thing is Laura did you ‘starve down the scale’ A BIT and severly control your intake to ‘make goal’ or did you eat all you ever required and always felt happy and full while losing the lbs? Cause that comes into play for sure cause when one ‘hits goals’ some crap happens…we think ‘now I can eat XYZ’ cause I ‘can control me’ and we hunger. Or we think I am smaller and ‘I should require less’ and that ain’t full truth at all. Then we might think ‘omg if I eat I will gain’ and that is putting crazy on us to eat less ya know. Alot of stuff hits at maintenance time and hitting our final goal.
I say just eat. Eat early morning a good keto breakfast and enjoy and then see where this hunger goes? Start the day fueled well and see if this ‘change up’ could be what you need…and just go from there. You gain back it all overnight making small smart changes on what works for you personally on how you need to roll ya know.
Maintenance is a whole new animal vs. ‘lose lose lose’ for goal at all cost.
Now you have to live daily with food choices and they gotta suit you and work ALL IN for you for maintenace, so monkey around a bit, eat a bit more, ‘don’t snack out’ on crap, if you ‘want anything’ you go all in and eat well til satisfied and then let that see how far it takes you.
Your body changed alot, your approach to daily maintenance and lifestyle now has to change with just that. and that is cool, cause people who hit goal have to do just this and if you know it, see it, change it up to suit you and all is cool then you found a sweet spot of long term maintenance. Hope some of that makes sense to ya I learned alot from long term success people cause once there, you are NOT in losing mode anymore, you are long term healthy maintenance and you havce to take a new step to work it for you on a personal level.