I’m not big on anniversary posts, but this month marks eight years since I started and about five since I landed near 168. My highest was 452.
These days my maintenance is boring on purpose: I weigh four mornings a week, walk 25 minutes after dinner, and keep a two-week trend rule instead of reacting to any single number.
If the line drifts up for 14 days, I go back to measuring lunch portions and adding a protein snack in the afternoon. That’s it. No dramatic reset, no all-or-nothing week.
The mental shift was realizing maintenance isn’t a finish line I crossed; it’s a set of small defaults I keep choosing. For people who’ve been at this a while, what’s one unglamorous habit that still does the heavy lifting for you?