If I had to do it over again, I probably would have continued with the way I was eating before and then added calories if I needed to. My story is similar to yours, lost a bunch of weight, still working on the last 10 pounds. I followed the recommended calories according to the book's formula (I was so excited to eat more!), and ended up gaining 9 pounds through stage 1, though it is slowly coming back off (I've got 2 more workouts left in stage 3, have lost 4 of those 9), but that may be my body adjusting to be sure I'm getting the right amount of calories and macros. I vaguely remember a section in the book that says to maintain your caloric intake and then use stage 1 to assess where you are, i.e. more fatigued you need to increase calories, but I may be recalling that incorrectly. I have decided that this whole working out/eating clean thing is a big science experiment with one subject-are own individual selves.
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