[elvislover324]

These are all great suggestions! I am learning how to focus more on fruits and vegetables than the other trigger foods that I so enjoy.

Don't worry Mozzy, one-derland is the goal!!! The only reason maintenance came up was because I changed up my diet with my nutritionist increasing my calories a day about 200-300 adding in some new foods and it's stressing me out! Losing the first 100lbs was so important to me and it seems like it came so quickly now that it's done.

(I don't like change once I am in a groove and adding in these extra calories is stressing me out, even though they are coming strictly from fruit and vegetables.)

[April Snow]

I do the home "salad bar" thing too. Clean all the lettuce, and peel and cut up everything else, including cooked chicken or other protein to include on my salad. It definitely makes a huge difference to just be able to put it all together in a couple of minutes each morning.

Although right now, my office gets way too cold for salad - all I ever bring for lunch is soup! lol!

[April Snow]

oh, also, the other thing I like to do is roast a big batch of veggies all at once, and then just have re-heat a portion at a time to have as a side dish or a snack.

[CherryQuinn]

I'm 205 lbs and I maintain at roughly 2000 calories a day. at 175lbs if I ate 2300 calories I would probably gain a lb a week. Every body is different and your maitenance calories will be something you figure out once you get there through experimentation. I know what mine is from having periods where I maintained because of life events.