Brenda's Maintenance Journal Year 1

Brendalea69

minigrrll wrote: »

Can't believe it's been almost a YEAR! Seems like yesterday... So impressed with how easily you are maintaining - way to go!!

Thanks Sarah

brittdee88

I just cannot get over how well you're doing! I have adjusted my goal weight to 130, and I hope to see some of the success you're experiencing when I get there!

Brendalea69

brittdee88 wrote: »

I just cannot get over how well you're doing! I have adjusted my goal weight to 130, and I hope to see some of the success you're experiencing when I get there!

Thanks Britt I'm cheering you on

Brendalea69

Bumping this thread for the OMAD newbies...
This thread starts my OMAD Maintenance Journey

aleroache20

Thanks for bumping! It is so inspiring to see someone not only reach their goal but maintain for almost a year. That's amazing! And it's even more exciting to see that you're still enjoying life and tasty food. I'm in awe.

ArizonaToast

Nice job maintaining weight loss!

jeanona

Great to see you’re doing so well on a losing mode too.

I’m having too many splurge days myself so far and need to rein it in!

sammygold2015

I think the weekends need to be taken away from me, that is where my calorie intake gets out of hand. Good luck to the maintenance queen.

Brendalea69

Thanks everyone, you're all so kind

minigrrll

sammygold2015 wrote: »

I think the weekends need to be taken away from me, that is where my calorie intake gets out of hand. Good luck to the maintenance queen.

Same here. I can wipe out an entire week's weight loss in one day on the weekend.

Brendalea69

Brendalea69 wrote: »

I lost a pound this week by reigning in my splurge days, I am only doing 2 days and instead of going hog wild all day I am only eating for 4 to 6 hours. I will continue to do this until I reach 122 because I want a bigger maintenance window.

So I flubbed up this past week and didn't reign in my splurge days at alI but I'm still under 130 today so I'm happy about that

Fri......125.......Splurge Day
Sat.....???........Splurge Day
Sun....???........Splurge Day
Mon...133.......OMAD
Tue....130.2....Splurge Day
Wed...130.8....OMAD
Thu....131.8....OMAD (Very Low Carb/Calorie)
Fri......127.8....Water Fast
Sat.....125.6

aleroache20

4 Splurge days and only up by .6? I'll call that a win any day.

I'm thinking about adding one fasting day in per week. I've done full day fasts before when I was on IF but but not since I started OMAD. Do you have any tips or tricks you can share that helped you?

brittdee88

I agree with Alex! That is definitely a win!

tlblanksfit

You are the queen of recovery...Great job to be up only up 0.6

dkayingram

Amazing!

sunnycobayo

Brenda, you are doing so fabulous! I have a feeling we'll both be at 122 before we know it.

Brendalea69

aleroache20 wrote: »

4 Splurge days and only up by .6? I'll call that a win any day.

I'm thinking about adding one fasting day in per week. I've done full day fasts before when I was on IF but but not since I started OMAD. Do you have any tips or tricks you can share that helped you?

I did water fasting near the end of my weight loss and it was always on the day before my splurge/weigh in day...I drank lots of water and chewed sugarless gum.

Brendalea69

sunnycobayo wrote: »

Brenda, you are doing so fabulous! I have a feeling we'll both be at 122 before we know it.

I hope so!!!

Brendalea69

Thanks everyone

Brendalea69

tlblanksfit wrote: »

You are the queen of recovery...Great job to be up only up 0.6

If I hadn't had that water fast day it would have been more...4 splurge days is making it hard to get to 122 but it will happen

brittdee88

What if you did a one-week challenge of super strict OMAD like @aleroache20? I feel you could easily get down to 122 with that and then maintain from there.

Brendalea69

brittdee88 wrote: »

What if you did a one-week challenge of super strict OMAD like @aleroache20? I feel you could easily get down to 122 with that and then maintain from there.

I could, I just have to put my mind to it

brittdee88

Man, I cannot WAIT until I am where you are. I would love to have that attitude of "I could" instead of "I NEED!"

sammygold2015

You have this!

Brendalea69

Thanks girls Britt you WILL get there

Brendalea69

Depending on my weigh in tomorrow I will either have a water fasting day or a really low carb/low calorie day...I know I'm already below my maintenance goal weight but I want to get to 122 or lower (I want a big window to work with) so I can start my new eating plan which will be OMAD/Not Low Carb for 5 days and 2 Splurge days.

sunnycobayo

I feel like we're in the same camp, Brenda. Hoping for a good weigh in for you tomorrow!

ElizabethAN2017

Thanks for sharing your journey with us Just wondering how you determined your maintenance weight range and if you started to eat your maintenance calories at some point before you reached your maintenance weight. I am thinking of using my "goal weight" maintenance calories as my allotment for the present time, so I can get used to them. Again thanks and well done

Brendalea69

sunnycobayo wrote: »

I feel like we're in the same camp, Brenda. Hoping for a good weigh in for you tomorrow!

Brendalea69

ElizabethAN2017 wrote: »

Thanks for sharing your journey with us Just wondering how you determined your maintenance weight range and if you started to eat your maintenance calories at some point before you reached your maintenance weight. I am thinking of using my "goal weight" maintenance calories as my allotment for the present time, so I can get used to them. Again thanks and well done

Thanks, I always want to be under 130 so I figure if I get down to 122 I will have 8 pounds to play with. I don't count calories at all, I did that only for a short time after I reached maintenance but found it was too hard.