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

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  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    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.
  • tonyfastz06
    tonyfastz06 Posts: 35 Member
    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!!!
  • tonyfastz06
    tonyfastz06 Posts: 35 Member
    AnnPT77 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...

    ee6xwjk80zda.jpg

    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!!!
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    tonyfastz06 wrote: »
    AnnPT77 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...

    ee6xwjk80zda.jpg

    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.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    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.
  • mk2fit
    mk2fit Posts: 730 Member
    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.
  • xbowhunter
    xbowhunter Posts: 1,241 Member
    3 more holiday pounds to shed! :)
  • pierinifitness
    pierinifitness Posts: 2,226 Member
    Jimb376mfp wrote: »
    I’ve been on WW Plan and they have rules
    1. Set a GW (BMI chart or Dr note)
    2. Meet GW
    3. Maintain GW for six weeks (no more than 2# over GW)
    4. Earn Lifetime for free membership as long as below GW or not over 2#.

    I made GW 3/29/18, I have been on Maintenance sincere May.
    SW 376 (2013)
    GW 184 (2018)
    CW 180

    Thanks for sharing this. I think what I'll require of me is that I hit my single point goal weight and be at or below it for 90% of the days in a 30-day look back period. What I've learned here is to have my ideal weight expressed in a range and that I'll do. My plan is for a 5-lb. range. And, as many here have shared, they revised downward more their ideal weight. I'm feeling with 5 lbs. to go that this is something I too may do.

    Thanks for sharing.

  • vixtris
    vixtris Posts: 688 Member
    edited January 2019
    When I hit the minimum of my want-to-be weight range I declared I was in maintenance. However when I reached it I kept losing weight and dipped under it. But eventually got back within the range, and then some, and now getting back there again lol.
  • pierinifitness
    pierinifitness Posts: 2,226 Member
    vixtris wrote: »
    When I hit the minimum of my want-to-be weight range I declared I was in maintenance. However when I reached it I kept losing weight and dipped under it. But eventually got back within the range, and then some, and now getting back there again lol.

    Thanks for sharing. Coincidentally, yesterday I was just thinking about doing it that way.

    Regardless, in my mind, maintenance-land must be earned so I’ll continue at my journey.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    vixtris wrote: »
    When I hit the minimum of my want-to-be weight range I declared I was in maintenance. However when I reached it I kept losing weight and dipped under it. But eventually got back within the range, and then some, and now getting back there again lol.

    Once I got to goal, I set a 10 lb range with the top actually below my goal, but still considered myself in maintenance losing down to it. My goal was to get my BMI under 25 and keep it there. Any fiddling around I do under 25 I consider maintenance. I have gone as low as 23, but most of the time keep it around 24.

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