When did you “officially proclaim” you were in maintenance?
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Again, thanks for all the “pearls of wisdom” sharing comments. I’ll be in good maintenance company here.3
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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.0
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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.1 -
Never have... I will always be in some kind of flux.2
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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.2 -
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.6 -
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.7 -
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.7 -
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.5 -
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!!!0
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tonyfastz06 wrote: »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!!!
46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.1 -
CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »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!!!
46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.
LMAO All in perspective i suppose! Regardless, visible abs at 60? You're my hero!!!0 -
tonyfastz06 wrote: »CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »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!!!
46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.
LMAO All in perspective i suppose! Regardless, visible abs at 60? You're my hero!!!
But I really wish I had started sooner. Late 50s I didn't look so good...
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CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »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!!!
46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.
LMAO All in perspective i suppose! Regardless, visible abs at 60? You're my hero!!!
But I really wish I had started sooner. Late 50s I didn't look so good...
You've done some great work, Carvedtones . . .
. . . even so, I have to say I think that 46-year-old "kids" sometimes have mistaken ideas about aging. There are quite a few strong, fit oldies where I hang out, too - 70+, 80+ - and I keep aspiring (at 63, after starting to be active at . . . hmm, around 46).
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CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »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!!!
46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.
LMAO All in perspective i suppose! Regardless, visible abs at 60? You're my hero!!!
But I really wish I had started sooner. Late 50s I didn't look so good...
You've done some great work, Carvedtones . . .
. . . even so, I have to say I think that 46-year-old "kids" sometimes have mistaken ideas about aging. There are quite a few strong, fit oldies where I hang out, too - 70+, 80+ - and I keep aspiring (at 63, after starting to be active at . . . hmm, around 46).
@CarvedTones truly great accomplishment to not only get there, but to maintain it! Seriously good for you!!
I've considered prepping and attending a natural bodybuilding show however with a full time job, a stay at home wife, 3 kids and a 97lb dog, i just can't make that commitment. I am however pretty proud myself of what i've achieved so far with the end game just a few short 10-12 weeks away!!!2 -
tonyfastz06 wrote: »CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »CarvedTones wrote: »tonyfastz06 wrote: »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!!!
46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.
LMAO All in perspective i suppose! Regardless, visible abs at 60? You're my hero!!!
But I really wish I had started sooner. Late 50s I didn't look so good...
You've done some great work, Carvedtones . . .
. . . even so, I have to say I think that 46-year-old "kids" sometimes have mistaken ideas about aging. There are quite a few strong, fit oldies where I hang out, too - 70+, 80+ - and I keep aspiring (at 63, after starting to be active at . . . hmm, around 46).
@CarvedTones truly great accomplishment to not only get there, but to maintain it! Seriously good for you!!
I've considered prepping and attending a natural bodybuilding show however with a full time job, a stay at home wife, 3 kids and a 97lb dog, i just can't make that commitment. I am however pretty proud myself of what i've achieved so far with the end game just a few short 10-12 weeks away!!!
Bodybuilding show? You are at a whole different level. Fit and trim is all I am after. I built up my chest and shoulders a bit since that picture, but not to any kind of competitive level. That's not what I am after.
On topic, I think that weight maintenance, when you eat what you burn, is just one aspect for most of us.0 -
I started maintenance the day I passed my goal number on the scale. I don't know what day I actually reached that weight, though. It was at the end of a cross-country move, so I'd spent a week sitting in the car doing no exercise, eating a lot of fruit and protein bars, and hadn't had access to a scale. The first day I weighed myself at our new place, I was at my goal weight. I lost a little more before settling into maintenance, so I'm now usually about two pounds below my original goal.0
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I called maintenance after losing 50ish pounds and my husband complained I was hangry at 1200 calories. Having had trouble figuring out maintenance, I lost another 20 over the next few months. As it turns out, that is where I have stayed for the last 3+ years. Whatever works for you is where you should be.4
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3 more holiday pounds to shed!
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My initial goal was to lose 15lbs, I thought that would be more achievable even if it meant I was just about in the normal BMI range at that point. Got there and felt I needed to drop some more so did that slowly over several months - took me a year in total to lose 21lbs - took the slow and steady approach which worked nicely for me, I never would have felt I was 'dieting'. Been in maintenance since 2013 but went on to lose another 9-10lbs since then and am really happy with my current range 124-129lbs. BMI 22.7
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