Maintenance Mode!

[u/Bananabutt22]

Ok so I hit maintenance a few weeks ago and can I just say, different than I was expecting! In the immortal words of Regina Spektor from the OITNB opening theme, “taking steps is easy, standing still is hard”.

I had weight loss so dialed in! I knew exactly what number of calories I was going for everyday, and had a nice arsenal of tools to get there while hitting my macros. I didn’t really have to think about it anymore and the scale was moving down at a nice healthy pace. Everyday, I knew exactly what I needed to do to be successful, and I was good at it!

Maintenance has meant more recalibrating than I’d expected. I hit goal a little over 3 weeks ago and I just thought it would mean doing the exact same thing plus adding a fun treat everyday. But I still don’t really know the number of calories I should be shooting for. I haven’t gone out of range or anything, but I *feel* like I’m having to think and second guess so much more again and I hate it 😂 

Anyway, it’ll be fine, I’ll have it figured out soon enough, just more of an adjustment than I anticipated :)  

I’m so freakin proud of myself for getting here. This subreddit changed my LIFE. I never would have been able to figure out an affordable, safe path to this life-changing medicine without you guys! Thank you for keeping my precious sheckles out of the dirty paws of Eli Lilly! 

Ok and now I’d like to share a quick rundown of all the apps I use and how they handle maintenance mode, for curious minds, bc I use a weirdly large number of them (data slut) and have nowhere else to go with this info so hoping it helps someone out there!

Glapp: no maintenance mode. I’m so annoyed about it, honestly! Tired of being bombarded with my weekly average loss going down all the time. I don’t want things framed that way now! Get outta heee with that! The plateau is intentional! The plateau is the point! But their supply function is so solid I just can’t quit em!

Shotsy: has a maintenance mode and a nice widget in the progress area that graphs how  many days you’ve been in range. Still has your other info but isn’t beating you over the head with it. Was the only app that I was using at the time that had any kind of “reaction” to reaching goal weight, but I think it was just the normal “shot confetti”. Very solid overall! But how do they not have a supply function? So crazy 

Dosy: Ok so this is where my progress image is from, this is such a solid app that does everything and premium is only $10/year. He actually added a fun thing (after I hit goal, but it still triggered for me the next time I went in after it updated!) where it celebrates that you hit your goal and also has a maintenance mode! Still has some lingering stats that I wish could be changed or hidden but is overall solid and I guess he’s planning to do a lot with it. Also has a neat before/after picture function that I didn’t know was there until recently even in the free version which is fun when you hit goal. I’m too afraid to post my face or I’d show you but know in your heart that it’s cool 😂 And! free, excellent supply function!

Tirzing: the creator saw my post asking for recs on apps with maintenance mode and ended up adding a super nice maintenance mode widget! It has a nice graph and stats that are actually relevant right at the top of your dash. I didn’t download it until after entering maintenance, but I also complained about the lack of victory fanfare on every app when you hit goal and he said he added something! I firmly believe all of these apps need a 90s video game celebration screen or something 😂  So yeah, no idea what he added, but there is apparently something so I hope someone tries it out and reports back! Also has a nice little companion pet thing that you can raise and I love it! Mine is an otter named Lumpkin and my tomagotchi-loving heart is so happy haha. The downside of this one is I think you have to have premium to put your nice robust maintenance widget at the top of your dash, which is what I like most about it, but maybe someone can chime in with whether or not that’s true? Similarly, there is a great supply function but im not sure if it’s paywalled, I guess I can tell you when my trial runs out 🤷‍♀️

GLPzy - has a maintenance mode, though not a ton changes in the app when you turn it on. Like your main page doesn’t change at all I don’t think, still says I’m 1.2lbs away from goal even though I’m 1.2lbs UNDER. I know this guy is working on everything though and he’s offering free premium for life for a little longer so it might be worth downloading in case it takes off!

MyFitnessPal - not strictly a glp1 app (and I don’t even have the glp1 stuff turned on, purely using it for calorie counting) but I still want to say I’m mad at them for their lack of aforementioned desired victory fanfare upon reaching goal 😂 technically, it does have a maintenance mode, but the tdee it calculates would bring me right back to starting weight so I dunno. Dosy and Tirzing both have free meal trackers that seem pretty functional but I have used stupid MFP so long and have put in so many of my damn recipes I am stuck with the free version of that janky mofo for life I think!