How Can You Maintain Your Weight Loss?
How Can You Maintain Your Weight Loss?
If you have started losing some weight, it is very important to think of how to maintain that weight loss in the days ahead.
It may seem hard to believe for you, but taking your weight off is the easy part. To maintain weight loss for ever is where the real challenge lies. Are you like me? Tried countless of diets, only to gain the weight back. The most people lose lots of weight on diets everyday, but 95% of them gain it back because they have focused only on the weight loss. They follow the diet until they get to a particular number on the scale and then, shortly after, they go back to the old lifestyle that made them overweight in the first place. After some time, the weight comes right back.
The real truth is, everyone can lose bodyfat, but only 5% of the people keep it off. These are the Weight Loss Registry’s figures, not mine. The Weight Loss Register followed highly successful dieters and came up with 7 reasons why people were able to keep the weight off.
The seven reasons for succes:
1. Dieters accepted failure and kept on trying;
2. Dieters did not deny themselves-they indulged from time to time;
3. Dieters weighed themselves often;
4. Dieters exercised one hour a day;
5. Dieters added little bits of activity into their daily life;
6. Dieters followed a high carb and low fat diet;
7. Dieters ate 5 meals a day.
I did compare my own weight loss success to the list above. I learned how to maintain weight loss due to the following: I always will do the best I can with what I have available. Not always I am in a perfect situation with the healthiest choices. But I make do with what is there and I stick to my plan. If I make some not so healthy choices, I don’t beat myself up for this.
I eat use the finest ingredients to make the most delicious meals and has helped me stick to Living Well. If I wanted to indulge, I would make it from scratch using the healthiest ingredients possible. To me, indulging does not mean eating junk.
I use a tape measure to keep tabs on my weight and occasionally weigh myself.
Sometimes I struggle with exercising regularly for one hour a day consistently. I will do heavy housework or running of other activities around the house to get my heart rate up and I try different forms of exercise like swimming all the time because I get bored easily.
I think it is important to get moving one hour every day. It doesn’t mean you have to be in an aerobics class or on some sort of machine to get your heart rate up. Moste of the time I eat organic whole foods and healthy oils. I am not sold on the idea that low fat and high carb is the way to go. High fat is not the answer either, but healthy oils are not the enemy. The rights oils will actually speed up your metabolism. I eat 5 meals a day and rarely snack. I do better when I don’t snack or graze on food the whole day. You must do what works best for you!
The Most Important Of All: I daly think of the health I have now and my future health Everyday. I really want to enjoy my older years and I want to be very healthy. I don’t want to sit in a rocking chair, talking about all my symptoms and the things that ail me when I am in my golden years.
The Weight Loss Registry tips and my maintenance tips are not the only path for you, but instead are some ideas you can use to come up with your own way to keep the weight off once you have lost it.
Eventually, I think it is important to focus on your personal health when changing over to a healthier lifestyle. A lot people are in a hurry to lose weight. They spend their entire lives putting on the weight, losing the weight temporarily on diets and just wanting to get rid of it as fast as possible, not taking into consideration their state of health. I know you have heard this many times before, but if you don’t have your health, you don’t have much. Being thin will mean nothing to you if you compromise your health along the way.
Losing weight slowly is better for you! Your goal is to take off the the bodyfat and keep it off for ever. Even just a couple of pounds a month adds up over the course of a year. And for those that were doing everything they could and continuing to gain weight, just stopping that weight gain is a measure of success.
With usefull great tips, you now for your life how to maintain weight loss. Give yourself time to adjust to a new and healthy lifestyle. Also important is enjoy yourself along the way. Think about it? Afther one year from now how your body will be thanking you for it! Think about the resulst!
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