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This was really helpful for me - thanks. I’m a CICO person too. Sounds like we have a similar psychological approach - I just can’t figure out how I want to ‘introduce’ the extra calories now I’m in a healthy/sustainable routine which is below maintainable calories. Might just play with a post workout shake - which will help with recovery/body composition too (which have so far been secondary goals to just shedding some weight.)
In somewhat comi-tragic news, having hit goal weight, I’ve also tested +ve for Covid19 so now 0 exercise, and I am ravenous all the time weirdly.
kkg337
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I have / had the same concerns, and I have invested a lot of thought into sustainability.
For me, that means what I eat during dieting is, by and large, the same things I will eat afterwards (and before, for the most part, less bags of crisps, bars of chocolate, all the patisserie, and butter with everything).
When I come off the diet, all I'm doing is being less exact on my meals - no more weighing and logging, but still keeping an eye on portions.
It helps that I'm a big CICO proponent - eat less, lose weight.
Diets that substitute and radically change what you eat are antithetical to good dietary practice, and while they work (because restrictive diets mean less calories in...) they're not so great for ongoing maintenance, unless you keep them up in perpetuity.
Everyone's MMV, of course.