When did you “officially proclaim” you were in maintenance?

pierinifitness

(1) First time you entered your established maintenance range weight.

(2) After a certain number of consecutive or non-consecutive weigh-ins at your maintenance range weight.

(3). Other - please share.

I’m 5.9 lbs. away today and look forward to joining the weekly update pist shares which I read all and find very instructive.

corysmithsmail

I was just wondering the same thing. I'm theoretically in maintenance mode but not in maintenance calories yet. I've been slowly upping my calories to switch from deficit to maintenance for about 3 weeks now. I've been about 2-3lbs around my target weight for about a month.

CarvedTones

The first time I saw a weight that put my BMI under 25. That was and is my goal - don't have a BMI of 25+ ever again. I reached that goal over 10 months ago and I am now 10 pounds less than that and have established a 10 pound range with the top 4 pounds below the weight that put me at 24.9 because I don't want to go over, even with spikes. I am maintaining the promise I made to myself not to get to 25 again by choosing to drop it to 23 for now.

twdlove89

I first hit my goal weight around the beginning of August, I lost afew more pounds then went on holiday and put some weight on then it slowly dropped back into my range then i put some on over Christmas and I’m now back to 9stone.
Once I go over 9stone 5lbs then I start to reduce my calories. I don’t weigh myself often, every 2weeks or so and I’m still trying to find a balance

reversemigration

I'll take a stab at this, since I've only recently proclaimed. While I reached my lowest weight back in September/October, some reflection and discussion with my physician prompted me to float up a little. I decided since I was purposefully gaining, I couldn't legitimately call it maintenance. Since I've been doing so quite slowly and can even out spikes and dips, I had no problem with an official proclamation, town cryer, and entry into the congressional record when I reached my goal weight.

Kathryn247

I switched to maintenance just before the "holiday eating events" started. I hit -49 pounds, 98% of my 50 pound goal, and decided that was close enough. That weight has me comfortably in the normal BMI range and size small clothes. This year I'm focusing on maintaining and strength training.
My weight went up a little bit over the holidays and from the new exercise, but I'm still within my range.
My official proclamation was on Facebook, and received many "likes," "loves," and "wows."

sardelsa

I am in maintenance for now. I will maintain for a time but then go back to other goals (so I never really stay here). I usually determine it when I see it in the mirror. When I am happy with my physique and I know more weight loss won't get me where I need to go, I will switch over to maintaining. Sometimes I have an idea of the weight range but it is more about how I look vs the scale for me.

sijomial

The day I saw my goal weight on the scales.
As that day was a Christmas Eve I was pretty sure I would bounce straight back over again but that wasn't any big deal to me - I fully expect to have to make weight adjustments now and in the future to stay in my desired range.

As it happened I made quite a few adjustments to my range as well as my weight over a few years. As my goals change and as my body changes then my chosen weight range also needed to be modified.

pierinifitness

Great sharing, thanks.

SummerSkier

pierinifitness wrote: »

(1) First time you entered your established maintenance range weight.

(2) After a certain number of consecutive or non-consecutive weigh-ins at your maintenance range weight.

(3). Other - please share.

I’m 5.9 lbs. away today and look forward to joining the weekly update pist shares which I read all and find very instructive.

You can do it whenever you decide. LOL. There are no hard and fast rules. Join the weekly updates sooner vs later if you want.

pierinifitness

SummerSkier wrote: »

pierinifitness wrote: »

(1) First time you entered your established maintenance range weight.

(2) After a certain number of consecutive or non-consecutive weigh-ins at your maintenance range weight.

(3). Other - please share.

I’m 5.9 lbs. away today and look forward to joining the weekly update pist shares which I read all and find very instructive.

You can do it whenever you decide. LOL. There are no hard and fast rules. Join the weekly updates sooner vs later if you want.

Thanks for the early invite but I’m going to wait and “earn” my entry. Until then, I’ll lurk and learn.

