Maintenance afraid to eat 1800
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I lost on 1,240 cals a day and now maintain on 1,710.
With both losing and maintaining, I logged exercise and ate those extra cals, so most days I was having 1,500-1,800 to lose and now 2,000-2,300 to maintain.
It was an extra 500 cals a day (almost) for me too, and it's working.
If you're really nervous, add it in gradually till you get to 1,800, but you may lose a little more while you do so. You may see slight, temporary, weight gains, while your body adjusts to more cals. Give it a month on maintenance cals before worrying about what your weight is doing.0 -
it's a mental change and it's normal to be concerned
for months I did not up my calories, and my maintenance became an extended loss
increase them gradually, it helps to both check if the cals are right and mentally to get used to the new regime0 -
ive hit my goal weight of 129 but it Says 1800 calories is ok now. I'm wondering if this is too much. I'm 5 6 and 46 years old. I lost 14 lbs since June 3rd. Any advice?
I'm your height and eat 1600 to lose weight, I bet you're fine. But how about working up to it? Add 100 a week until you're there. Then you can monitor your weight (do allow for a little water weight to come back though)0 -
Ok, so I hit my goal weight and got my calories upped as well, but I was wondering...I'm very comfortable with 1200 a day. I feel good, I eat more if I exercise. Can I just keep this up indefinitely? I'm female, 47, 5'5, 125.0
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icewings27 wrote: »Ok, so I hit my goal weight and got my calories upped as well, but I was wondering...I'm very comfortable with 1200 a day. I feel good, I eat more if I exercise. Can I just keep this up indefinitely? I'm female, 47, 5'5, 125.
At maintenance you need to eat more than that.....I'm smaller than you and maintain on 2200 cals approx. The winner is the person who can maintain while getting to eat more...bump up your cals a few 100 and enjoy them0 -
icewings27 wrote: »Ok, so I hit my goal weight and got my calories upped as well, but I was wondering...I'm very comfortable with 1200 a day. I feel good, I eat more if I exercise. Can I just keep this up indefinitely? I'm female, 47, 5'5, 125.
In short: no. You'll simply keep losing weight, which at some point will result in you being underweight. Being underweight can cause health problems, just like being overweight.0 -
I'm older than you and taller and I eat what MFP tells me plus my exercise calories and I've been maintaining 4 years. I was nervous at first. I had been at a 500 calorie deficit and upped by 250 for quite a while. Then I started losing and upped it all the way.
You trusted the system to lose. Trust it to maintain. If you keep losing or start gaining, adjust accordingly.0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »ive hit my goal weight of 129 but it Says 1800 calories is ok now. I'm wondering if this is too much. I'm 5 6 and 46 years old. I lost 14 lbs since June 3rd. Any advice?
You lost more than one pound per week at 1300 calories. 1800 is probably still slightly below your maintenance based on that rate of loss .... assuming accurate logging over the past few months.
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It's been a couple of weeks. I went to Mexico for 1 week and gained 2lbs. My fitness pal had me scale back calories and I'm back down to goal weight 2 weeks later. I'm going to stick with 1800 calories next week and see how it goes.0
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Since posting on October 4th, I have been eating about 1700 on average and have lost 2.5lbs so I am upping to 1800 and seeing how it goes.0
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Sometimes you gain 2-3 pounds of permanent water weight when you stop eating at a deficit. Your body is replacing some of the glycogen stores it dumped when you first started. This is normal and shouldn't affect your size.
Don't mistake that gain as coming from eating more.0
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