Starvation Mode

titletown
titletown Posts: 377 Member
edited October 3 in Motivation and Support
It seems there may be some truth to "starvation mode" after all.

After moving to maintenance mode, I bumped my daily calories up about 20-25%, nothing else was changed and lo and behold, I started losing weight again after a 2 month plateau.

I could still stand to lose 5 to 10 lbs, so I'm not complaining, and the extra daily calories are great ;)

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  • SlimSadieG
    SlimSadieG Posts: 323 Member
    Interesting!
  • Barbj56
    Barbj56 Posts: 39 Member
    I had the same thing happen. It took about a month for my weight to level out. Congrats on the loss!
  • marycmeadows
    marycmeadows Posts: 1,691 Member
    yea, it's so true! you have to feed the machine - most people don't get that!
  • Bonny272
    Bonny272 Posts: 154 Member
    I argued with my husband for years:heart: he told me I had to eat more to lose weight and of course as usual he was right again.
  • katheern
    katheern Posts: 213 Member
    Same thing happened to me! I was stuck for a while but I realized I was okay with my weight so I changed my goal to 0.5lb/week, statred eating more, and then BAM I started to lose a ton again!
  • ATT949
    ATT949 Posts: 1,245 Member
    It seems there may be some truth to "starvation mode" after all.

    After moving to maintenance mode, I bumped my daily calories up about 20-25%, nothing else was changed and lo and behold, I started losing weight again after a 2 month plateau.
    Great that you got things moving again!
  • titletown
    titletown Posts: 377 Member
    I was doing around 1600-1800 calories for a long time. Bumped up to 2100 for the past week and the pounds are coming off again.

    I'm curious to see how many calories I'll have to eat when I am finally done and want to fully maintain.
  • titletown
    titletown Posts: 377 Member
    Oh yeah, I also eat back the majority of my exercise calories each day...
  • titletown
    titletown Posts: 377 Member
    Eat more, lose more, gotta love it.

    I lost .4 lbs each of the past 2 days again :)

    It's looking like I'll hit that 200-205 mark yet.
  • sweatymary
    sweatymary Posts: 67
    I totally agree with this, I hit a plateau and my PT suggested I up my calories and 'shock' my body back into life!! First week of doing this I lost more than in the whole previous month ... it definitely works :-D
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