to be exact, just to get a general pinpoint on how much i consumed in a day.
But in any case, now that I have a WiFi scale especially, i don't see why i wont be weighing myself every day from here on out.0 -
Last time, it took me five years before I got so careless that I really began to gain weight. To be successful, you need to be ready to do something if you gain just a few pounds, and you need to limit yourself to eating because you're hungry, not because it make you feel good, or whatever. Exercise is also important.0
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maillemaker wrote: »mccindy is a mchottie.
With your current profile pic, that's just plain creepy-stalkerish. However, McHottie does give good advice. Carry on..0 -
I wouldn't gain at all if I stopped tracking. I stopped tracking for 6 months in 2014 and I maintained around 173-175 lbs.
I maintained my weight at 127-133 lbs for my entire adult life, except for the last 2.5 years where other circumstances (health related) interfered. I'm only counting calories because I don't know the exact amount I'm supposed to eat to healthily *lose* weight.
If I stopped counting calories right now I'd likely maintain at around 170 lbs...
It really just depends on the person and what their lifestyle/habits are. Once I get to maintenance weight, I plan on weighing myself more often too though. If you always know what you weigh, you always know what to do to adjust activity/intake accordingly...0 -
With your current profile pic, that's just plain creepy-stalkerish.
Deal with lots of creepy-stalky knights in armour, do you?
It's re-enactment stuff.0 -
Even if I try my best to count calories at maintenance, I still manage to slowly gain weight back during the holidays and visiting family (not able to count calories and way too much good food). Also I'm more inclined to cheat when I know that I'm at a relatively good place weight wise. I would say unless you make really good changes to your everyday life, you'll most likely want to count to some degree when you maintain. I think another important factor is to continue to be active in some way.0
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TFaustino67 wrote: »maillemaker wrote: »mccindy is a mchottie.
With your current profile pic, that's just plain creepy-stalkerish. However, McHottie does give good advice. Carry on..
Yes, yes, we should all be more cheeped out by a chivalrous knight than a man in uniform. At least she could outrun someone in full armor.0 -
I was driving my family crazy tracking everything, it really works better when you do track everything. When I lost fifty pounds and hit my maintenance weight I decided that I was retrained on how to eat properly and I did great. Than I slacked off my running due to a renovation project. I like to drink beer when doing construction work so that didn't help. Last but not least I ate everything between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I put twenty pounds on fast. I am now running again and the pounds are coming back off. If this stops working I will start logging again. To the OP, You should give up mayo and pop tarts because nothing good is going to happen with those two around.0
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I just hit goal weight on Monday so this is my first week of maintenance. I don't plan to stop tracking because I plan to someday die at my current weight! LOL0
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I gained 10 lbs of the 50 lbs I lost after about 2.5 years of maintaining without counting calories. To be honest, I definitely could have continued to maintain without counting, but my life style completely changed and I didn't care enough to stop when I started to notice that I was gaining.0
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I was driving my family crazy tracking everything, it really works better when you do track everything. When I lost fifty pounds and hit my maintenance weight I decided that I was retrained on how to eat properly and I did great. Than I slacked off my running due to a renovation project. I like to drink beer when doing construction work so that didn't help. Last but not least I ate everything between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I put twenty pounds on fast. I am now running again and the pounds are coming back off. If this stops working I will start logging again. To the OP, You should give up mayo and pop tarts because nothing good is going to happen with those two around.
Life without mayonnaise would be no life for me.0 -
It's been about 13 years. I didn't log to lose though.
I do weigh daily and every time the scale ticks up more than a few I get much more careful.0
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