Hit my goal weight in the spring of 2023 and I've stayed inside a five-pound band since. The surprise is how much the daily texture changed while the scale barely moved.
I weigh on Sunday mornings now, not daily, and the number mostly confirms what I already noticed — climbing the hill by my house without negotiating with myself, sleeping through the night.
The habits that stuck are unglamorous: a protein shake I genuinely like, getting off one stop early, eating dinner at the table instead of standing at the counter. The ones that didn't — the pre-dawn gym phase, the meticulous macro app — I dropped without much guilt.
Nobody warns you that maintenance is boring in the best way. There's no milestone coming, just a Tuesday where lunch is normal and I don't think about it.
For anyone a year or more out: did your tracking get simpler or more elaborate over time?