Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 16:57     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
5'6.5" and 130 right now which is too much for me. I like to be at 125 or less. I have a bit of a muffin top right now. Usually, I eat whatever I want, and I do not eat healthily. Bagel and eggs for breakfast, pizza or turkey sandwich and chips for lunch, normal meat and potatoes and vegetable for dinner. A cookie or two. I'm 50 and seem to have gained 5 lbs. To get back, I could eat cottage cheese and fruit plus salads with no cheese and very little dressing for lunch and cut the cookies. I've been drinking too much lately too because you know, life.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 16:54     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Anonymous wrote: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.


How old are you?
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 16:53     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Breakfast: Cottage cheese with everything but the bagel seasoning or greek yogurt with 1-2 TBSP of granola. Maybe a small portion of fruit.

Lunch: Chick pea, feta, and spinach salad, half a turkey wrap, a small portion of yesterday's leftovers

Snack: Protein shake

Dinner: Lots of veggies and a protein, usually a small salad, too.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 16:27     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Op here, I just came back and saw page 2!

I am 5’0”
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 18:05     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Anonymous wrote:
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


Are you new? I’m pretty sure it’s applicable to most people on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 17:54     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Anonymous wrote:What a weird way to frame it, divorced from height and muscle tone. You must be really attached to that number.


Exactly my thought. Absolutely meaningless. And activity is important too.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 15:50     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
5’6 120 - mid 40s
Coffee with protein shake for breakfast
Salad for lunch
Roasted vegetables and beans for dinner
Snacks are usually popcorn or fruit

Rarely drink alcohol, I do eat small amounts of sweets if it’s something special. I walk 90 minutes a day with the dog and strength train 6 days a week.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 14:27     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
I'm 5'7'', 130 pounds, late 30s and I'm going to be honest, I focus mostly on adding (like eating overnight oats with chia for the fiber, adding fruit and veggies into things) and not restricting. I try to avoid drinking calories (soda and alcohol are rare). I focus a lot on being active though big cardio days leave me very hungry. But I'm not overly restrictive, I eat ice cream and bake desserts with my kids.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 14:15     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?

I'm 5'4" and 120lbs, and my vice is chocolate.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 14:12     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
125lb at 5’4’’ requires different maintenance from 125lb at 5’8’’ so you should include height. Also, your muscle mass makes a huge difference. I am 40, female, 5’4’’. My weight stays around 122 if I eat whatever I want including daily sweets and don’t exercise. I like myself more when I am around 115 so that means limiting starchy carbs and dairy, lots of walks, strength training and hiit on regular basis.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 09:29     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Anonymous wrote: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.


I am short and also weight 120. I eat 3 meals a day plus dessert. I feel like what you're describing is what most people assume "miserable thin people" eat like. And it does sound awful!
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2025 18:09     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
I'm short, and was too skinny at 106. Now I'm around 112-120, much healthier, and eat whatever I want but limit portion size. At 130, I felt not fit and too heavy, and I lost weight by limiting portion size. I've never been into processed snacks, but I used to make cookies and eat them all! I no longer make cookies.

Don't get too attached to a number, because muscle weighs more than fat. I was really weak when I was super skinny.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2025 18:01     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Above PP again. Exercise for me is 45 minute brisk walk 5 days/week, pilates twice a week, doubles tennis once a week.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2025 17:58     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
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.


Nearly identical food intake here to maintain 125 lbs at 5’4”, age 57. I feel like I live on a diet 😂.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2025 10:30     Subject: Your maintenance around 125?
Anonymous wrote:Age/hormones matters. Efforts to maintain 125 at age 30 vs 40 vs 50 can be light years apart.


Agree. I'm 50, 5'3" now and I eat like a bird.

In my 20s and 30s I ate anything and everything and stayed in the 118-124 lbs. range.

Then 40s hit and I went all the way up to 138 lbs. with previous eating habits.

Now in my 50s I do intermittent fasting. So that means black coffee and water until 2pm.. Then I eat small meals and one bigger meal for dinner. It keeps me on the 128-130lbs weight range.

As you get older the saying "you are what you eat" becomes very real....