Brendalea69

The day that I met my goal weight of 130 pounds was the day I officially proclaimed that I was in maintenance. I've gotten down as low as 122 so I decided to make my maintenance range be anywhere in the 120's

JeromeBarry1

I recall that it was the day I started gaining weight. The next time I get there, I'm not going to stop logging.

CarvedTones

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

I recall that it was the day I started gaining weight. The next time I get there, I'm not going to stop logging.

I am not sure I can ever stop logging.

nowine4me

I declared maintenance the day I hit the bottom of my range. I’ve bounced around quite a bit after, -10, then +10. As of now, I’m 4# over range, but keeping up the fight.

fiddletime

I declared maintenance at 5# over goal weight when I stayed there for 4 months. I was a good BMI but then I made an effort to lose the 5. Over the holidays I’m back up 5. But maintenance is a lot of ups and downs for many.

It’s a range so there doesn’t need to be a set number. For me, I like to be at 125, but am now at 130. The key for me is to learn how to lose the “last 5#” over and over as I like to just pig out sometimes. It’s getting easier and easier as I understand my body and my calories in and out.

mmapags

Never. I just don't think in those terms. It's an always ongoing thing. I put way more emphasis on how i feel and how i look and most importantly, how I perform functionally and in my workouts and not so much on the number on the scale. 67 and still progressing. Slower than when i was younger but... That is what matters to me and not arbitrary things like "maintenance" or not.

snickerscharlie

This ^^^.

Maintenance - for me at least - is a personal weight range that I try to stay somewhere in the middle of, so not an official proclamation or "I've arrived!" kind of thing. I will always be a work in progress.

xbowhunter

Started in June of 2018. My goal weight was 145lbs perfect for my 5'7" height and bone structure. I'm currently 5lbs above maintenance & working to shed 5lbs of holiday weight... lol

next up is a cruise in February that will surely increase my weight...

The key is to monitor & take action to achieve the set weight limit. If you don't monitor it will get away from you.

sgriska

I “publicly declared” a few weeks ago but actually am still running a deficit because I want a solid 10 lb buffer zone and I don’t need anymore grief from family and friends telling me I need to stop losing. It’s not their decision and none of their business.

I am 5’4” tall, weigh 140, down from a high weight of 285, and plan to lose another 10 lbs because I never want to be heavier than I am right now ever again.

jan110144

I am dealing with that question now. I started with a goal of 155. Reached that pretty smoothly. Then I adjusted the gial down to 145. When I got to 145, I reset goal to 135, looking ultimately for a maintenance range of 135-140.

I am now at 138.5. Am starting to inch my way to msintenance. I am starting by keeping same calorie allotment, but eating back all exercise calories. I will gradually add 100 calories per day over several months and see how it goes.

I think my p k an is solid, but i'm still a bit nervous about gaining weight back.

pierinifitness

Again, thanks for all the “pearls of wisdom” sharing comments. I’ll be in good maintenance company here.

zeejane03

Maintenance has been very fluid for me, and while I consider myself in maintenance for almost 6 years now, my weight has fluctuated 15ish pounds throughout that based on the seasons, different goals etc. I started labeling myself in maintenance about a month after I hit my initial weight goal.

CarvedTones

mmapags wrote: »

Never. I just don't think in those terms. It's an always ongoing thing. I put way more emphasis on how i feel and how i look and most importantly, how I perform functionally and in my workouts and not so much on the number on the scale. 67 and still progressing. Slower than when i was younger but... That is what matters to me and not arbitrary things like "maintenance" or not.

It sounds like the opposite, but another way to look at that is in next sentence - "always". At the time you decide to maintain your health at an optimum level, you take steps to get to it if you aren't there or stay there if you are. Philosophically, I like that answer better than mine. Psychologically, I needed a goal to work toward that was more concrete and measurable.

psychod787

Never have... I will always be in some kind of flux.

