Maintaince

geminigarcia199017
geminigarcia199017 Posts: 529 Member
edited December 2 in Health and Weight Loss
What is the meaning of eating at maintanance.

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  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    Someone eating at maintenance calories is neither gaining nor losing weight over time. They are eating at the average calories they need to remain at their current weight.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,185 Member
    Your mfp goal includes a deficit. If you have set it up for a 1 pound per week loss then your deficit would be 500 calories. Eating at maintenance would be eating 500 calories per day above your goal and as WBB55 said that would have you maintain your current weight.
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  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    After all these threads and posts how can you still not understand this?

    Maintenance is the number of calories you need to eat in order to not gain or lose weight.

    Where did you get 1700 calories from? A calculator? If os what did you tell that calculator you wanted? To gain? To maintain? To lose?
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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    I'm a male & I eat 1700 calories,so if I eat 1700 calories does that mean I am eating at maintanance.

    I thought you were a girl
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  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    If mfp gave you 1700 as a goal to lose 1 pound per week, then your maintenance (where you don't lose or gain) would be 2200.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    eveandqsmom wrote: »
    If mfp gave you 1700 as a goal to lose 1 pound per week, then your maintenance (where you don't lose or gain) would be 2200.

    *Before purposeful exercise, assuming correct activity level was chosen.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10418664/am-i-understanding-this-right#latest
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