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?
2007-01-09 20:17:56 · 18 answers · asked by natalia_g 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
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?
2007-01-09 20:19:21 · update #1
Think of it this way: when you were eating 1500 calories a day, before you went on the diet, were you maintaining that weight or were you gaining? Your body burns calories just doing the day to day things you normally do. The functioning of your organs alone burns calories...as does breathing, believe it or not.
Anyway, when you want to lose weight, you take in fewer calories than you expend. When you gain, you take in more than you expend. To maintain, you just need to eat as many calories as your body burns in a day. For women of average height, that's about 1200 - 1400 calories a day. But you're exercising quite a bit, so you could probably go up a bit more than that and be just fine.
Just increase your caloric intake by 400 calories a day to start. If you're still losing weight (which I suspect you will), then increase it by 100 more a day. If you gain weight, then decrease it by 100 calories. You'll eventually find the right caloric intake for your body.
2007-01-09 20:31:38 · answer #1 · answered by Sydney 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking the question again for reassurance?
You can increase your calorie intake to 1300, you have sped up your metabolism and have increased your work out time.
You see if you stay on a good calorie/pyramid meal plan as well as excercise at least 45 minutes a day or 4-5 days a week you will be fine burning the same amount of calories you need to.
If you need a calorie analysis done on you email me and I can send you over one.
Other than that enjoy food and life and stay healthy
2007-01-09 20:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by Ask a Health Nut 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
standard weight (asian):-
male : (height)cm - 80 x 0.7 +/- 10%
female: (height)cm - 70 x 0.6 +/- 10%
your weight x 40 or 45 = calories u needed/ day (male)
your weight x 30 or 35 = calories u needed/ day (female)
when you Accumulate 7700 calories = 1 kg of fat
self awareness on food and calories is important.
do constantly exercise
diet wihout any food will slow down the metabolism.
2007-01-09 20:46:29 · answer #3 · answered by yogachaitanya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're proper. Eat up. Tastes well does not it? Have a few extra. Seconds any one? Don't disregard dessert. What approximately Pudding? In the morning, overdue afternoon, core of the night time, dessert's dessert. Yum! Smear a bit pudding in every single place your face!
2016-09-03 19:37:32 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But what if you go to something like an extreme diet, something that you don't or shouldn't maintain for like 6 months or longer. What should you try then?
2007-01-09 20:45:41 · answer #5 · answered by David S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eat fewer calories than you burn to lose weight
2015-05-05 05:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
walk a toy poodle for 41 minutes at 2 miles per hour
2015-12-30 15:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
distracted dining will get you in trouble avoid eating in front of a television or in a movie theater as you re bound to consume more calories
2016-01-26 16:47:41 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people who regularly weigh themselves and keep track of their progress in a journal are more likely to lose weight
2015-12-11 19:46:05 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go for kettlebell workouts to burn more calories in less time
2015-12-15 23:35:15 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