So I've been on this whole fitness journey for almost 14 months at this point, and I am ~6lbs away from my goal weight. I don't really want to overshoot my goal weight by too much, so I need to increase my calories for a soft landing at maintenance calories. I'm currently eating between 2000-2200 calories per day, and based on my rate of weight loss over the past 6 weeks, I am in about a 700-calorie-per-day deficit. So I need to bump up from 2200 to around 2900.
The issue I am having is that it was hard enough fitting in an extra 400 calories per day when I went from 1800->2200 calories. Like, I mean literally fitting those calories into my body is difficult because we have swapped entirely over to high-volume, low-calorie foods. I have about 800-900 calories between 5am and 1pm (protein coffee for breakfast, fruit/habanero/yogurt/granola bowl for mid-morning snack, chicken burger or hot dog for lunch) then I usually have stir fry for dinner for about 1k calories, then a snack before bed that is another fruit/yogurt/granola bowl for around 300 calories. The stir fry usually fills up an entire 60oz pho bowl to the brim and weighs 3-4lbs.
If I want to add more calories to this with my current methods, there will physically not be space inside of me to fit the extra 700 calories into this meal. I could spread them out over my other stuff that I eat, but I'm going to have a similar issue with volume. I don't necessarily want to add more meals/snacks because that's just more stuff to keep on top of timing-wise, and I can get off schedule pretty easily depending on what I have going on with work/life things.
I don't really want to fall into the trap of adding stuff like cheese, butter, or sauces back to the mix because that can spiral out of control pretty quickly.
what did yall do when you got to maintenance and had to bump your calories by a significant amount?
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