If you want to weigh 140 on average, keep losing until 138. You will regain 2 pounds quickly. Else you will average 142..

Anonymous wrote:You don't do anything or change anything.

If you lose weight the right way (slow, steady, sustainable, no diets, no restrictions) then your body just stops losing, naturally. And you keep doing exactly what you've been doing while you were actively losing.

To add: I lost 60lbs in my mid 30s, and have kept it off for 10 years (now mid-40s)

You don't do anything or change anything.

If you lose weight the right way (slow, steady, sustainable, no diets, no restrictions) then your body just stops losing, naturally. And you keep doing exactly what you've been doing while you were actively losing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maintenance is the real diet

+1000

And people don't realize it. Maintaining is so much harder than losing. Even for people like me who lose a lot (I lost 60lbs, gained it all back, then lost 80 and ... wait for it ... gained it all back).

Why do you think?

If someone is successfully losing (slowly) by eating 1400 calories for example - do they not have the discipline to then maintain by eating 1500 per day going forward?

Anonymous wrote:Maintenance is the real diet

+1000

And people don't realize it. Maintaining is so much harder than losing. Even for people like me who lose a lot (I lost 60lbs, gained it all back, then lost 80 and ... wait for it ... gained it all back).

I started gaining it back. Almost immediately.

Unfortunately.

I MIGHT schedule some "mini lipo" for my lil' batwings and inner thighs (no, not kidding and yes, I exercise) but I have almost 30 to get to my first goal (get back to my best of 163) and then about 18-33 more after that before worrying about maintenance.

Eat a bunch of ice cream and regularly attend taco Tuesdays and $10 burger night during trivia at the pub on Thursdays.

I understand OP to be asking what people will do to mark the success and celebrate it.

I am 3lbs away from my goal weight after losing 32lbs.

I already have a plan to schedule a long luxurious spa day followed by a nice restaurant meal during which I intend to drink more wine than I have in the past five months (which is zero)

Maintenance is the real diet

If you think of the way you eat as as one sort of temporary diet, rather than an ongoing lifestyle of healthy food choices, then you will absolutely regain the weight and struggle to maintain.

As we age and loss muscle mass our metabolism continues to decrease. You need to monitor and adjust as time goes by to maintain your weight.

I suggest eating a reasonable amount of chipotle today at lunch, stopping when satiated, and learning to think of food as (enjoyable) fuel, not a reward.

You dont want to wait until you reach your goal to eat chipolte?

Look into “reverse dieting”

Troll

I am 5'7 and my goal was to reach 170. I am 178, so i am going to eat Chipotle for lunch what the best thing to do when you are reaching your goal?