Maintenance mentality

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  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,193 Member
    Evamutt wrote: »
    I hope this becomes active again because it's hard to find maintainers groups and isn't the goal of weight loss to maintain? We could all use some support & share no matter what stage we're at. It could also help those who are still in the losing stage some ideas & glimpses of what it's like to maintain.

    I am of like mind. I have been maintaining since 2017 and the only way I have managed to be successful is that when I was losing I focused on a PLAN for maintaining. Over all the years I had lost and gained and lost again I got really good at losing the same weight. However I never had anyone tell me that the most important part was not the losing but what you do after that matters the most. In that effort I try when I see folks successfully losing at work to have them ask themselves the same question. Are they just going to be done and go back to drinking a 5 pack of beer a day or what is their plan to keep this weight they worked so hard to lose off? I think it probably throws them a little because they are more used to people saying 'how did you lose the weight?' but if it can help one person avoid a rebound it's worth it.
  • rjmcintosh1597
    rjmcintosh1597 Posts: 3 Member
    Yes, maintenance is my goal. I lost 40 lbs fasting in 120 days. I love my new body. I’m maintaining my fast schedule, upped my calories, occasionally eating outside my range, and seem to be maintaining my weight loss. This app says I’m under healthy eating, but I feel great and think it’s wrong for my chemistry. Some days I’m under on calories and others over, but not more than 200 calories either way. I’m simply not hungry. I’m a binger, having slipped a few times, I feel physically sick. Makes it easy not to binge.
  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,548 Member
    caseythirteen wrote: »
    Our bodies don't operate on 24 hour clocks.
    This is kind of funny because "Yes" our bodies do operate on a 24 hour clock

    But I get the good point you are making, and agree.

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