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Try the Hairy Bikers Spanish Chicken Bake. Cheap and easy - it's just chicken thighs with chorizo with lots of veg and potatoes - at 370 calories per serving, it's good: Serves 4 Ingredients 1 medium onion, cut into 8 wedges 1 medium red onion, cut into 8 wedges 500g new potatoes, quartered lengthways 8 whole garlic…

Log for life. That has been my thing. Quit stressing about gaining weight during maintenance. If you're eating right, you're eating right. I do a blow out cheat meal once a month with pizza or burger/chips with a chocolate bar. But I plan it and exercise around it, so I keep my calories down. I like my body. I like how…

Yeah, I've tried the calculators, but it still looks like I'm anywhere between 2000 and 2200 and I don't really know how active I am. Have bumped it up to 2,200 calories a day and maintaining at 64 kg. for now. Will keep this monitored and see how good this works. I can't believe how much food I'm able to eat on 2,200 a…

Personally, I think a lot of people on MFP eat a lot of processed crap, especially the American diaries that I see. It's sad to see so much trans fats out there. I cook a lot. And you can eat cheaply and tastily doing that. I cook my own flatbreads and naan breads to keep calories down. I eat organic, wholemeal bread,…

My daily fibre goal is 24 grams a day. I do about 30 grams a day. Lots of veg..

2 or 3 glasses of red a day... I'm British and my other half is a fine dining chef. Still count calories for it, maintaining at a perfect weight and still look and feel fabulous, so why not? I eat well with everything else and have an occasional *kitten*, so live life and be happy!

Goal weight has been reached and now at 64 kg. for the last few days, so I've lowered my calories slightly and feel my maintenance spot is at 2,040. This is due to the weight gain from eating between 2,100 and 2,300 a day.

I have switched my calories to TDEE, which I think is a good way to go. I had a huge blowout day yesterday to eat loads and felt a lot better too. With my level of exercise per week, I do about 4 1/2 hours of moderate/intense exercise a week, so this set my calories at 2,200 per day. However, I still plan on eating whole…

1. How long have you been maintaining? Since March 2013 2. Did you adjust your initial goal? Yes, I am actually 17.6 pounds (8 kg. more than my goal weight) 3. Did you begin the transition to maintenance before you actually hit your goal? Not really fast enough. 4. Did you gradually increase your calories or bump up to…

How is it going then?

Yes, I know. I just don't want to get into ****ty eating habits again by going all out, except for a day. I have been watching it. When you first saw me here, I was on 1,600 calories a day and now up to 2,200 a day, so I have definitely been trying. I have been doing like you said, where I'm bumping up calories once a…

Bumped up calories again to 2,200 per day and eating a bit of junk, which I have only done twice in the last two months. My weight is now dangerously low at 62 kg. I know this just by looking at myself. So giving myself a relaxed day today. A few biscuits, some toast with honey.. etc. etc.

Interesting. Well, I may very well have to do that. Will see how it goes. It is sort of going up and down within a pound, so at least I'm no longer losing, but we will see. I'm going to see how another two weeks goes on 2,100 calories and then weigh myself.

Just an FYI on how things are going. I haven't really had any cheat meals, except still once every four weeks, but the 2,100 calories are doing it for me. I'm steady at about 63 kg. and at least I'm steady and not losing. Once this seems to keep on working for me over the next three weeks, I'll ramp it up to gain a little…

I do the same, in terms of eating whole foods and lots and lots of veg. Bump up your calories once a week by 100 and you should notice a difference. I also eat bread now, but sparingly, and have decided to just have more small meals spaced out through the day because I just can't bear eating too much in one go! lol!

I'm 36 years old, 5 ft. 10 in. and wear a UK Size 8/10 or US Size 4/6, as I have very broad shoulders from being an athlete.

If I'm honest, you still have a little too much sugar in your diet and I think the problem, which isn't your fault, is that to watch exactly what the calories are because most of the calorie amounts on MFP are wrong. If they vary wildly on the database, I look it up on the internet to figure it out myself and a lot of the…

Yeah, I tried lightly active and that's where I was losing. MFP has me on 1890 calories a day on "Lightly Active." I'm currently at 2,100 calories a day and that seemed to have stabilised the weight and will be having a cheat meal every two weeks rather than every four weeks from now. i.e. cheat meal means a burger and…

Open up your diaries and we could tell you.

Well, I re-introduced things like bread back into my diet and also light sugary things into my diet when I have exercise days. I have been steady at 2000 calories, but still at the lower weight of 63 kg. and I just feel too skinny, so I'm ramping my calories up to 2,100 per day now, which is the maintenance calories for a…

I log and weigh myself every morning at the same time. I think this is a good thing if you're not a neurotic person about it. I found my weight fluctuates about 2 pounds. I just don't hold off doing it because I don't want to get on there in a month and think, crap! I need to panic. I just take it in stride that it's a…

Dairy Milk Bar with Oreo Filling. It's a gigantic bar of 680 calories and I ate the whole thing...

I do reformer pilates and jivamukti yoga too. Those help with good toning and strength.

I use the calories burned on here. Though sometimes it depends on the activity. I would suggest underestimating on the level of activity you do (i.e. leisurely walking rather than moderate) and then also take into account the warm up or the cool down if you do a class. I do a 45-minute spin class and I put down 40 minutes…

Figured it out through trial and error to get my sweet spot. I went on these boards to figure it out and it helped. Now solid at my weight and don't fluctuate wildly. I plan on logging forever because I just so enjoy looking really lovely and feeling so healthy, so it's now like sending a text message on my iphone. I think…

It's all relative to how active you are in your life. I commute on a London tube train and exercise about 4.5 hours per week, so I do a bit of walking. I am nine stone, nine pounds, and my calories are set at 2000. Myfitnesspal says 1890 for lightly active and 2030 for active. The 2000 a day has helped and then for treats,…

Slow cooked spiced Indian leg of lamb and roasted veg/potatoes in fresh garlic and herbs...

Londoner here! Always happy to help!

Yup, MFP says my maintenance with lightly active is 1900 and moderately active is 2100, so I eat 2000. It's perfect.

I found that freaked me out too. I hit my first goal weight about six months ago, but I was also shedding the massive bulky muscle as I retired from heavy sport. Then two to three months after I hit my goal, my weight kept dropping and then I stabilised three months ago and still fine. My body was trying to figure…