Lose weight after increasing calories?

Sugar_Tulip
Sugar_Tulip Posts: 7 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi you guys.
Anyone ever find their struggles with the scale ended and the weight finally started consistently dropping off once they increased calories?

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  • TurnipGirl
    TurnipGirl Posts: 3 Member
    That, or your exercise level is so high that the calories you were eating before weren't enough to fuel your body properly.

    I've also had an issue where I wasn't getting enough healthy fats in my diet. Adding 200 extra calories into my eating plan and incorporating 2% greek yogurt and more avocado into my diet helped me get past a pretty intense plateau.
  • Sugar_Tulip
    Sugar_Tulip Posts: 7 Member
    Cool! Thanks everyone
  • cheryldumais
    cheryldumais Posts: 1,907 Member
    That depends... I was stuck for 3.5 months and yes I was logging everything and weighing and measuring. I went to maintenance calories for a week then back to lower calorie and I finally started losing again. I can't explain it. I know scientifically it makes no sense but it worked. I had been dieting for a year though so who knows why... When I started dieting again I reduced my expectations and increased my calories (but still below maintenance) and started losing again at a much slower rate. I'm only losing .5 a week now but I am on my last 15 pounds. I've lost 84 pounds to date.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I lost more weight when I was upping my calories to go to maintenance. I found that with increased calories, my workouts were better and that I could go harder and longer on the bike, and I was less sluggish in general and had a hard time sitting still...fidgeted more, etc.

    Essentially, I upped calories and it caused me to move more.

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