Maintenance is when you get to your happy place and decide not to get above a certain weight. My goal was 140p but I am now 139 and still losing. I don't want to get below 135 and not above 141p so I will just eat accordingly, continue to exercise and watch the scale.
I didn't diet, I still ate everything I always ate but in moderation. 1,300-1,450 cals was to lose, 1,700-1,800 will put me at maintenance so I can relax a little with food.
Checks and balances. After a year of this nonsense I know exactly what to do to gain and lose so I should be able to keep myself here. Hopefully.
Maintenance is maintaining your weight loss, not going above your goal weight. It doesn't happen without a lot of care, though, like dieting , trial and error, What works for one may not work for all.
Maintenance for me seems to be where I've no longer got a goal of losing over 100 pounds, or 50 pounds, or 25 pounds.
Instead I keep losing about five to 10 pounds over & over.
It's a state of mind for me, too. No aspirations to be thinner. Work at self-acceptance at where I am, at least as far as my body's appearance. I do hope to become more fit, but it's less about things being tighter or shifting than about being able to perform certain actions (pullups, consecutive pushups, weights that I can lift).
Maintenance for me seems to be where I've no longer got a goal of losing over 100 pounds, or 50 pounds, or 25 pounds.
Instead I keep losing about five to 10 pounds over & over.
It's a state of mind for me, too. No aspirations to be thinner. Work at self-acceptance at where I am, at least as far as my body's appearance. I do hope to become more fit, but it's less about things being tighter or shifting than about being able to perform certain actions (pullups, consecutive pushups, weights that I can lift).
I echo saef's wise words here. For me, losing weight started with health and somewhere along the way took a detour into vanity (which isn't necessarily inherently bad). I thought I could go lower and lower and somehow reach a magic level of "perfect." But then I realized there is no such thing.
My maintenance journey (saga!) is becoming about keeping the health and fitness I've gained and making peace with the things I can't change, like loose skin, an apple shape, a round face, being short, etc. I'd like to maintain within a 5 pound range, which I am currently over, but that's also more about health and not buying new clothes.
What IS maintenance?
