Ending the diet? : Community Message Boards
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ou812m28
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Thu, Aug 26, 2010 16:08
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Ending the diet?
I am getting close to reaching my weight loss goal I set about 5 months ago. I am trying to find out what will be the best way to maintain my new weight. I have lost the weight by keeping to a 1200-1500 calorie diet, along with exercise and quite honestly, it works out very well for me. I like the portions, and although I had to cut out certain foods, I don't miss them and am not really eager to add them back into my diet. When I reach my goal, I will be switching my exercise routine around a bit, but I am not sure how to increase my daily calorie intake in order to quit losing pounds. Does anybody have any ideas?
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cat90
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Fri, Aug 27, 2010 14:08
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Congratulations!
Well, Congratulations on reaching your goal. If I were you I would gradually increase my calories by say 100 cals per day and see what happens. If you continue to lose then up them a little more until your weight remains constant. Good Luck.
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rawhippie
NY
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Mon, Aug 30, 2010 15:08
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Congrats!!
Congrats on reaching your goal!
To maintain most people eat what their BMR is. For the average person it's around 2000 calories. For those with huge muscles (body builders) it's a lot more and for those with small frames it's a lot less.
If you go to your diet dashboard it should show you what your BMR is. If you keep your calories around that then you'll be able to maintain pretty well.
It's good that you're not wanting to add the foods you eliminated from your diet. That's a problem a lot of people have and can cause weight gain if you're not careful (once in a while is fine, but some go overboard).
*hugs*
Jess
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BalncePersevres
Ottawa ON
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Fri, Sep 3, 2010 10:09
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Maintaining
I recently reached my weight goal (about 3 weeks ago), so I've been struggling with the same questions. The recommendation that I've read has been to increase your calories gradually, averaging 100-200 calories/day increase each week. As said in the OP post, monitor your weight to make sure that you're still holding - I've been staying with the daily weigh-ins to keep close tabs on my weight.
As for what level you should aim for, BMR is probably the bottom of your range. You've probably been exercising to build muscle and tone your body and increase your metabolism as you lost - I'd strongly encourage you to continue some level of cardio exercise (recommendations I've seen indicate at least 30 minutes, 3 times per week). I took a different approach, and started P90X the day after I hit my goal weight. This is a very intense workout, with an average burn of about 600 calories/day. To give you an indication of where I've gone with this, I was losing weight at 1950 cal/day average, and averaging about 500 cal/day burn with running/walking. Because of the increased demand of P90X, I jumped my calories up to 2550/day average (not a good approach, but it hasn't had bad effects so far). My BMR is about 2200 cal/day, and I do about 900 cal/day burn between P90X and walking/running. To maintain, I need about 3000+ cal/day average, and this seems accurate. I was feeling very low energy, so after two weeks at 2550/day, I went to 2750/day - still low energy, and down 1 lb from when I reached my goal. So I'm going to go up to 2950 this weekend, and continue monitoring that.
There are lots of good sites with calorie requirement calculators - BeachBody (the marketers of P90X and a bunch of other fitness programs) have one, as does the ScientificPsychic (with lots of comments about calorie restricted diets and other interesting nutrition/fitness information).
Good luck in the home stretch - let me know if this helped you!
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ou812m28
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Sat, Sep 4, 2010 13:09
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Ending the diet prt 2.
Thank you everyone for the great advice. I still have about 6 lbs left to lose, so I am figuring that I should be able to reach my goal in about 2-3 weeks. I appreciate the tips you all gave me and will be looking forward to changing things up here in a couple weeks. Good luck to everyone with their goals.
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