The Meaning of Maintenance

My plan is to take a break from having a calorie deficit until the end of September. I've been eating between 1,600-1,700 calories. LoseIt gives me a maintenance budget of almost 2,200.

My goals:

• Eat 2,000-2,100 calories per day of nutritious food.
• Avoid junk foods.
• Keep consumption of sweets to a minimum.
• Eat fewer cereal bars and more salad.
• Drink water instead of soda and flavored water.
• Walk for 30 minutes most days.

Essentially what I'm doing is keeping up the same good habits I've developed, but allowing myself a little more freedom. We'll see how this goes after about a week.