When going from a weight loss diet to a maintenance how should one add additional calories?
Should you slowly add calories each week until getting to maintenance level or add all additonal calories at once?
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Sign up to join this communityMy general recommendation is the same whether you used a hypocoloric diet (i.e. just cutting calories) or a low/no-carb diet:
The best method of diet success is a two step process:
So why 5 pounds higher than the target weight? Your body weight can swing close to that much between water retention, undigested food still in your stomach/intestines, etc. However, once you hit that number it's probably most likely a little more fat than you want. Fix it while the problem is small, and you might be able to do it with just one no-carb day.