Is anyone on maintenance that isn't even that skinny?

VitaSh wrote: »

I suggest you look up Layne Norton's videos on Youtube about reverse dieting and how you can slowly reverse your calories higher to help increase your metabolism and change body composition, and then it will be much easier to lose weight from a higher caloric intake and/or maintain weight at higher calories, if you're interested.

This sounds very interesting.

I'm definitely not skinny: 5'3.5" and 155-157 lbs. It's what I weighed at my most comfortable ten years ago, pre-kids, so it's what I aimed for. I can even wear some of my old clothes again! (Although, not surprisingly, my tastes have changed a bit, and so has my shape courtesy of kids.)

I'd love to get more toned one of these days, and if that means I lose more weight, fine, but honestly I'm enjoying being back at the weight I wanted to be at, and I'd like to maintain for at least a year or two (it's been 4 months) before starting any more deliberate weight loss.

I have hit maintenance twice now. I am living proof that your body shape still changes after achieving goal weight. A couple of months after hitting my goal weight (both times), I had to set a new goal weight to fine tune. Hence my current MFP name "tweaking_time." My old handle was Go_Mizzou99 (lost 75 pounds that time)

Congrats on figuring out what works for your OP. Going off restricted calories and back on to maintenance calories is cool. You can always go back to fully or partially restricted calories if you want. You can also stay on maintenance and increase your activities and accomplish the same....or not.

Best wishes for your continued success either way.

Well i keep my calorie goal between 1400 and 1600 but i make a lot of exercise because i enjoy it so much. Is the best part of my day, when you just disconnect from the world for 1 hour and is very motivational when you see your body, working out so hard! Also i'm 5'1, i'm petite.

Frankly speaking, 1200 calories can be done when you are in a short term diet program. For me, it cannot be sustained in long term since I will crave for any food if there is nothing to occupy my mind, and eventually binging everything. Somehow, a toned body shape would be better than losing a few pounds as you can visualise it in the mirror.

If you are happy with your current body shape and weight, just keep it with 1400 - 1600 calories per day in average, and keep your body moving. Most importantly, stay happy

I'm petite too, 5'3, 113 lb.

Aiming at healthy not skinny....

Life is to be relished !

Cake and bike riding are both great.

Curves are fine.

Obsessing about having a skinny body (which some sadly do) does not strike me as an attractive goal and at times it is probably not an attractive personality trait either...

So for me I aim to get back (gently) to the healthy 150 or so I was before I got ill...and maintain at that.

(5' 7" female.)

After losing get 90ish pounds, I've decided that I'm in maintenance. I'm 5'6 and bounce between 156-159 and I'm ok with that. I'm 58 years old and it's just too damn hard to go much lower and be able to stay there. If I hit 160, I crack down until I lose a few pounds, I don't want to go any higher than 160.

One of my co-workers asked me if it was okay to tell me that I looked skinny...she had heard that it was offensive to some people! I told her that I appreciated that she noticed I had lost weight, and it was okay. I also said that since I wasn't actually skinny ( 5'5" and 156#) I considered myself to be "less large" lol. Most of my co-workers have said either nothing or that I "looked great" and I'm okay with that, too. I am still losing, but I'm not sure how much more I can lose and still be comfortable doing a maintenance diet. We'll see. I'm pretty okay with where I am now, but there is part of me that says I have to be officially out of the "overweight" category...

I'm going to be quite a bit heavier when I go into near maintenance mode. I'm currently 156 lbs and when I get to 149 (about 9lbs away from a "normal" weight range) I plan to go close to maintenance and work on lifting primarily whereas my primary exercise now is cadio-based.
As of right now, my "goal" is just to land in a healthy weight range. At 5'3, that's anywhere between 105-140. Other than that, all of my goals are fitness-related instead of weight-related. I find that helps my mental health at the very least

lithezebra wrote: »

I don't think it's physically possible for me to have skinny legs. They're thick, even when my body fat is below 18%. I'm seeing where my weight settles out if I eat 1500 calories a day.

Ditto @lithezebra my upper is now so lean you can see my veins over biceps, but my legs are still quite the chunky monkeys! Skinny will never refer to me!