How did you change your workouts once you hit your goal??

My workouts reflect the goals I have for my body. Ultimately, some workouts are just because I love doing those things (like my tennis). But as my focus changes (BF% vs weight loss), I am migrating from cardio and weight training to more weight training, with adequate recuperation times. That way, I give my body a chance to recover and rebuild.

stop working out
start drinking lots of booze.

Sounds like the kind of plan I like.....:drinker:

I think I actually worked out more becasue I learned the benefits of excercise outside of losing weight - it is such a stress releiver and, once you hit your goal weight and hit maintenance mode, the more you excercise the more food you can eat. It also keeps your metabolism boosted.

Once I started maintenance, I started working with a trainer who has been tailoring my workouts to meet my fitness goals. This means incorporating more lifting than I had been doing and mixing up my cardio routines (I used to just run, now I've added rowing, elliptical, stationary bike, and others depending on what he has me working or just how I feel on a particular day.

This was more of a timing coincidence rather than a set plan to do at maintenance, but I find that it really fits well.

The first time I reached my goal of 25lbs lost, I gradually stopped working out and fell back into old eating habits and gained 13lbs back! This time I know I need to keep up with exercise for maintenance.

why would you change your fitness regimen at maintenance? use your diet for weight control (lose/maintain/gain); exercise for fitness.

One of the big reasons people put the weight back on when they hit goal is that they stop working out and/or substantially decrease their workouts (resulting in a considerably lower TDEE than they had when they were dieting)...they associate working out with weight loss and that is all. This is just about the biggest mistake you could ever make. Your fitness regimen is far more important during maintenance than it was for losing weight. This is why it is so imperative to set actual fitness goals that go beyond weight loss and burning calories.

I changed my goals and kept going

Ha ha! It's funny because it's true.....

Love this - absolutely keep up the exercise just adjust your calorie intake. I am very close to having to do this myself - enjoy the extra healthy food!! :-)

I just started trying different modes of exercise. Yoga, dance, horseback riding, run a 5K. There's no need to do less but open up to trying other things

I've been maintaining for over a year, and I kept doing the same exercises - running and Jillian Michaels dvds. Now I'm seeing that out of sheer boredom I should change things up. I agree with many others that I need to increase strength training and dump a little of the cardio.

I may be an odd case because reaching my goal weight coincided with getting a surgical procedure. I had been taking it easier up to about a month before that time, mainly walking and some light strength work on machines because I thought I had an injury. Once I found out I was wrong about that, I spent a month pushing myself hard on the strength work and then went in for the op. After the op I spent about a month ramping my activity back up to that level, then decided I wanted to do more and could.

My workouts now are sort of like my earlier workouts, but more intense and less gym-centric. Where I would normally have gone to a nearby building and climbed 40 flights of stairs, yesterday I sprinted up 68, two flights at a time. Where I was working out on machines, I'm now lifting free weights at home. Where I was walking for an hour or two on a treadmill, I'm now training to run a 5k without stopping or walking. A month or two from now, I have a 2-month groupon to try out a Crossfit studio. Once that expires, I hope to move on to combat training at a local MMA studio -- something I've wanted to do for years.

So yeah, new goals, like I want to squat triple digits and bench half my body weight. I'm logging calories in/out and calling it "recomping," but really I'm just having a blast finding out that in my mid-40s I can do just about anything I darned well feel like doing. I wasn't very healthy or active as a kid, and a year ago I'd get winded just climbing the stairs at work, so this is all new and fun to me.

Current "routine" is probably what the OP was looking for, so...
Compound lifts (squat/bench/deadlift/press) 2-3x a week
Assistance strength (e.g., fly, row, chin/dip, abs, arms) 1x a week, usually coinciding with the third compound day
Run 2x a week (once for 5k endurance, once just for fun)
General lighter cardio on other days (walking, rowing machine, stair climbing, or whatever)

And sometimes I hop on the treadmill just to outrun my spoon... I loooove my frozen yogurt.

I haven't changed my workouts at all--I enjoy the ME time from them. I do my 4 miles every day and my weights and take in a Zumba class once or twice a week. These are ME times in my busy life. You will find that as well, and it also keeps me in check.

When I was loosing weight always made sure I did at least 3x workouts a week, some weeks more, so I've kept to this since switching to maintenance, my workouts were mainly Julian Michaels and kickboxing classes now I'm focusing more on strength alone as I want to work on my body comp, going to resistence classes now and at the moment doing free weights at home. Reading the starting strength book so hoping to get started on an actual programme in the future.
I just love the feeling after a workout, that buzz is amazing and i'm really getting that from my weight classes more than I was from JM so going to stick with it!

i seriously LOVE all of my workouts... so i've just been eating more to find the amount where i don't lose anymore.