I started my weight loss journey in April-ish 2023. I had just turned 50, had some poor health results, was 5 feet tall and obese, and I had a lot of physical limitations due to weight.
Since then, I have lost 115 pounds, and have been maintaining since about June of this year.
I had it in my mind that maintenance was going to be the easy part…and yes I: - eat regularly and without worry about eating over a deficit - am less focused on a number on a scale and tracking and more focused on health, fitness, and happiness - am eating nutritionally well, love the gym, and feel good mentally and physically - in general, am much happier and balanced because I can do any activity I want, and am not held back by weight
But my “second journey” of maintenance has also included times of: - extreme fear of re-gain - seeking therapy to work on my emotional issues (it helped) - gaining and going back to a flurry of deficit and tracking in a panic - over exercising, under-exercising, forgetting exercise altogether - eating terribly and going back to old habits and being angry at myself - body dysmorphia for a long time (it’s way better now fyi) - some loose skin (again, it’s getting better all the time)
Through all this, I’ve had one mantra, and that’s always keep trying, and I always get back to balance.
In some ways, I miss the weight loss period because you have a strict plan to follow and you know what you’re doing every day and have a goal. In maintenance, your goal is much more elusive, to stay healthy, to have fitness goals, to eat well, to find mental health balance. I kind of think it’s where the real internal work on ourselves has to start, if we are to keep maintaining a healthy lifestyle after a large amount of weight loss.
Thanks for listening to my musings, this was triggered someone noticing today my upper body is jacked now, which, I kind of knew but didn’t!
Here’s my latest before and after: May 2023 - December 2024 https://imgur.com/a/GGpJ08D
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