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Not many people would struggle to eat 1500 calories but if you can manage by eating crap food, you should be able to manage by eating more healthier foods.. You could try adding higher calorie foods like nuts, full fat yoghurts, a few squares of dark chocolate, peanut butter, etc into your daily diet. If you’re struggling…

I’m about 30lbs less than my original goal but got here unintentionally. After reaching my intended goal nearly 10 years ago, I then lost approximately another 15lb trying to find my maintenance calories. Then I stayed at roughly the same weight til lockdown, and when I started walking, without increasing calories, I lost…

I very rarely weigh myself. Last time was about March time. When I was trying to lose weight, I weighed monthly.

I'd like to add something to my post above as I definitely don't want to give the impression that I'm a fan of having a low BMI, which I do know sounds a bit contradictive because I've got one 🙈! Also, each to their own! Like I said above, it wasn't in my weight journey plan to get so low, but now I'm here, I do struggle…

With a BMI of about 19, I’m currently at the lower end of a healthy BMI. Although it had never been in my weight journey plan to get to where I am now, and I was perfectly happy when my BMI was around 22 or 23. However, I’d be lying if I said I was unhappy with my current weight. Over the week, I average 2100 calories…

My initial drive was deteriorating health, mainly dangerously high cholesterol, coupled with the fact that being obese was having a negative affect on my mental health. I’d been overweight most of my adult life, and had successfully lost considerable amounts of weight on numerous occasions, but I had never been able to…

Oops 🤣! Oh well, hopefully some other members might find the replies/posts useful, and the original poster is happily maintaining!

I'm in my 10th year of maintenance, and I agree with all the posts about having a weekly target. It took me a while to get on board with this as I HATED being in the red, but as time has gone on, I am more relaxed about the number. I find this gives me much more flexibility in my eating. As a rule I tend to eat more at the…

Well done. Happy maintaining!

I was a yo-yo dieter from the age of about 19 to 52, losing and then regaining stones on multiple occasions. I was either 100% on a diet or 100% off. During that time, I attended various slimming clubs and tried different diets. Whenever I got to goal, it didn’t take me long to revert back to my old eating habits, and the…

Until 2014, I’d spent most of my adult life repeatedly losing then regaining weight. This is quite common so definitely don’t beat yourself up. When you’re in the right head space, you’ll be able to focus on losing weight again. You’ve done it before so you can do it again. Do whatever works for you, but try not to lose…

I started walking during UK lockdown, and haven’t stopped. Despite already being at my goal weight, I lost a further stone+ because I didn’t up my calorie intake to compensate for the extra activity I was doing. During my weight loss journey, I had never eaten back exercise calories (mind you, I didn't actually do much…

I’ve been maintaining my weight since 2015, and it’s important to me not to deviate from my weekly goal too much, if at all. I’ve had lots of Christmas meals out, and I manage this by under eating my maintenance calories some days, to balance out the days I eat over my maintenance calories. I usually always eat more at the…

During my weight loss period, I weighed myself monthly. I've been maintaining my weight since 2015 and over the past 3 years or so, I've only weighed myself a couple of times.

I'm definitely not sugar free but at the start of 2014, I decided to abstain from, not moderate, my intake of sweets, chocolate, cakes, biscuits and ice-cream. I believed these to be my trigger foods, and while in the past, when I was in the right head space, I had been able to lose significant amounts of weight by…

Welcome back. I was where you are at the start of 2014. I was the heaviest I’d ever been, my weight had yo-yo’d for over 30;years, and I’d tried various diets, and slimming clubs. I knew something had to change, because while in the right head space, I could lose weight, I just couldn’t maintain my goal weight for longer…

Definitely. I go for a weekly goal, eating a bit less at the start of the week if possible, to allow extra calories for meals out or weekend ‘treats’.

For lots of people, I think anxiety around moving into maintenance, and worrying about a potential weight gain, is quite common. It certainly was for me anyway. Like others have said, maintenance isn’t that much different than losing weight, so just continue doing what you’re doing now, with the added ‘luxury’ of eating a…

Like others have said, any plan that works for you long term is the best plan for you, or for an individual. Over my years of yo-yo dieting, I had tried quite a lot of different ways to lose weight, but never anything too extreme other than when I was in my early 20s (way back in the early 1980s!), when I was on a kind of…

I’m a former binge eater too, although everyone’s interpretation of what a binge eater is may differ. After about 30 years plus of trying different things to control my binge/disordered eating, I decided to try abstinence as an alternative to moderation. For me it worked. Been maintaining a 90lb+ weight loss for over 7…

In theory, I agree with everything above. I had successfully maintained for over 5 years, rarely weighing myself, but accepting that my weight was probably fluctuating up and down a bit. I was fine with that, it didn't stress me out, and I didn't feel I needed a number on the scales to reassure me I was doing OK. However,…

That's brilliant news. I've been doing a wee maths 'test' myself for the past couple of months, but I haven't stepped on the scales yet so I don't know if I'm being successful or not. Hopefully like you, the data and numbers will work for me too!

Well done on reaching your first goal. Definitely never give up on yourself... that second goal is in your sights.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes... I try to have faith in the maths too, so it will be interesting to see how you get on. Thanks.

I agree, I lost 5 stones in 10 months doing nearly no exercise at all for the first 8 out of the 10 months. I had also struggled with my weight for most of my adult life and have started and stopped so many diets that I couldn’t even begin to say how many times I’ve been where you are now. However, I have now successfully…

Rarely! In fact, I’ve weighed myself twice since 2018, both times in the past 8 months. During my weight loss journey, I weighed monthly, and continued with that for a couple of years after I reached my goal. Then for the next couple of years I weighed yearly. At the end of last year, I suspected I’d lost quite a bit of…

Sounds like you are doing well too, and while it's natural to worry about sustaining weight loss, it is definitely possible, and lots of members on MFP will vouch for that. Continue with the good habits you started during weight loss, but enjoy the extra calories you can now add in. I'm 61 now, and like you I spent the…

I'm struggling a bit with this myself just now. I've been maintaining since late 2014 (90lbs loss), and to be honest, I'd been really lucky and found the whole maintenance 'journey' quite easy, and was very happy with how many calories I could eat to maintain. Despite rarely weighing myself, I reckon my weight was pretty…

I totally understand your anxiety, and I think worrying about weight gain after maintenance is quite a common concern for lots of people. You don't say how tall you are, but eating 1200 calories for 8 months seems very low. If you are now just eating 1400 calories, and walking a lot, it is little wonder you are still…

Hi, I lost weight for about a further 6 months after I had reached my goal, losing approximately a further 16lbs in that period of time. On reaching my goal (in 2014), I decided to increase my calories slowly, about 100 extra a day for a month, then another 100 extra a day for the next month, and so on until my weight…