How many calories after goal weight achieved?

[AnA92212 577]

I had surgery on April 27th of 2015. I reached the top end of my goal weight in January of this year. I am now 21 pounds below that. I've been eating about 900 to 1300 calories a day since January. My surgeon says I should never take in fewer than 800 calories and up to 1600 calories on heavy work out days. I haven't seen my NUT in a long time because everything has been going well. (I know, poor excuse). Just curious, what is typical for people that have reached goal weight? Some days I have trouble getting in 1000 calories and other days I could eat more. Just want some info. I do have an appointment with my NUT regarding nutrition for race/training days.

I am almost 39 years old

Female

current weight is 124

I am in training for a half marathon

Current exercise regimen:

run 4-10 miles, 5 days a week

Zumba, 1 hour per week

Body pump (weight lifting) 2 hours per week

Walk 3-5 miles, 1 day per week

I also have a 16 month old, work full time, and am in graduate school. I run around after her a couple hours a day, I work as an executive admin so I could sit all day or be running around all day.

[emme.vee 142]

???? I don't have any advice just good job! That's awesome.

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[JamieLogical 8,684]

Well, my goal weight was significantly higher than yours. So I don't know how comparable we are, but I am currently training for a marathon. According to my FitBit, I burn 2500 calories per day on average. I tracked my food for a little while when I was training for my half marathon back in April and I tried to eat as many calories as I was burning because I had lost a little more weight than I wanted. Once I got the hang of it, I stopped tracking again and I've been maintaining at about 5 pounds below goal with no issues. I'd say I get 1900-2400 calories in every day without really working on it too hard. I eat about 7 times a day now to make that happen, though....

[AnA92212 577]

That helps. Sometimes my surgeon and NUT are so far off from each other. Well, they were in the beginning. I see such ranges. Like some people are only eating 600 a day even a year post op. I average about 1200 to 1300 a day. I don't want to gain weight, but I don't want to lose either.

[JamieLogical 8,684]

That helps. Sometimes my surgeon and NUT are so far off from each other. Well, they were in the beginning. I see such ranges. Like some people are only eating 600 a day even a year post op. I average about 1200 to 1300 a day. I don't want to gain weight, but I don't want to lose either.

I think a lot of it has to do with how you lose the weight. If you stick to some ridiculously low calorie total during the weight loss phase, like 600 calories, then your metabolism isn't going to bounce back from that in maintenance. You are going to have to continue to eat a very restricted diet in order to maintain. If, however, you eat a more reasonable amount of calories and rely on increased activity for additional weight loss, then your metabolism never drops off significantly. So during the bulk of my weight loss phase (once I was fully recovered from surgery and eating solid foods and such) I was probably eating about 1400-1500 calories a day and burning maybe 400-600 through exercise. That allowed for a decent calorie deficit, thus I steadily lost weight.

Once I reached goal and wanted to stop losing weight, I increased my intake up over 2000 calories most days, so I didn't have much of a deficit, and I've been able to easily maintain at that level.