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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I'd just like to be able to stop exercising quite so much (an hour a day now) and start eating just a wee bit more. But I can't do that until I've reached my goal and now I'm wondering if I will ever do that.
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No, pretty much you'll never be able to do that. You were used to a high calorie diet, needed to maintain (or increase) your excess weight.
Now you aren't maintaining those 62lbs of excess weight, your daily energy requirement has reduced by at least 300 calories*, and perhaps considerably more.
If you exercise less and eat more, the weight will go back on.
You can exercise a little less, but be prepared to also cut back on your food intake a little as well, to balance the energy you're no longer expending.
*Although I haven't found an explicit source, calorie requirement calculations indicated that at least 6 calories per pound of weight are needed each day to maintain weight (in addition to other amounts based on height and age and a base load).