im scared to eat maintenence calories

i just reached my weight goal today! 130 pounds! i weigh what i did last year at this time! i'm happy  (:

of course, now that i've reached my goal, i want to stop losing weight. but im scared to jump from eating 1300 calories a day to eating 1700. what do i do? should i build up to it? like tomorrow eat 1400, then 1500, then 1600, then 1700? it is my deathly fear to gain my weight back again.

and i'm also scared that i lost weight too fast. i went from 152 to 130 in a span of 7 weeks. thats roughly 3 pounds a week. am i normal? i'm 14, and i'm 5'7. please help! im so afraid of gaining weight!

first off, congratulations on reaching your goal weight! you should be really happy :D and i'd say yeah, ease into it. maybe add 200 cals every week and go from there?

woo hoo!!!!!!

I thing you should add 100 calories every week then weigh in. see what happened :) when you stop losing stick to that weight! but I wouldnt add more then 100 a week so you get a good idea (and a smaller calorie range) of where you need to be

Well, I'm not an expert, but I'd say you should be fine, as long as you increase your calories slowly.

Just to be careful, I would go up 100 calories every other day, and there's no way to be sure, so you have to see what happens.

Once you do reach 1700 cals, after maybe 1-2 weeks, see what happened.

If you gained a bit, go down in cals, and if you still lost, then maybe gradually up your cals a bit more. And if it's about right, then WONDERFUL! <3

And congrats on reaching your weight. I'm so jealous, I've got such a long way to go: I'm almost 15, female, 5'5", large-framed, and 188 lbs. My goal weight is 120.

So good luck with that, and keep doing this little method I geniously created every so often.. for some reason I think it might work.

At least that's what I would do. Just don't eat my soul if I screwed you up, lol.

yeah, a week would be better, acutally. It's alright if you go a little under your goal weight. :3

I added back 100 calories a day, per week,  so 1300 the first week, 1400 the next.  My goal had been 133, so I continued to lose a little doing it this way... was down to 130 before I stabilized at 1500.  I dropped a couple more this past sprning, not intended, so am now 128.

So if you do it a little at a time, continue to track it, you'll do fine. I weigh in every day, and then figure the average for the week. I compare week to week to see if I am gaining or losing. I lose very slightly on 1500. So when I drop under 128, I eat 200 more, so regulate my weight this way. I am seldom over 128.