great post lisa--it's so helpful to us pre-maintenance people, too, to see what life looks like on the 'other side of goal.'

Your comments remind me of the Lunson articles at carbsmart that your post (via Nat) led me to. She talks about the "needing new goals"/"losing the excitement of weight loss success" issues in her past columns.

I think your insight into over-monitoring is a good one. Finding a mental balance so that long-term weight maintenance isn't just another overly-fixated face of eating disorders but focused enough so that the weight stays off and the dangerous carbs are under control: that's going to be quite a trick for many of us! Please keep us informed on how your strategies work.