eating MORE calories WON'T make you gain weight

28 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise video, the speaker explains why increasing calorie intake after completing a weight‑loss diet does not automatically cause weight regain. He clarifies that once a person stops being in a calorie deficit and moves to a maintenance phase, they can safely add 500–1,000 calories per day because their metabolism and daily energy expenditure rise accordingly. The speaker emphasizes that the calorie‑deficit phase is not permanent, encourages viewers to stop restricting calories indefinitely, and directs them to a free calorie calculator linked in his bio for personalized deficit and maintenance numbers.

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You won't gain weight when you eat more calories. If your calorie deficit is 1,800 calories per day, when you get done losing weight and now you want to maintain your weight, you are going to increase your daily calories to your new maintenance calories because you no longer want to be in the calorie deficit because you don't want to lose the weight anymore. And for most people, this means you will eat an extra 500, 700, 1,000 calories per day and maintain your weight. This is because, number one, you're no longer in a calorie deficit, you're in a calorie maintenance. And number two, when you increase your calories, your metabolism and your daily calorie burn increases along with it. So your maintenance calories, how many calories you need to maintain your weight, increases along with it as well. So please don't think you're going to be in this calorie deficit forever and eat these low amount of calories forever. That's not the case. Get done with your calorie deficit and you can increase your calories. If you need to know what your calorie deficit or calorie maintenance is, just click the link in my bio. I got a free calorie calculator.