For those on a weight loss “journey” (I’m not a big fan of the phrase, but it does work), have you thought about what happens when you get to your destination?
Of course you have.
You’ll be leaner, fitter, healthier, happier.
You’ll look better, feel better, and be treated better by others.
Shopping will be a joy, looking in the mirror will be a pleasure, and life will be grand.
Right?
Maybe not.
Read about one woman’s experience with the “after” portion of “before and after,” then see if some of your own ideas might be a little unrealistic.
Thanks to Lisa at Can Anybody Hear Me? for her candid and well written piece. Click here for her post.
Do you agree with her? Have you found your “happily ever after” or are you still on the “journey?”
BulgingButtons 
April 23, 2015 at 4:41 am
Maintenance is the hardest part of my whole journey! Loosing weight is a lot easier. When you are on a diet you follow a “diet” plan….a “workout plan” ect….There is a million places to look for support. But when you hit “goal” all of a sudden you are on your own……abandoned…..like all of a sudden you know what you are doing! That’s why so many people re-gain…..it isn’t that they just stopped caring. They just didn’t know what to do!
April 23, 2015 at 6:15 am
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never actually stuck with any plan long enough to get to goal, so I don’t have firsthand experience with this, but I can only imagine how exhausting it must be to constantly walk the tight-rope between “enough” and “too much.” Thanks for your perspective.
April 23, 2015 at 4:01 pm
Thank you for sharing this. The real work is loving ourselves. PERIOD. No shape or size can do that for us.
April 23, 2015 at 4:45 pm
So true. It sounds so easy but it can be so difficult.
April 24, 2015 at 12:43 pm
Great, great, great, post. Thanks for sharing, Heidi. I’ve lost and found myself so many times. It’s so disorienting. About 1.5 years ago something clicked mysteriously. I’m at my ideal weight now and I love it because it doesn’t define me one way or another. Maintaining my weight is now just how I roll, a pain in the neck sometimes, but mostly the air I breathe. Other things are becoming the air I breathe too, and I can’t explain it all. But I find it a great relief to not be aiming so hard for AFTER. I’m just doing my best to enjoy right now. By chance are you on MyFitnessPal? I’m AngieMc6 and glad to connec there.
April 24, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Nothing seems to be clicking for me at the moment but I refuse to give up!
April 24, 2015 at 1:35 pm
I soooo empathize! Non-clicking can go on for so very long…but that doesn’t mean that each little piece isn’t getting us closer to the click! My MFP pals told me that they liked this line that I shared in a recent post, “Failure? Who cares. Some days suck. I fail every day at this. And I don’t care. I just keep going.” Let’s root for each other!
April 24, 2015 at 4:44 pm
Oh, I do love that team spirit!
April 24, 2015 at 7:26 pm
All in!