If you’ve been dieting for a while — say about six months — and you’ve stayed around 1,500 to 1,700 calories while doing a lot of cardio and losing weight consistently, when you hit a plateau and someone tells you to do more cardio and eat less, don’t take that at face value.
I highly recommend that you think about taking a maintenance break, where you aren’t eating at your deprivation calorie level. Instead, you’ll eat at your maintenance calorie level, and then go back to that 1,500 to 1,700 calories range. [Read more…] about What You Should Do If You Stop Losing Weight
I want to tell you something I wish someone had told me when I was losing weight: If you had a slip-up this weekend, you went off your plan, whatever, it’s not a moral failing. You’re not a bad person. You are actually doing exactly what you’re supposed to do.
Leading up to a community meeting, the topic that people wanted to discuss was calories — how many should I be eating, things like macros. One discussion that came up that I thought was really interesting was about the maintenance mindset in relation to everyday living.