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Loosing weight!

fickleee
fickleee Posts: 43 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Usually people would think this is a good thing, when you’re actually trying to maintain you’re weight now. I’ve lost almost 50 pounds now and I feel quite comfortable where I am now, but now I’m just loosing weight on accident? I started eating more and I’m still loosing weight! Anyone have any recommendations?

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  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    Keep eating more until you stop LOSING weight. You just need to determine your maintenance set point. Not real magic trick to it.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    How long have you been trying to maintain? It’s common to see weight fluctuations for a little while when beginning maintenance. If you’ve been trying to maintain for a while and your average weight is still going down, then you still need more calories. Add 50 calories to your daily goal, wait a couple of weeks and see what happens, add or subtract calories as needed. Repeat until your weight trend stabilizes.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    fickleee wrote: »
    Usually people would think this is a good thing, when you’re actually trying to maintain you’re weight now. I’ve lost almost 50 pounds now and I feel quite comfortable where I am now, but now I’m just loosing weight on accident? I started eating more and I’m still loosing weight! Anyone have any recommendations?

    Eat more
  • fickleee
    fickleee Posts: 43 Member

    TavistockToad wrote: »
    fickleee wrote: »
    Usually people would think this is a good thing, when you’re actually trying to maintain you’re weight now. I’ve lost almost 50 pounds now and I feel quite comfortable where I am now, but now I’m just loosing weight on accident? I started eating more and I’m still loosing weight! Anyone have any recommendations?

    Eat more

    I’ve been trying to maintain not very long. Maybe only a couple days? But yet I still find it quite odd that I’m loosing weight.

    I’m eating quite a lot and reaching my calorie goal (usually I reach 1800-2000, goal is 2000). I decided to add more things to my meals and even another snack, but that doesn’t seem to be the case to help. The problem with eating even more is I get full after meals and snacks, so I don’t really have an appetite until later on in the night when I’m going to bed.



  • DPrson1102
    DPrson1102 Posts: 1 Member
    Hello All: I just upgraded to premium on MFP. How do you determine the Macros, for losing weight. Someone said all you had to do was key in your weight, etc. Am I missing something her :blush:
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    fickleee wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    fickleee wrote: »
    Usually people would think this is a good thing, when you’re actually trying to maintain you’re weight now. I’ve lost almost 50 pounds now and I feel quite comfortable where I am now, but now I’m just loosing weight on accident? I started eating more and I’m still loosing weight! Anyone have any recommendations?

    Eat more

    I’ve been trying to maintain not very long. Maybe only a couple days? But yet I still find it quite odd that I’m loosing weight.

    I’m eating quite a lot and reaching my calorie goal (usually I reach 1800-2000, goal is 2000). I decided to add more things to my meals and even another snack, but that doesn’t seem to be the case to help. The problem with eating even more is I get full after meals and snacks, so I don’t really have an appetite until later on in the night when I’m going to bed.



    1-2 days is too early to conclude that you need to eat more. Losing a bit of weight in that time frame could be completely unrelated to being in a deficit, it could be just normal weight fluctuations. I've been maintaining for a couple of years and I bounce around a 5-8 pound range regularly.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    fickleee wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    fickleee wrote: »
    Usually people would think this is a good thing, when you’re actually trying to maintain you’re weight now. I’ve lost almost 50 pounds now and I feel quite comfortable where I am now, but now I’m just loosing weight on accident? I started eating more and I’m still loosing weight! Anyone have any recommendations?

    Eat more

    I’ve been trying to maintain not very long. Maybe only a couple days? But yet I still find it quite odd that I’m loosing weight.

    I’m eating quite a lot and reaching my calorie goal (usually I reach 1800-2000, goal is 2000). I decided to add more things to my meals and even another snack, but that doesn’t seem to be the case to help. The problem with eating even more is I get full after meals and snacks, so I don’t really have an appetite until later on in the night when I’m going to bed.



    So on 2 days you have hit 1800 - 2000 cals? How many cals were you eating to lose weight?
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