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Gaining Weight Back
ItsMeDua
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In order to lose weight and then NOT GAIN IT BACK, am I supposed to have a calorie deficit for the rest of my life? In the year 2018, I lost 8kgs 😍 but then I stopped logging into MFP and gained back 4 kgs in a few months 😿 I did eat in greater quantities (Summer vacations) but not everyday. I was careful too. I really do see the importance of MFP now but for how long will I have to do this? Hopefully, after a few years I’ll have a good know how of what’s too much and what’s too little but sometimes you think you know but you don’t. I don’t know.. Any thoughts?
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When you get to goal weight, the next step is to learn how to get into maintenance. A lot of people just go back to eating the same way they did, re-gain all the weight and wonder what happened. You can't go back to that kind of over-eating if you want to maintain your goal weight. But there are a lot of good resources in the maintaining weight section and a lot of people who have successfully kept it off, so it is possible4
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I have to continue logging.
When I reached my goal in 2016 I had lost 140lbs. Due to a combination of not logging and a BCP that made me feel ravenous all the time I started 2018 23lbs heavier than 2016. So my conclusion is that I am horrible at eyeballing and will have to continue to log food 95% of the time to keep it off. The difference though is that I will be able to eat a few hundred more calories during maintenance.4 -
Look into reverse diet. After being in a prolonged calorie deficit, you need to get your calories back up to your new maintenance slowly. Holy Baxter who is a dietitian and competitive body builder has done videos on YouTube tracking her reverse diet after shows.1
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That’s trueee and awesome! Thank you
No Pain, No Gain..MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »When you get to goal weight, the next step is to learn how to get into maintenance. A lot of people just go back to eating the same way they did, re-gain all the weight and wonder what happened. You can't go back to that kind of over-eating if you want to maintain your goal weight. But there are a lot of good resources in the maintaining weight section and a lot of people who have successfully kept it off, so it is possible
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There are some interesting threads in the maintenance section....1
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