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No cravings is good. Even with good willpower and motivation they get the better of us sooner or later. Then, for me there's empty sweetie wrappers strewn everywhere!
Is 10 weeks going to be you at your goal weight or looks if your recomping, or just a break?
For anyone who is on a restricted calorie diet, with a goal weight in mind. Bear in mind three things when you reach your goal:-
Firstly and most importantly, nobody will ever be exactly xx.xKg day in day out. Somedays you may be .5kg under and some .5kg over. Dont worry about it unless somedays starts to turn into always one way or the other.
When you stop a restricted diet, your bodys glycogen store will fully replenish over a couple of days. Plus your salt balance may increase. Both of these will add some extra weight as both naturally carry extra water content.
Being lighter your body will be burning less daily calories than it used to. So if you go back to your previous pre diet maintenance food intake you will start to regain weight.
Because we are all different, it's almost impossible to get a definite figure for what would be maintenance/steady weight calories. So, if you've been tracking your calories and your approaching your goal weight, it's probably worth while adding 100-150cal per day for a week or two. You will probably still be loosing some weight but at a slower rate... add in some more untill you find the happy medium where your AVERAGE weight is on target.
Doing that gives you a few weeks with extra treats/portions to look forward to and it should save the traps of 2 and 3