For today, let's get back to basics. Maintenance Phase One: letting go of the deficit and getting used to not seeing the numbers on the scale go down. I'm maintaining pretty damn steady these days, and still every morning there's a tang of disappointment when the number on the scale hasn't gone down. It doesn't control me, and it's just a fleeting thought, but it's a fleeting thought every morning. So I'm thinking I'm going to weigh twice a week for a while. See if that helps.
When you're just getting started on maintenance, losing that deficit is even harder. This is especially true for those of us who come from a high BMI. We're scared to go back there, scared to put all that weight back on. And so we're scared of that one extra Mars bar, that one extra ice cream cone we now have room for in our budget. Wasn't it those Mars bars and ice cream cones that got us to our highest weight in the first place?
No, it wasn't. I didn't get to a BMI of 38 by eating pizza for lunch that one time. I got there by eating danishes (yes, plural) for breakfast, pizza for lunch, club sandwich for dinner and potato chips as a late night snack. It's the accumulation that matters, not the single event. Consistency is what matters. So if your base diet is on point, then you can just keep the habits you've built during the weight loss phase.
If you build sustainable habits during weight loss, the change you need to make to eat at maintenance is smaller. Keep the healthy base diet, and just add an extra Mars bar. If the switch from your deficit to your maintenance level is several hundred calories, just take it one step at a time. Add 100 calories, eat like that for a week. Then add 100 more and keep at it for the week. Lather, rinse, repeat til you're at maintenance.-
TL;DR
Change is hard, but if you're (almost) readying yourself for maintenance, you already did the hardest part. You changed for the better, now you just have to keep it going. You can do this.
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Anything else on your mind pertaining maintenance? Is your diet going effortlessly, or have the last few weeks been more of a struggle? All questions, remarks and worries are welcome topics of conversation!
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