How can I end my diet without gaining weight

wormholesan
wormholesan Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I need tips and advice on how to end my diet. I recently went on a diet and achieved my goal of losing 30 pounds. How do I end my diet without gaining my weight back and relapsing?

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Set your calorie allowance on here to maintenance and eat that amount.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,103 Member
    If you go back to eating what you ate before your "diet," in the amounts you ate before, and you don't increase your activity and exercise to make up for it, you will almost certainly gain the weight back.
  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    It's common to "reverse diet" and step calories back to maintenance-level gradually, reducing your deficit 100-200 calories at a time.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    You have to eat at maintenance - calorie balance over time. MFP gives you a ballpark number when you enter your new stats and set your goal to maintenance. You will see a small gain when your glycogen stores replenish, but that's water, not fat, and it stops, if you don't go back to how you ate before. Now you start to fluctuate at your new range, and find your true maintenance level. You absolutely can't go back to how you ate before. This can be difficult if you didn't learn a how to eat in a calorie balance. Most diets just teach you how to eat to lose weight, and that's of no use if you hate that way of eating/living, and long for your old way of eating/living. All this to say "don't go on a diet" :#
  • Wendyanneroberts
    Wendyanneroberts Posts: 270 Member
    slossia wrote: »
    Because you chose to believe in counting calories to achieve weight loss, you’ll be stuck using willpower the rest of your life. You’ll always be hungry.

    New to MFP and posting quotes like this, then wonder why you get attacked. Many people have successfully counted calories, lost weight and successfully maintained a healthy weight for a long time. I have been successful because I can keep track so easily to either lose or maintain, no longer gaining (fat), just usual body fluctuations.

    OP, I feel everyone else has given good advice, especially Kommodevaran. Follow this advice, increase calories gradually, and you will learn to maintain.
  • Wendyanneroberts
    Wendyanneroberts Posts: 270 Member
    slossia wrote: »
    Give a plant base diet a chance. Cut out the meat and dairy, eggs, and also processed oils. Eat a variety of grains beans vegetables fruits nut and seeds. Get in enough calories to meet your macros. I suggest getting your fats from avacado, and small amounts of nuts and seeds, not processed but butters.

    There are many different ways to eat a healthy, well balanced diet. Everyone is different and it's important to find a woe that suits you. Personally I could not follow the eating plan you have listed, for starters I can't eat nuts. Calorie counting has allowed me the flexibility of eating a healthy well balanced diet and shown me the calories I have left to work in an occasional treat. Tracking my fat intake, as well, as stated by my cardiologist. Have transformed my blood tests results and haven't cut out any foods I enjoy. Knowing how many calories I need to eat to either lose weight or maintain my current weight and an easy way to keep track, has finally put me in control of my weight.
  • Wendyanneroberts
    Wendyanneroberts Posts: 270 Member
    Above should be split into 2 paragraphs, the second is in response to the 1st paragraph, as quoted. Mistake made somewhere.
  • slossia
    slossia Posts: 138 Member
    As to why I’m counting calories it’s because I’m tracking macros and nutrients! As far as picking a lifestyle you can live with I agree. But you never know till you try. I became vegan and before that vegetarian in my 20s I’m now 65 and thriving on this lifestyle. I did this for ethical reasons, but was fascinated by how good I felt and how I was able to stay mostly slim my whole life except for a time when I had a alcohol problem for a short time. I’ve convinced people to try this and sometimes it worked and some hated it. It’s not for everyone. I say try it for 30 days . Most people drop weight and still eat all they want. Might be do to keeping their fat to 15 percent of their calories. And their saturated fat to 10 grams or less. I suggest 1/2 gram per body weight. So 200 lbs 100 grams. Anyone wanted to know more message me.
  • slossia
    slossia Posts: 138 Member
    That was protein at 1/2 lb per body weight. Sorry
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