What has been your biggest struggle at maintenance?

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  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    edited November 2015
    aarar wrote: »
    I'm 2 years into maintenance and my biggest struggle has been not falling back into my old ways. It's ridiculously easy to slowly slide back without even realizing it, once the excitement of losing weight has worn off.

    The weight loss phase has a beginning and an end; you're motivated and excited. You're buying new clothes, watching the numbers on the scale go down, and everyone tells you how great you look ALL THE TIME. It's easy to feel like you can do this forever because you feel amazing.

    Then all that stops. The new you, becomes just the regular you. The excitement of buying clothes in smaller sizes goes away and it's just your regular size.

    In past failed attempts, I never looked beyond the weight loss phase when in reality it's SO important to have a plan in place to keep motivated going once you've hit your goal. For me the focus had to shift from weight loss goals to fitness goals. I still love to eat and I'm still prone to binge eating, but when I think about how far I've come with my running and how much I stand to lose, it becomes a little easier to get myself under control faster. Either way though, I'm pretty sure it'll be a lifelong struggle which I'm fine with; I just tackle each day as it comes and don't dwell on the bad ones.

    This is me, except 14 months into my maintenance.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Not having that little "high" of losing weight all of the time.
  • Holly_Wood_888
    Holly_Wood_888 Posts: 268 Member
    I struggle to maintain ... the reasoning is my lack of prepping - things become unbalanced - I eat kind of randomly instead of having my lean protein, veggies and fruit at lunch and dinner. Also I am tempted by refined sugar ! Its very addictive - I have to keep it out of my home.
  • JeanCricket
    JeanCricket Posts: 176 Member
    My biggest struggle was figuring out how many daily calories to have during maintenance. MFP recommendation was too low and I kept losing. After adding about 100 calories a day, I found the right balance :-) Now I'm maintaining at around 1600 cals/day...

    I still log every day which keeps me aware and honest about my intake :-)
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