Hello! I am looking forward to reaching my goal weight but was somewhat confused about how to maintain it. MummyDee and wholefoodnut (and a bunch of other people) mentioned the link to find your true RDI, in order to lose weight, gain weight or maintain weight. I finally looked at the RDI calculator to see how to maintain my goal weight. It said that if I am sedentary I can maintain my goal weight by eating 1400 calories a day. If I am active three days a week, I can have 1600 calories a day. I do not want to sit around and stop walking. It keeps me healthy and it definitely keeps my cholesterol lower. So my plan is to keep track of my food and compare it to my calories burned in exercise. Maintenance will not be easy, but I think I can handle it! http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html
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63,0 kg
Bisher verloren: 28,7 kg.
Still to go: 1,3 kg.
Diät befolgt: Recht gut.
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1059 kcal
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Fett: 36,53g | Eiw: 67,03g | Kohlh: 123,98g.
Frühstück: ProGrade Nutrition whey protein powder vanilla, Tap Water, Splenda No Calorie Sweetener Packets, Green Tea, Black Tea, Southern Grove Almonds, Trader Joe's Raw Brazil Nuts, Black Pepper, Great Value Low Fat Small Curd Cottage Cheese. Mittagessen: Splenda No Calorie Sweetener Packets, Black Tea, Tap Water, BetterBody Organic Chia Seeds, Fit & Active Peach iced tea (Fit&Active), Southern Grove Dry Roasted Unsalted Peanuts, Dried Whole Sesame Seeds, Wheat Montana Milled Flax Seed, Black Pepper, Millville Old Fashioned Oats. Abendessen: Casa Mamita Fat Free Refried Beans, Great Value Broccoli Florets, Baby Carrots, Happy Harvest Cut Asparagus Spears, Happy Farms Spirals String Cheese, Mission Foods Carb Balance Flour Tortillas (Soft Taco Size). Snacks/Sonstiges: Fit & Active Peach iced tea (Fit&Active), Wrigley Orbit Sugar Free Chewing Gum - White Spearmint, America's Choice Red Delicious Apple, Blueberries (Unsweetened, Frozen). mehr...
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Verlust von 1,3 kg pro Woche
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Kommentare
Gosh! You have to click on my journal to see the link. You tell it your age, gender, height, weight, and activity level. Then it will calculate how many calories you can eat to lose, gain or maintain. :)
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: Deb_N
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Deb, I think you really just have to try adding a bit and see what happens. I'm having trouble eating the 1400 it says I should eat. I'm staying the same though at less.
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: wholefoodnut
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You need the exercise for sure and remember, the more muscle you have, the more efficient your body works so do some kind of resistance training.
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: madanjen
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I'm so happy your are putting a plan in place to maintain a healthy weight and healthy (with exercise) lifestyle. Wow! Just look at how far you have come. J
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: JovialJ
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Thanks, everyone! I do the leg raises and planks first thing in the morning. It is easy to remember to do them because I mentioned it in my journal, so if I don't do them then I would be a liar and I cannot allow myself to do that. The abs are sore and I don't do them every day. I need to schedule in the resistance training.
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: Deb_N
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You CAN handle it! Congratulations on your weight loss!
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: Sadiebear
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Abs are killing me right now. Have done planks the last 3 days for one minute. OUCH! Good for you!
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: Sadiebear
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Congratulations on the weight loss and being able to do the exercises.
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: LadyGoblyn
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Congratulations on the weight loss and being able to do the exercises.
18 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: LadyGoblyn
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Deb, i have no doubt whatsoever that you will be able to maintain your weight loss. You have done such a remarkable job of losing the weight, and that takes a lot of determination, which you have shown you have. Best of luck to you.
19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: Tai-Lin
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Deb, just do slow changes, nothing major. Your woe and exercise have been a lifestyle change so keep on with your plan.
19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: wholefoodnut
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I think those calculations are estimates at best - not absolutes. As time passes with your activity your body will eventually convert fat to muscle and also reach set points where nothing will happen for a while. Prepare for that mentally - the not stepping on the scale and seeing a downward trend anymore. It's still hard for me to wrap my head around - as you know from my journals too - and yes, it's even harder than the initial loss.
19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: FullaBella
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You can't really go by the calculations. If you're currently on a low carb and you want to have them, you'll want to increase your calories by about a hundred a week. Keep adding until you hit stable weight. Wish I'd done it. I'm going to have to lose a few hear. Starting in November, the cut is on! What you could do if you've been on the same calories over time is calculate how fast you lost the weight and figure out how far under you were each day to get that. If you lost on average 1 pound every 10 days, divide 3500 (calories in a pound of fat) by 10. That means you're 350 calories under each day. You could add half of that for the first week and see how it goes. Then you can add more if you're still losing. As one person said to me, it's easier to celebrate weight loss than it is to celebrate nothing happening.
19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: northernmusician
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Deb your maintenance will be a success- you have dropped a lot weight by following a plan- just watching what you eat and then gradually adding more to figure out what your maintenance number is
19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: pwrestlephoto
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Thanks, everyone. I wanted to put the link to the calculator in my journal so I could look at it again and others could use it, too. NM, thanks for your method. I will study it.
19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: Deb_N
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19 Okt 14 vom Mitglied: TAIC69
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