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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That was a big cheat meal OP. In all honesty most women of your age who want to be thin eat much less. [/quote]

Eat much less than 1300 calories with a larger meal every couple of months?  Really?[/quote]

OP, you are coming across as a not reliable narrator. 1300 calories minus a glass of wine is 1000-1100 calories. Very few 5’6” woman can regularly eat this and work out hard and be at 155. I suspect you have more frequent “cheats” than your OP claims. [/quote]

This is OP. I eat more than 1300 calories when I am trying to maintain weight loss. That is what I eat when I am trying to lose weight. But if seems like I can’t eat more than 1300 calories ever if I want to maintain because the weight just creeps back up. I don’t know how many calories I am eating when not in diet mode since I don’t want to log food for the rest of my life if I don’t have to.[/quote]

I empathize with this a lot.  I think the reason you might be "gaining weight" when you go above 1300 calories is because you're eating more, specifically more carbs and salt (from eating more food general which is seasoned).  Thus, you gain water weight as water is attracted to these molecules.  In addition, when you're in a deficit, your body will use up the glucose you have in your muscles first, which will decrease water weight as now there's less sugars for water to stick onto.  So that first weight gain you see from increasing calories is a double whammy: more water weight from more food and no more loss of water weight from less food.

I think you should just try to eat normally and see how much "weight gain" happens.  Then when you diet, you know that seeing 145 on the scale will really translate to 145 + x weight when you get off the diet.[/quote]

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