How to maintain weight when goal weight is reached?

Question

When you go on a diet, for example, you ate 1500 calories before you went on a diet. So I cut 500, and ate only 1000 calories for two months to lose 10 pounds. Now that I've achieved my goal weight (yes!), I want to maintain it so bad, I swear. I don't want to gain weight AT ALL, after all the hard work I've done.

What I want to do though, is to eat 200-300 more calories a day than I used to. Doing that, will I gain weight? Is my body used to 1000 calories? I lost two pounds every week during my weight loss process. So... 500x7 = 3500 = 1 pound. I exercised 3-4 times a week (dancing as my cardio, approx 30-60 mins, sweat as much as possible), I tried to walk around as much as possible, so that helped a lot. So I lost 2 pounds a week.

SO NOW... If I ate 1200-1300 calories a day, I won't gain weight, am I not right? Since I'm not trying to lose weight anymore, and I don't want to gain. It seems pretty logical, right, that if I eat that much, I wouldn't gain?

Somebody answered this: You'll be fine, because your metabolism naturally burns between 1200 and 1700 calories (this is WITHOUT ANY EXERCISE). If you add the calories burned from exercise, you are still doing just fine.

But why will I still gain weight when the cutting back of 500 cal in my diet was for me losing weight? And now that I'm here, I don't want to lose weight anymore, I'm just trying to maintain, and doesn't that mean that adding 200-300 calories in my diet won't make me gain weight, because I naturally burn more than that?

Somebody answered this: You'll be fine, because your metabolism naturally burns between 1200 and 1700 calories (this is WITHOUT ANY EXERCISE). If you add the calories burned from exercise, you are still doing just fine.

But why will I still gain weight when the cutting back of 500 cal in my diet was for me losing weight? And now that I'm here, I don't want to lose weight anymore, I'm just trying to maintain, and doesn't that mean that adding 200-300 calories in my diet won't make me gain weight, because I naturally burn more than that?

Somebody answered this: You'll be fine, because your metabolism naturally burns between 1200 and 1700 calories (this is WITHOUT ANY EXERCISE). If you add the calories burned from exercise, you are still doing just fine.

But why will I still gain weight when the cutting back of 500 cal in my diet was for me losing weight? And now that I'm here, I don't want to lose weight anymore, I'm just trying to maintain, and doesn't that mean that adding 200-300 calories in my diet won't make me gain weight, because I naturally burn more than that?

Sorry, my internet really sucks right now. I don't get why I'm going to gain when my bmr (checked it in the internet) is 1300 something.

Answer 1

don't go hard on exercise and dieting,be selective in choosing the foodstuff .normal diet and exercise may help to maintain a constant weight.

Answer 2

You're right. Eat up. Tastes good doesn't it? Have some more. Seconds anyone? Don't forget dessert. What about Pudding? In the morning, late afternoon, middle of the night, dessert's dessert. Yum! Smear a little pudding all over your face!

Answer 3

your best bet is to increase your activity, and avoid soda, and eating out. It will all boil down to what your eating and what your doing for exercise, you wont be able to go back to being a fat 10 more pounder.

Answer 4

If you want to increase your calories, you'll need to increase your activity. Otherwise, you'll gain it back.

Sorry for the bad news.