Maintainers Weekly Check-In - January 2019

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  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    mtaratoot wrote: »
    stephenearllucas wrote: »

    Week of...
    January 6: 201.0
    January 13: 200.0
    January 20: 200.1
    January 27:

    It brings me joy to see that you have leveled off again. We're right here with you as you get back where you were not that long ago. Let's do it.

    Thanks so much!!!
  • w8goal4life
    w8goal4life Posts: 1,375 Member
    HarperAnn6 wrote: »
    Name: Harper

    Success / Struggles: Suddenly, I have a renewed desire to track my food again. Not sure where it’s coming from, but I’m just going to enjoy the motivation while it lasts. As for struggles, I am having difficulty with my body image. Although the scale says what I want it to, I don’t feel that I look particularly slim right now. I think I may have lost muscle and gained fat this winter — not sure.

    Please join us in the Ultimate Accountability Challenge (UAC). It's a monthly challenge under Community->Groups. The February sign-up is here. Would love to have you join us. Many of us are maintainers and participate, not to lose weight but rather for accountability and to build strength/endurance. Others are still on the weight loss journey. It's a very supportive group for you or anyone else on this thread who may be interested.

    Check it out: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/130876-ultimate-accountability-challenge-february-2019
  • w8goal4life
    w8goal4life Posts: 1,375 Member
    Jimb376mfp wrote: »
    Name: Jim
    Success: Loss -2.4 after buying Girl Scout cookies from our DGD! I have not bought these for years, I learned to portion control my urges! :tongue:
    Sure hope some of those cookies were the chocolate covered thin mints or the peanut butter patties...I'm drooling!
  • PiscesMan123
    PiscesMan123 Posts: 23 Member
    Thank you for providing this opportunity to "weigh-in" on the maintenance plan. I am still a ways away from reaching my goal BUT...I want to align myself with the winners (you all : ) My height is 5'9 and my weight has been as high as 297, but currently am at 197. My wife says I look good, but I am thinking 185. I like what Stephen has accomplished with losing 61 pounds and getting to the 159ish mark. How does that feel for you. Do you look healthy AND how many calories do you consume as a rule in a day?
  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    PiscesMan123 wrote: »
    Thank you for providing this opportunity to "weigh-in" on the maintenance plan. I am still a ways away from reaching my goal BUT...I want to align myself with the winners (you all : ) My height is 5'9 and my weight has been as high as 297, but currently am at 197. My wife says I look good, but I am thinking 185. I like what Stephen has accomplished with losing 61 pounds and getting to the 159ish mark. How does that feel for you. Do you look healthy AND how many calories do you consume as a rule in a day?

    Hi Ben, I originally went from 262 to 182 (took one year), maintained for one year, then crept up about 20 pounds in year 3. My wife thinks I look fine, but my clothes are a bit snug for me and I feel a little more sluggish than I like, so I'm going to move back down to 185, I think, by summer. That way I'll not be carrying as much around for summer gardening, etc. I really think that anything within the healthy BMI (126 to 169 for 5'9") is fine--it's what feels good to you, and you should take into account if you're muscular, etc. So: 159 probably works just fine.

    As for calories: the year I held at maintenance (average 182 pounds), my average calories per day was 2,825. I'm also 6'2", but I don't know if that means anything calorie-wise. I did much more strength training that year--now, I'm just walking (~5 miles day), with some minor calisthenics and stretching in the mix.

    I *think* I look healthy--I probably need to do some more strength to build some tone and function, but am going to wait until I lose the next few pounds to do so....

    Hope that helps somewhat!
  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    sofchak wrote: »
    Name: Sofchak
    Age: 36
    Height: 5’3”
    Total weight lost: ~25 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 9 months
    How long in maintenance: 2+ years
    Maintenance weight range: 122-127
    Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 124

    Week of...
    January 5: 129.5
    January 12: 129.0
    January 19: 128.0
    January 26: 127.0

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I’m officially back in Maintenance range! Yippee!

    For those who have been on this maintenance forum for a long while, you may recall that I almost died this time last year - choking on a Brussels sprout of all things. I decided at that point to go a bit easier on myself and to really ramp up the concept of “living my best life”. At that point, I decided to stop calorie counting for a while because I was becoming quite obsessive.

    Fast forward a year, I’m about 10lbs heavier now (most of the weight was gained over the holidays) but I feel and look good; still fit in all my clothes. I’m still not calorie counting, though I weigh myself on the bathroom scale almost daily. I am enjoying the freedom of this approach to weight maintenance and am truly content in my body.

    On a lighter topic, I am super proud of myself this week - I am not a morning exerciser, but I got up 4 out of 5 workdays to either hit up my indoor bike or go to the gym for a 3 mile run on the treadmill. I also have law class now after work on both Tuesday and Wednesday nights. So proud that I managed to pack breakfast, lunch, and dinner both days and didn’t deviate at all from the plan despite being tired, cranky, and overall mentally exhausted by the end of Wednesday. Failing to plan is planning to fail, as they say!

    Cheers to a great week everyone!

    I needed to read this today especially "living my best life".

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