CSARdiver

Once I achieved my goal weight.

This is a matter of establishing behaviors and this process never stops. I knew I would experience a gain after the initial loss, which I did, and took the opportunity to observe my behaviors and establish new habits and behaviors in transitioning from deficit to maintenance. Much of this was through athletic competition, in which an ideal weight is necessary to be competitive and becomes a secondary issue.

sijomial

mmapags wrote: »

Never. I just don't think in those terms. It's an always ongoing thing. I put way more emphasis on how i feel and how i look and most importantly, how I perform functionally and in my workouts and not so much on the number on the scale. 67 and still progressing. Slower than when i was younger but... That is what matters to me and not arbitrary things like "maintenance" or not.

That's an interesting perspective. I'm very goal oriented and get a lot of satisfaction from ticking off my goals, I've always got a few on the go - some trivial, some major, some probably over-ambitious.

I approached my weight loss like a project and made it a SMART objective.
Got there and ticked it off. Smiled to myself.

Then promptly replaced it with a new and open-ended goal to maintain, every day I do feels like a (very) small victory.

Like you though weight is just a part of the overall picture, my goals are mostly cycling and weight training related.

kami3006

I really only describe myself as in maintenance here on the forums for the purpose of talking about difference between being in deficit and not.

Outside of the forums, I'm either eating at maintenance, deficit, or surplus, depending on my goals at the time. It varies so I don't really consider myself to be "in" anything. Just working on body comp by doing what I need to do for now.

If I do decide to proclaim maintenance, I'll make sure to send out embossed invitations to my personal parade and maintenance ball.

AnnPT77

To me, maintenance is more of a "seek" than a "found", permanently.

While losing, I had adjusted my goal weight downward a couple or so times, once I got close enough to have more sensible insight. The last stage, I had some benchmarks (specifics about how I felt/looked) that I was looking for, to decide what goal weight was more precisely (despite expecting maintenance to be a range, BTW). Literally, I woke up one morning and decide I was "there".

I'd been gradually tapering calories upward for a while to slow my loss and coast into maintenance, but at that point I started doing that with more granularity: Add 100 calories, wait to see the clear effect on trend (not just fluctuations). That got me a bit below my intended range.

Ever since that "I'm there" moment, I've considered myself to be in maintenance, even though I haven't been 100% successful at it. (I'm at a healthy weight, mid-BMI-range, but lower would be ideal.) I'm not sure what would make me be "not in maintenance" anymore; maybe if I decided I needed to do a major loss push (but maybe not).

I run a small daily deficit most days even now, to calorie bank for periodic indulgences. That muddies the waters even further.

GaleHawkins

pierinifitness wrote: »

(1) First time you entered your established maintenance range weight.

(2) After a certain number of consecutive or non-consecutive weigh-ins at your maintenance range weight.

(3). Other - please share.

I’m 5.9 lbs. away today and look forward to joining the weekly update pist shares which I read all and find very instructive.

@pierinifitness when I changed my Way Of Eating in Oct 2014 I said no more dieting to lose weight at the age of 63 because of 40 years of failure. I made my goal to eat to have better health and health markers. The funny part I lost a much needed 50 pounds the first year and have maintained that loss for the past three years. 4 years later my health and health markers continue to improve and I still eat the same 2000-3000 daily calories like back in Oct 2014. I eat when I get hungry and stop when I get full. On my old WOE I never got full as in not hungry. Over and over I would pig out and still stop by the Dairy Queen and get a banana split. Not sure how this all works but I am glad my new WOE fixed me in so many ways already.

Congratulations on your past and continued success.

tonyfastz06

i graduated from "weight loss" to achieving the best possible natural physique possible for a 46 year old... LOL I doubt that will ever get me to "maintenance" but it sure would be a fun journey. Plus, i love it when the young kids look at me at the gym and are like... WTF LOL Enjoy the process!!!