[this is me thinking out loud/rant about maintenance.]
At 5’5 I am not a short woman. But I am smallish and certainly smaller than most men. I’ve been trying to figure out why maintenance has been a hard concept for me. I changed my calories in MFP today to maintenance and initially felt a wave of relief… but then dread? Dread that my maintenance was only 200 cal more than my cut (which was purposeful! I wanted to lose slowly!).
I think it’s because as a shorter person, it’s ingrained in me that 200 calories is the difference between gaining, maintenance, and loss. And so because I’ve been so careful these last few weeks, the idea of eating 200 cal more is very odd.
Like… someone who was cutting a 500 cal deficit could still eat more than the deficit and lose weight. I couldn’t really do that. And now I’m asking myself mentally to be okay with the one thing I couldn’t do—eat 200 more calories.
Ahhh it’s so silly! I’ve been cranky and tired and bloated. I need to eat at maintenance—I reached my goal! But it felt weird changing my goal in MFP!
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