Your maintenance around 125?

[Anonymous]

If you weigh around 125, what do you eat for maintaining it?
Whats your typical day, and are there treats occasionally? Soda, brownies, chips?

I’m not interested in activity, but I guess include details if you want to. I personally have no issues with a very active lifestyle. But i struggle with a love of treats. It’s like a personality trait for me.

[Anonymous]

5'3", 63 years old, and lost weight years ago and need to watch every calorie or it comes back. What I eat on a regular day: breakfast varies from a small cottage cheese, to a diced apple with 1/2 cup oatmeal. Lunch is veggies and protein, so could be grilled chicken on a salad, or soup with beans/chickenn/vegetables, or some pot of something I cooked up. Snack is baby carrots or bell pepper or celery and fruit (mango, pomegranate, whatever looks good), dinner is more protein, vegetables and carb - sweet potato, quinoa etc, no pasta or rice

Yes I eat desserts on occasion- if someone made something homemade and delicious, I'm out celebrating someone's birthday, etc. Dessert is not every day, maybe twice a month, and it's a few bites, never the entire thing. Cheese is similarly rare for me.

[Anonymous]

Suddenly I am happier overweight

[Anonymous]

I'm 5'4 and around 120.

Breakfast is always oatmeal cooked with a little milk, topped with walnuts and fresh berries.

I usually graze all day between breakfast at 5:30 and dinner at 7:30 or 8. I usually have plain Greek yogurt with more berries, an apple, a banana, plant protein bar, peanuts, cottage cheese, raw veggies. I could eat a side of beef and still be hungry 2 hours later so I try to keep it lighter.

Dinner is whatever DH cooks. Usually meat, carb, vegetable.

I always have dessert (serving of ice cream or maybe nice chocolate). Oh and a canned espresso and cream and a lot of black coffee.

So yeah, not exactly starving myself. I do feel like my metabolism is good.

I do 2 hrs of strength and 5-6 hours of cardio (peloton) per week. I should add some yoga at my age.

[Anonymous]

5’7 125. I have an English muffin first thing waking up. With butter and jelly. Then a small bowl of cereal later. Then a cookie.
Lunch- whatever. Chips and salsa, a smoothie w five servings of fruits/veggies because I hate them and want to get it over with.
Supper - a chicken breast w buffalo sauce.
I eat very minimally after 11 am.

I teach yoga or barre daily. I lift heavy.

[Anonymous]

5’1 and 125. I ate pretty much everything. I rarely eat breakfast though. We eat healthfully but I still eat dessert.

125 was way too high for my frame though.

[Anonymous]

What a weird way to frame it, divorced from height and muscle tone. You must be really attached to that number.

[Anonymous]

5'4 125, late 40s and eat whatever I want, usually have ice cream every other night... but you can't really talk about this without activity. I do some sort of activity- whether tennis, pilates, cario, weights, 6 times a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5'4 125, late 40s and eat whatever I want, usually have ice cream every other night... but you can't really talk about this without activity. I do some sort of activity- whether tennis, pilates, cario, weights, 6 times a week.

This is me, too, except I’m taller. Late 40s, eat lots of carbs and ice cream and wine and whatever else I want. I run a ton, though. That’s the key for me. I would look better with a few more pounds, but with the running I can’t put them on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5'3", 63 years old, and lost weight years ago and need to watch every calorie or it comes back. What I eat on a regular day: breakfast varies from a small cottage cheese, to a diced apple with 1/2 cup oatmeal. Lunch is veggies and protein, so could be grilled chicken on a salad, or soup with beans/chickenn/vegetables, or some pot of something I cooked up. Snack is baby carrots or bell pepper or celery and fruit (mango, pomegranate, whatever looks good), dinner is more protein, vegetables and carb - sweet potato, quinoa etc, no pasta or rice

Yes I eat desserts on occasion- if someone made something homemade and delicious, I'm out celebrating someone's birthday, etc. Dessert is not every day, maybe twice a month, and it's a few bites, never the entire thing. Cheese is similarly rare for me.

Sounds like i’d rather be fat.

[Anonymous]

I'm short and around 120. I don't eat breakfast but I drink a lot of coffee with whole milk. Lunch is a piece of fruit and leftovers, since most days I'm at work. Dinner is...whatever I want to make. I do have small treats pretty regularly now that I'm maintaining and not trying to lose. The biggest issue for me is just limiting portion size at dinner.

[Anonymous]

5'4", around 125, I eat pretty much what I want including dessert every night and way too much soda. However, it is my natural preference to eat small lunches and breakfasts, so I may not have a huge caloric intake simply because I consider some apple slices and peanut butter to be a sufficient lunch. Breakfast is usually whole milk yogurt with some blueberries and granola, but a smallish serving. Dinner I eat everything though -- meat, dairy, carbs. Plus, yes, dessert.

I don't drink alcohol anymore. Not an addiction thing and not a diet thing, I just stopped being able to deal with it. It gives me headaches.

I am generally very active (tennis, kayaking, weight lifting, yoga) but do go through periods where I'm lazy, like the one I'm in right now. I always get like this when the weather gets cold because it means I have to switch to indoor workouts, which annoys me, so I'll start avoiding it for a while. But probably in a week or two I'll start feeling annoyed by the lack of exercise and get back into it. I don't weight myself except at the doctor so for all I know I gain weight during these lazy periods, but it doesn't seem to impact how my clothes fit so whatever.

[Anonymous]

Age/hormones matters. Efforts to maintain 125 at age 30 vs 40 vs 50 can be light years apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5'3", 63 years old, and lost weight years ago and need to watch every calorie or it comes back. What I eat on a regular day: breakfast varies from a small cottage cheese, to a diced apple with 1/2 cup oatmeal. Lunch is veggies and protein, so could be grilled chicken on a salad, or soup with beans/chickenn/vegetables, or some pot of something I cooked up. Snack is baby carrots or bell pepper or celery and fruit (mango, pomegranate, whatever looks good), dinner is more protein, vegetables and carb - sweet potato, quinoa etc, no pasta or rice

Yes I eat desserts on occasion- if someone made something homemade and delicious, I'm out celebrating someone's birthday, etc. Dessert is not every day, maybe twice a month, and it's a few bites, never the entire thing. Cheese is similarly rare for me.

ok not applicable to most

[Anonymous]

I’m 5’6 and 130 lb—so in your ballpark. I have chia overnight oats most mornings topped with walnuts and berries (I use 2% milk, some plain Greek yogurt, dates for the sweetener, and flavorings such as vanilla, cocoa powder, cardamom, etc.). Lunch is usually a big salad made with leftover roasted veggies, arugula, quinoa or other whole grains, and some leftover protein or goat cheese). Dinner is balanced (I’m into cooking) but I limit refined carbs, highly processed foods, and saturated fats. I have an afternoon snack—usually fruit and nuts but rarely eat dessert.