What To Do After You Reach Goal?!

[HeatherMarie 4]

I am not there yet but much closer to a healthy weight than .. well EVER! Feel great and people are really starting to notice and comment. It's a wonderful thing but being obese all my life a large majority of time has been spent thinking about losing weight, trying to lose weight, etc. Now I am starting to have odd feelings about being at (or around) goal weight. What do I strive for? What will a large portion of my world be substituted with? I know that once I hit that ellusive # or size I won't be pooping gum drops or riding around on unicorns but it just feels odd for lack of a better term.

Thanks for listening!

Any thoughts?

[Allison0927 329]

i'm glad you asked this because i'm wondering the same thing - i am about 20-25 pounds from goal and i'm wondering how my mindset will need to change - right now it's lose, lose, lose - i imagine instead of getting on the scale every morning praying for a lower number i'll be equally begging for it to be the "same" number - which will be a very, very odd thought/feeling for me since i do not recall a time when i ever stepped on a scale not hoping for a loss since the last time i was on the scale.

[xavier 153]

The slower you lose the more you wont have to change at goal. You will have already long been out of diet mode. At least that was true for me. I just do exactly as I did before I reached goal and my weight naturally levelled off at a normal BMI. The main adjustment now is getting used to not being fat and making myself pick up a size 6 in a store because I never think they will fit but they always do. My weight never changes by more than two pounds and I am finally not weighing myself every single day.

I never dieted or worked out so I just let my band help me eat less and I gave some real thought to the choices I ate so for me the losing phase and the maintaining phase arent that different.

[Passionatehrt 15]

The slower you lose the more you wont have to change at goal. You will have already long been out of diet mode. At least that was true for me. I just do exactly as I did before I reached goal and my weight naturally levelled off at a normal BMI. The main adjustment now is getting used to not being fat and making myself pick up a size 6 in a store because I never think they will fit but they always do. My weight never changes by more than two pounds and I am finally not weighing myself every single day.

I never dieted or worked out so I just let my band help me eat less and I gave some real thought to the choices I ate so for me the losing phase and the maintaining phase arent that different.

How long have you been banded?

[shakey88 37]

I also was wondering this as I am getting pretty darn close, but I am still losing rapidly. I lost 9.6 pounds just last week...I do not want to have to problem of being underweight

[Jachut 487]

Well dont ask me, ive been below goal for years and my body demons have not gone away. I havent suddenly accepted myself at mormal weight, I lways think about losing more and staying at a BMI of 20 takes quite a lot of focus and energy.

So.... Life hasnt really changed that much in that sense. Dont get me wrong, I Love my new body, i enjoy being thin, i wake up thankful very day. But I ill never be a persn who just doesn think about what they eat or weigh.

Im happy though. It doesnt overwhelm my life, and I dont live on a diet. I guess if anyhing Ive shifted focus to fitness achievements, Im a running fanatic.