I would let your body and not the scale dictate. Keep eating as much as possible, for as long as possible.
Why? It's easier to eat more. You stay more satisfied, you get a nice, wide variety of nutrients. It also gives you more calorie wiggle room when you DO need it.
I would just keep eating 1800 until your weight loss plateaus (if it ever will). It might be at 250, it might be at 200, it might never? Who knows!
And by a plateau I don't mean one week where you don't lose weight (so many things can cause a weight bobble), but for several weeks where you are consistently, consciously on plan and the scale still won't budge. Even then, I would attack exercise first (before calories) and up the intensity of my workout for a couple of weeks. THEN drop calories by 100 a day.
As a maintainer, I am probably older than you (40) and a little shorter (5'7"). I maintain very comfortably around 1800 calories a day + one treat meal per week (dinner in a nice restaurant, glass of wine, split dessert).
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