the follow-up pages are the part i actually refresh for

Yep, the follow-up pages are the real tell. I’ve kept a boring note in my phone since year one: waist at navel, pushups to form, how winded I am on the hill by my house.

Scale is the least useful column. There was an old thread here about “maintenance is just your environment with better PR” and that stuck.

Since coming off, my food noise didn’t come back as a shout—more like a radio left on in another room. Curious for the 24-month folks: did your grocery cart or your portion size change first when it crept back?

Food noise is the metric I wish more updates covered. I run a cafe, so I taste-test all day: a corner of scone, a spoon of soup, a broken cookie.

I started keeping a note called “bites that don’t count” and it was easily 300–400 cal before lunch. Now I make one tiny tasting plate, then wrap the rest and put it out of reach before the rush.

Not saintly, but it cut the mindless grazing. For the 12/24-month folks: did the pastry case ever stop feeling like a personal dare?

And did tracking fullness/hunger instead of calories hold up longer than a scle number?

Same—I go straight to the body-comp and withdrawal tables. In the trials I’ve read, the lean-mass question gets messy because DEXA vs BIA give different numbers, and without a resistance-training arm it’s hard to separate treatment effect from the usual weight-loss mix.

Personally I’ve been tracking grip strength and protein per kg alongside a smart scale; the scale is noisy as hell, but grip and waist have been better early signals. Sharp follow-up: has any extension readout actually reported food-noise scores at 12 months post-stop, or is it mostly regain percentages?

I can never find that granularity.

This is why I started a monthly doorway photo plus waist-to-height, not just the scale. My weight stalled for a stretch, but my pants got looser and my afternoon walks stopped feeling like a chore.

I also added a 10-minute dumbbell thing before coffee because I worried about losing muscle along with the fat. Has anyone else tracked resting heart rate or walking pace after the loss slowed?

Those are the quiet numbers that kept me from spiraling when the headline number didn’t move.

Sorry to hijack — but does anyone else track non-scale stuff like resting heart rate or how many stairs before you’re winded? I’ve been doing that since my regain, and it’s humbling but useful.

Back to the thread: the follow-up pages I’d kill for are the ones that show what people actually kept doing at 12 months, not just whether they stayed on something.

Like, did their grocery cart stay changed? Did they still pre-portion snacks? I lost 60, regained 25, and the only things that stuck were sparkling water and walking after dinner.

I want to know if those tiny keels are what keeps any loss, or if it’s mostly luck/genetics. The lean-mass line is the one that scares me.

The lean-mass piece is what I watch too, but DEXA is pricey here, so I track grip strength and my time to climb two flights once a month. Boring, but it caught a dip before my weight changed.

One thing I haven’t seen in the follow-up pages: resting heart rate and sleep after stopping. Did anyone notice their resting HR creep up before appetite changed?

I’m trying to learn my early-warning signs without over-reading every blip.

My maintenance tab tracks weekly protein average, steps, resistance sessions, sleep. n=1: when protein drops ~15% below my 12-week baseline, my regain slope kicks in about 6 weeks later, and the scale lags another 2–3.

Sharp follow-up question: do the 12/24-month papers report adherence to resistance training/protein at all, or only total kg regained? That’s the unglamorous table I’d actually refresh for.