When you finally get to a wait where you're going to maintain how does that feel emotionally

PurplePenguinnn
PurplePenguinnn Posts: 38 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight

I'm how it feels to finally be at a number where your maintaining instead of trying to lose weight

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,574 Member

    Probably feels different for everyone, depending on their personality, personal history with body weight, reasons for weight loss, and more?

    For me - not a very emotion-centric person in general - I don't remember any really strong emotion on reaching goal weight or when maintaining, apart from a sense of accomplishment or empowerment in having been able to achieve it.

    My reasons for losing were health related, and health markers did improve and some symptoms (such as arthritis pain) decreased. It was a quality of life improvement overall, but I don't remember much emotional component, honestly. (I reached a healthy weight in 2016, have been at a healthy weight since.)

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,686 Member

    Like anything, the emotions are complicated.

    For me, the reasons why I became over-weight are also complicated.

    My suggestion is to get there and see! It's pretty great. :)

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,787 Member

    I lost the weight when I lost the stress. The stress relief was a gradual letting go of pain that I'm still going through. It just gets better and better. The weight loss was secondary, and the joy of it was secondary. Being able to clothes shop anywhere has been a big joy! Eating is not much different.

    Good luck in your journey!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,574 Member
    edited May 8

    I mowed down goals, but never reached the final “ultimate” goal I set. Why? Because that weight on me in my late 50’s sat completely different on me than it did in my 20’s.


    No one said anything until someone with balls finally said “you look sick, you’re frail, you’ve got a problem”. I’m grateful someone called me out on it.

    So I actually ended up needing to put weight back on.


    I can tell you, that didn’t feel good, after working so hard. But it was necessary and I’m glad I did it

    I’ve settled in about 20-25 pounds higher than that weight, gained back (plus a lot more) the muscle I lost, and don’t look like Grandaddy longlegs anymore.


    I’ve been in maintenance now for five and a half years.


    TBH it’s no different than losing It’s constant monitoring, vigilance, I still weigh and log, pre-log days out to set

    expectations (and keep unnecessary food out of the house). Tonight I’ve settled for one piece of pizza and a small side salad. I know if I go buck wild, I will easily regain, and I’m not going there.

    Someone here told me “Treat maintenance like you still have ten pounds to lose”, and that’s the gosh honest truth right there


    I’ve gotten a ton of great advice here but that one, that’s #1, and ignoring it is the reason 90+%of people regain what they lost.

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