What's your plan for maintenance?
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Maintenance scares me to death!! I actually hit my goal weight this weekend but have yet to switch to maintenance. I feel like I need to lose another 5 pounds or so. Everyone tells me I have lost enough and any more weight loss will make me look sickly. I'm not sure if I actually need to lose the 5 more pounds or if it's the fear of switching to maintenance holding me back. For 2.5 years I have ate at a deficit. I don't even know how to do maintenance!! I've decided until I am ready, I will continue to eat at a small deficit.
So I guess that was a long winded way to say I have no plan yet for maintenance....lol.
congratulations for hitting your goal though!0 -
For maintenance I'll add a serving or two of fruit and a couple more servings of veg a day. I won't be doing anything too crazy, otherwise I'll bloat back up again.0
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Maintenance scares me to death!! I actually hit my goal weight this weekend but have yet to switch to maintenance. I feel like I need to lose another 5 pounds or so. Everyone tells me I have lost enough and any more weight loss will make me look sickly. I'm not sure if I actually need to lose the 5 more pounds or if it's the fear of switching to maintenance holding me back. For 2.5 years I have ate at a deficit. I don't even know how to do maintenance!! I've decided until I am ready, I will continue to eat at a small deficit.
So I guess that was a long winded way to say I have no plan yet for maintenance....lol.
Congratulations!0 -
Losing weight becomes tough as one approaches goal weight. Seems to me - only a very small change (if at all) is needed during maintenance.0
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Congrats @pjdunning!!0
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So I guess that was a long winded way to say I have no plan yet for maintenance....lol.
I'd say that most of us don't - yet.
There will be many different strategies for maintenance, just as there are many different ways of eating low carb. Some will be drastic changes, others will be small tweaks.
My point is that we should think about it, and do just as much research on how to eat for life as we have on how to loose weight. This is particularly true if, like me, one has a history of yo yo dieting and started morbidly obese. I am SO DONE with living like I lived before, and sluffing through life without a plan got me in the mess I'm in.
So, my contention that maintenance is every bit AS important as weight loss phase, in fact, probably more so.
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@nicintime as a fellow yoyo-er, I agree with you! That's one reason I want to start thinking of it now, taking the long view. I most likely will add in more veggies and maybe fruits but not a lot of grains. I might, though, make exceptions more often for dinner at someone's house, special occasions, etc., IF that seems sustainable and doesn't tend to set me on carb binges or anything.0
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I am getting close to goal weight. Have actually reached it, freaked out and gained 10 back, lost that, decided to lose 10 more, lost 5 of that and now have gained that back. In short, maintenance is not something that I as a yoyo girl have even the most remote clue about in spite of obsessive reading and planning. Totally freaked out about it and bouncing off walls at this point. So. I guess I'm interested in any successes that others have had. I think staying in ketosis makes the most sense especially since it really does slow down loss when you get near goal weight.0
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I'm down about 75 pounds since summer of 2014, which means I lost about 35% of my peak body mass. For the past 5-6 months I've had very little change in what I eat or what I weigh. I didn't make any attempt to switch or maintain just kept doing what I was doing. I weigh now what I did when I was 18 and I'm OK with that and OK with what I eat on a daily basis. Since I'll be 69 in about 6 weeks I figure I don't have to worry about maintaining forever just another 20-21 years.0
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I'm approaching that. I was here 2 years ago, when I thought, Oh, I can add carbs back to the diet. Bad idea! So now I keep macros intact, but add some more calories.0
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It feels crazy for me to be even thinking about it being a possibility. But now, I know it will happen. I'm so excited to know this! I may add in some things like fruit, or beans, but it won't be a regular thing. 14 pounds to go!0
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I'm approaching that. I was here 2 years ago, when I thought, Oh, I can add carbs back to the diet. Bad idea! So now I keep macros intact, but add some more calories.
I did the same about 5 years ago. I was following the clean eating diet which, in hind sight, was low carb. I still remember adding back that first muffin. Ugh. It was the beginning of the end! I slowly gained it all back plus a few.
No more muffins for me.
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Staying the same weight is a completely strange concept. I've spent the last 20 years counting calories or eating with abandon, it's going to be tough to find that happy medium. I hope I can manage it without being obsessive for the rest of my life. But even then when I say "for the rest of my life" it seems overwhelming. I suspect what will end up happening is that I will gain some weight, and then go back to restricted calories to lose it again. I only hope I can keep the variation to a minimum ... say a 5kg weight swing instead of a 20kg one.0
