Stay in place and eating

Anyone else having trouble wanting to eat more during this time? I am close to goal and am getting 1260 calories and I just can not help but go over that amount. I go out for walks but the desire to EAT can be overwhelming!

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  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Is your goal too low? How much is your weight loss set to? 2lbs per week? 1 pound?
  • maxiem7
    maxiem7 Posts: 23 Member
    No believe me my goal is not to low. If I were young it would be. This is the weight my Dr and I want me to be. I have 19 lbs to go and I have set my weight loss for 1/2 lb a week
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Are you eating back your exercise calories?
    I know you said you go for walks, but are you only taking them when you over eat? Or is it daily walks and on the days you dont feel like eating the cupboards off the walls you dont eat them back?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    maxiem7 wrote: »
    No believe me my goal is not to low. If I were young it would be. This is the weight my Dr and I want me to be. I have 19 lbs to go and I have set my weight loss for 1/2 lb a week

    I think the question (at least my version of it) was not a question about your goal weight, but about your calorie goal - whether that may be too low. How fast have you been losing weight (it's a good plan to slow down, when closer to goal). How old are you? What's your current weight/height?

    I'm fairly old (now 64, 59/60 when I lost weight) and only mid-height for a woman (5'5"). 1200 turned out to be too low for me, when losing. Even now (at 132-point-something pounds this morning), I'd lose fast at 1200 plus all exercise calories. And I'd be extremely, extremely hungry. I admit I'm mysteriously a good li'l ol' calorie burner despite being mostly sedentary (outside of exercise), but my point is that age is not necessarily as big a factor as people sometimes think.

    For sure, there are people (petite, older, very inactive women, mostly though not exclusively) who need to eat at/near 1200 in order to lose weight. Even in those cases, a prolonged period of lowered calories has the potential to result in some subtle changes that can lead to more frequent or longer plateaus, or to peaks in hunger/appetite. In that sense, a deliberate mild, gradual increase in calories; an intentional over-goal couple of days (especially extra carbs, as long as not diabetic/IR); or a couple of weeks at what should be maintenance calories, can be helpful to get things on a better course, afterwards.

    This is a good thread:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p1