Need some advice

Okay, I am almost to my goal of 112 lbs (I'm 5'4" 20yo female). Right now I'm at 113.5lbs. I like the way I look, I just think its satisfying to achieve goals. 

The problem is I keep eating around 1700 calories everyday for the past week. I work out between one to two hours 6 days a week. I do a combination of either kickboxing, running, weights and Bosu. I also do free weights, it all just depends on what I'm in the mood for. 

First, Does anyone know how many calories a Bosu weights class and a an intense kick-boxing class burns? 

Second, I've started feeling really really guilty every time I eaet over 1400 calories. I am scared that I am going to gain weight. Today I ate around 1700 ( I am trying not ot count extremely strictly because I want to one day eat healthily without depending on CC), but I worked out for two hours, doing Bosu and kickboxing. I am just so scared that I'm going to gain weight, and I feel really guilty and nervous. i don't know what to do to alleviate this feeling. I know its not a realistic fear. But yesterday I ate 1700, and I didn't even work out, as it was friday and I wanted to go out. 

What do you guys think? How can I stop feeling guilty? Will I gain weight? Ahh!

I know exactly how you feel. But 1700 is not a lot at all, even for a sedentary person of your age. Plus, you work out and are active, so please don't be anxious or feel guilty. Bosu and kickboxing is very good, don't know the calories, but it sounds fun and you get a good workout :-) Definitely eat more than 1400, you really need it. Food is fuel and nourishment and your body requires it to survive. Eating enough makes you beautiful, repairs your cells, hair....you know that stuff. Enjoy your life and aim for health, not to be a certain weight. <3 And I don't think you gain. If you do, it's just a fluctuation but it's not permanent. Tell yourself, as long as you feel healthy and happy, you are beautiful. Plus, there are many goals in life other than weight that you can achieve. 

30 to 40% of young women who begin a diet become compulsive about their weight. Of those in that category, 30-40% of them go on to develop a full-blown eating disorder.

There is some genetic markers for abnormal seratonin levels in the brain that seem to trigger certain people to develop anorexia or bulimia from an attempt at dieting. Not to say this is you, but you may want to take the foot off the pedal and coast for a while, because feelings of guilt and nervousness are warning signs.

You are happy with how you look. Just stay there for a while. It's a pound and a half and you can revisit that goal in six months after you maintain where you are.

To maintain, given your intense activity level, you need to eat around 2600 each day. You need 2000 to be alive and then additional 600-800 to cover off your intense workouts. To feel guilty if you are over 1400 calories is not a good thing. At 1700 you are still creating a serious deficit.

And if you really, really need that 1.5 lbs to go before you go to maintenance, then start eating 2000 a day now and in a couple of weeks you will likely be at the goal weight, then get used to eating 2600 immediately at that point.

As for gaining the weight again, our bodies are not machines, they are living ecosystems. They expand and contract. It only requires an ability to eat and exercise intuitively to make sure that the expansions and contractions are in that 5-10 lbs range.

If you feel as if you cannot let go of micro-managing the weight and exercise, then it's a good time to speak with a counselor -- nipping in the bud the feelings of being out of control, guilt-ridden thoughts about food intake and exercise, and fear of gaining always pays off big time.

I hope this helps and I'd like to at least take a moment to congratulate you on getting to a place where you like how look -- that is a fabulous thing!

Hi teevee!

I've been going trough the same thing the last few weeks. I'm 5'3 and have just reached my goal weight of 118 lbs. But it feels like I am programmed to lose weight, as if my stomach has shrunk or something, and I don't feel like I need more food than what I ate for losing. AND I am deadly afraid of gaining, because I'm so damn happy with the way I look now.

Well, I don't work out quite as intensely as you are, but I can tell you that you are underestimating your calorie burn. You can get to 1700 just by walking around a bit and doing some chores! That does not include kickboxing or running yet! I can tell you what I'm doing. I want to know for sure. I have my account set to sedentary, and that gives me a burn of about 1520 cals. And then I add in all the activity, including the walk from the tram to campus etc. To measure the calories, I wear a heart rate meter for my work outs, that counts how many calories I burn based on the heartrate and my stats. I add that to the activity log and at the end of the day I make sure I eat as much as I burnt. Since I am still programmed to weight loss, I am mostly at like 1500 after dinner, and if I worked out a lot, I'm still missing like 400 cals. Then I start snacking on healthy, more or less calorie dense foods, like almonds or dried fruit for example :) Doesn't fill me too much, doesn't make me feel guilty (although it took getting used to, too) and it's tasty. This may seem a rather weird way of dealing, but it works for me for the time being, and I can learn how to spread my healthy snacks of the evening over the entire day. My ultimate goal is to learn how to estimate my calorie burn, and to eat accordingly without counting, but that might still take a bit. For now, I like being precise (or as precise as can be, I realise it's all an estimate) and it works, seeing how I'm neither gaining nor losing.

Sorry for the long explanation, but I hope this helps ;)

i think your weight is low enough especially with your height. it sound like you burn enough calories to lose weight, you might want to maintain weight at this point.

on average kick boxing for 1 hour will burn about 800 calories, this is what what a kickbowing instructor told me, so its pretty trustworthy. I really wouldnt worry about eating over 1400 calories, 1200 is the minimum for woman and 1600 to 1800 is about what you should be eating to maintain for your age. Good luck