If we are trying to attain a goal weight

pondee629
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Why don't we just eat the maintenance calories for that goal weight? Wouldn't we get there? Just a question. ;-)
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That would all depend on you current calorie requirements. If it puts you in a deficit yes, you will lose weight, but if it puts you in a surplus you are going to gain weight.0
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OK. that makes sense; yarwell. I doubt an infinire time, wouldn't you eventually get there? It is maintenance for your GOAL weight.0
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OK. that makes sense; yarwell. I doubt an infinire time, wouldn't you eventually get there? It is maintenance for your GOAL weight.
technically it's infinite but with real world measurements you would think you were there a lot earlier than that.
It's infinite because when you are say 10 grams from goal the deficit is so tiny it might take a month to get to 9 grams when the deficit gets even smaller so the next gram takes 2 months and so on. It's a hypothetical case.
Fat2fit radio used this approach - eat at goal weight - but they added in "you can drop another 300 calories off your intake as you get close to goal" to counter this problem.
I tried the idea out on https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/bwp/ - setting the maintenance cals for 160 lbs as the intake
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OK Thanks, just a thought.0
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