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Are your maintenance calories about what you predicted?

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  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    edited October 2016
    lower. blegh. I get a whole entire 1400. >:( And my friends wonder why I work out as much as I can stand to. In order to be able to eat!
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    I didn't lose weight but came on here to measure what I was eating and yes.

    I figured I was an average sized person mass-wise since I'm tallish and thinnish, and it's always 2,000 in the nutrition facts on the back of packaged foods, and yep, I was eating right around 2,000 to maintain. More on a very active day and less if I lay around for a few days, but it's close. I have a lot of active days though, somewhere around 2,000 to 2,500 feels most natural to eat for me, but it's an average, there are hungry days and days when I just feel full all day without eating much at all.

    But anyway, I measured for quite a few weeks and it takes me about what I thought to maintain a healthy mass.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Yes, but I maintained a healthy weight for most of my adult life so I knew what it would be.
  • intangiblemango
    intangiblemango Posts: 38 Member
    My maintenance calories were much higher than anticipated-- was expecting around 2000 and maintain at around 2800 (at 5'6" 125 lbs). HOWEVER, that is only because I am much more active than I have ever been.

    I was also within the healthy BMI range at my heaviest.
  • karl317
    karl317 Posts: 87 Member
    2200/day maintenance (46yo 6'3") - dead on for me, but my exercise calories are a wash (around 1000 a day). If I eat into those significantly, I start to gain so I stay out of those.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    Yes, but it's significantly lower than the calculators predict for a person of my activity, height and weight. This does not surprise me, I've known I gain weight easily for a very long time.
  • KareninLux
    KareninLux Posts: 1,413 Member
    fiddletime wrote: »
    I went from 1200 to 1350 calories in maintenance. I'm 61 and 5'2". I was pretty disappointed with that, but if I ate more, I gained. I lasted 2 months on maintenance but slipped and am out of maintenance now.

    Oh, la. Me too. Am 50 and 5'6" and am now up 4 lbs - ish and looking at the holidays!! Am back in a deficit to get back to my range weight. Woah.
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