When did you “officially proclaim” you were in maintenance?
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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!3
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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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I considered myself in maintenance when I was consistently within 2 pounds of my present goal/BMI 23.
I’ve been able to stay there for 3 1/2 months now, including the holidays, and soon I would like to get back to a deficit and lose another 5 pounds or so.
It kind of worked out perfectly, time wise, to take a break from eating at a deficit after 9 months at the holidays. I got a real feeling for maintenance and a much needed break!7 -
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 18012 -
Today!
Holding a deficit just isn't happening right now :laugh:9 -
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.
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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.0
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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.0 -
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 24.1 -
I'm figuring I'm there. I'm at the top of my goal weight range and planning to lose another three pounds over the next three months while my work schedule is hell. It took me a year to lose about 30 pounds, but I did it on MY terms which included daily chocolate and workouts I enjoy. Current weight is 134.6....goal range is 130-135 and I never want to see the upper 130s adhesion, so would like the scale a little lower in my safe zone.5
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