Trying to lose last 2 pounds & maintain goal weight

heyitslexi95
heyitslexi95 Posts: 39 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Hi everyone,

After more than a year of attempting to reach a goal weight of 125lbs, I realized how determined I was to hit a certain number more than a happy medium for myself. I have noticed that when around 130lbs, I feel fine and feel like my body is finally beautiful. However, currently I am weighing in at 131.8lbs and am unsure if this is due to my menstrual cycle coming soon or if I really gained weight. I normally used to check my weight daily, but nowadays due to past ED's I try to weigh myself only 1-2 a week.

My question is, how many calories should I be eating daily to maintain weight?
CW: 131.8lbs
GW: 130lbs
Activity: Running 15 minutes, Walking 10 minutes, Strength Training 3-4x's a week
Age: 20
Height: 5'7"

I currently eat around 1,200-1350 calories a day currently

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  • samgamgee
    samgamgee Posts: 398 Member
    edited May 2016
    Go into 'Goals', and set it to 'maintain my weight'. Mfp will work out the calories that you need to eat to maintain that weight :)

    You should be eating more than 1200-1350 to maintain (assuming you are weighing your food accurately) - I'm shorter and a tad lighter than you (5'3" and 128 lbs) and I maintain on 1620 even though I'm often fairly sedentary.
  • Owlfan88
    Owlfan88 Posts: 187 Member
    You should definitely be able to eat more than 1200-1350 to maintain! I'm also 5'7" but much older, 50, and I'm currently maintaining around 130-135 for the past 6 months. I'm eating 2000-2200 most days. I walk about 2 miles (30-35 minutes) every day with total steps including that walk of around 12k a day and strength training 1-2 times per week.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    I ran your stats and I came up with 1700 to maintain your current weight. Op if you are indeed weighing all of your food intake and completely 100% positive on the amount of calories you consume which is the 1200 - 1350 range, you should still continuing to be loosing weight.

    This may be a process you will have to work on in a week to week basis by upping your calories each week or two, until you find the right balance and where you are indeed maintaining on X calories a week.

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