Met my goal today!

alexmose

Took over 9 months to lose 10 pounds! Time to recomp! 117 pounds and 5’3’’. Tips appreciated (aside from recomp thread).

GOT_Obsessed

Good for you! Happy, happy joy, joy!
Just keep doing what you were doing with a higher calorie count.

Jerdtrmndone

WTG!!

Styggian

good job, congratulations

MikePfirrman

That's fantastic. I'd continue to eat at a deficit for a while and see how that goes and then gradually add in more calories. Have a "red line" that you won't go above. Keep logging food.

I've been at this a while -- I'm celebrating 6 years on maintenance this month. I logged religiously nearly 3 years after I lost the weight. It eventually became so engrained I stopped logging food, but I never stopped weighing frequently and taking other benchmark measures of weight. I also still don't buy my "triggers" at the grocery store.

If you cross your personal "red line", get back to what you were doing to lose the weight.

Long term, they have figured out that the average person who goes from obese to normal weight and maintains for over a year keeps a red line and weighs themselves at least once a week or more. They also work out, on average, an hour a day. I don't know if you have to work out that much but while weight loss happens in the kitchen, I would say that for maintenance, it happens both in the kitchen and in the gym.

I found I love to do an indoor rower (and an Air Bike). Between those (and lifting, though I'm more into bodyweight type of stuff/resistance bands), I workout an hour a day on average. So I fit right into the Nat'l Weight Loss Registry survey.