Why am I gaining weight at maintenance ?
Hi there!! I recently lost about 45 lbs and now sit around 5’1 125 lbs. After I got off my diet I slowly increased calorie count back to my normal maintenance, which is around 1500 calories (Basically added 100 cals each week till I got back to normal). It was perfectly fine for a while, but then I noticed over about two weeks I’ve gone up a few pounds gradually and now I’m close to 128-130. Just kind of annoying, it won’t stop gradually going up. I eat at maintenance everyday (and honestly sometimes less because I just don’t have much appetite) and do about an hour of light exercise everyday (I can’t imagine I’m burning more than like, 200 calories in the hour with this exercise). I weigh out ALL my portions per gram so I just don’t know what’s wrong. Any idea? Thanks Reddit!!