Should I still be losing weight?

Lift weights!

Personally I would eat at maintenance level, strength train, and then I guess eating exercise calories back is up to you.


nailed it head on. this is exactly what you should be doing.


I Agree

if you dont have weights, then use tins. it's better than nothing

But can body-weight training be just as effective? Like if I do different forms of squats, leg lifts, calf raises, sit ups, pushups and what not can't that be just as good? I'll obviously have to do A LOT more, but I'm not opposed to that

You nailed it. Body weight exercises are just as effective, you just maybe can't isolate particular muscles as precisely, but you want overall training, not muscle isolation like a pro body builder would want.

Pushups, pull ups and crunches and you've got a complete upper body workout.

I would work on toning and eat at maintenance. Also, eat back your exercise calories so you do not have a deficit. You can still look look good without losing any more weight. You just need to strength train and tone areas.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm really afraid of eating at maintenance. Because when I have a deficit I know that if I mess up, I will not gain anything (unless it was a huge mistake) but at maintenance if I mess up I run the risk of gaining weight.

I'm terrified of ending up back where I was over a year ago. Absolutely terrified, haha.

I've been there and I know the transition to maintenance calories is difficult. Plus I found getting on the scales and not seeing a loss weird, it's kind of addictive seeing your weight creep down.

My advice is ease up to maintenance calories slowly, it takes a while to learn how many calories are right for you. Most importantly don't panic if your weight goes up at a weigh in, it naturally fluctuates anyway. Obviously if it keeps creeping up over a couple of weeks then you need to re-evaluate and lower your goal slightly. I have had a couple of times when I've lowered my calories for a few weeks to stay maintaining. If you stay vigilant you will be fine, you have managed to lose the weight so you can keep it off. If you put a few pounds back on, so what! you can easily lose it again, you have to eat at maintenance calories some time.

I definitely agree with the other advice about strength training, it's made a huge difference to me, also lately I've stepped it up a gear and I'm eating higher protein, lower carb which is really helping me to get lean.

btw press ups are great bodyweight exercise

and feel free to add me as a friend if you like, I will be happy to cheer you on.

You can buy some resistance bands as well as do body weight exercises. The bands are cheap, and you can use them in your home. Good luck, I can only imagine that being at maintainance is scary - but you can do it!