Maintaining is getting boring!!

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  • TracyV125
    TracyV125 Posts: 100 Member
    I totally get it. I'm OCD and very numbers driven. Now that I'm just trying to maintain I decided in order to keep myself from getting bored with it I just set new fitness goals. I'm currently training for a 5 mile race I've been dreaming of doing since I first began running in July 2014. I'm working on speed and distance. So my advice would be find something you love doing fitness wise and work on getting better at it.
  • Linzer140fit
    Linzer140fit Posts: 31 Member
    What about getting your body fat % measured in a tank? And then working to change that number a little bit...if it needs changed. If you're in a good place, that may take you a while and it's not something you can or should check daily so it would be something to work toward and check on in say 4-6 months?
  • AmandaHugginkiss
    AmandaHugginkiss Posts: 486 Member
    Maybe go on a lean bulk for a few months and then diet down again.
  • RaspberryTickleChicken
    RaspberryTickleChicken Posts: 629 Member
    Yup - I get it.

    When I first started maintaining I felt a little lost because I had no specific defined goal any more.

    The key to long term maintaining I think is to have some sort of secondary goals while the healthy habits are still settling in to your daily life.

    For me, my first maintaining goal was to beat the statistics that about 65% regain within the first year.

    Now my goal is to beat the next statistic of maintaining for 5 yrs to increase my odds of maintaining for life.

    You can also start with maybe increasing body definition / sculpting. Or being able to do something you couldn't before ... like doing pull ups etc.

    Sometimes I do think maintaining is more challenging because there is no finish line and we have to be creative with our goals.

    Best of luck to you!
  • noexcusesjustresults2014
    noexcusesjustresults2014 Posts: 212 Member
    Thousands of people on here are in the same situation. Just choose a fitness goal and focus on that instead.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    edited January 2015
    Just a thought - lots of people suggested fitness goals. How about cooking goals? Things like learning how to cook delicious meals that are great for maintaining weight (i.e. reasonable calorie/macro contents)? Not sure if it's an interest to you. If you have kids, maybe a goal of teaching them how to look after their food and exercise habits. Something a little different to consider :)
  • TheBitSlinger
    TheBitSlinger Posts: 621 Member
    Yes, completely. I frequently feel let down now that my journey is over. I no longer feel that special feeling I got when I was losing. Nowadays, I took pleasure in meeting now fitness goals, like climbing over 300 floors for the first time on StairMaster or lifting over 250,000 pounds in one week's lifting workouts.
  • marvinnine
    marvinnine Posts: 2 Member
    JimmyRoss7 wrote: »
    Dont let my title anger you but I dieted down, weighed and logged EVERYTHING!! I had a goal weight of 30lbs and hit it. Now I've been maintaining for 8 months and I'm bored with it. When I was cutting I had a goal to look forward to and every Saturday morning I couldn't wait to weigh in. Now there no goal to work towards, does this make sense to anyone??

  • musicandarts
    musicandarts Posts: 187 Member
    Why not pick a new sport? Squash, tennis, volley ball..... These activities also have a great social component.
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