Hello, helpful friends. I came over to this section of the forum because I want to continue my active acquaintance with those of you who have actually achieved maintenance. I'm within 12-15lb of goal, and expect to continue dropping very slowly. Those 2-3 month plateaus are annoying, but the direction is right.

I've found that I can easily hit nutrient (and calorie) goals without counting. I weigh at least every other day. About once a week, I put my daily food into Fitday, just to make sure I'm not, um, fudging. I'm continuing my 3x/wk strength training workouts, and I walk as often as I feel like it. All that sounds like maintenance to me. So the hard part has already started: to keep doing it.

It was fun yesterday to put on a pair of summer shorts and they were not tight. Yay! The change of seasons is always "dread time" for roller-coaster weight watchers like me. I'll try to keep that in mind as the days and months of "boring" maintenance roll by.

Thanks for being good role models.