Tips to Maintain Your Weight Loss

Don't Yo Yo!

You've worked hard to lose weight so now it is important to make sure you don't regain it. The last thing you want is to have to start a diet over again. Having been successful and lost weight, you'll be feeling and looking fantastic and that's the way you want to stay.

So many people manage to lose weight successfully, only to pile it all back on, and more, a few months later. This must feel so soul destroying, but it doesn't have to happen to you.

It is important to realise that you can't revert back to your old eating habits. Those habits made you fat and and they'll make you fat again. You just can't let yourself do that.

You don't need to carry on dieting as such, but hopefully you'll have made some lifestyle changes, so just be aware that you need to maintain your weight loss. This isn't difficult to do and there's no reason why you can't stay slim and enjoy your new size for ever.

What You Can Do To Maintain Your Weight Loss.

Set a Margin

You need to allow yourself a range within which your weight can fluctuate. A fluctuation in weight is completely normal and nothing to worry about as long as it has its limits.

A gain of 3lbs is a good margin. It gives you enough leeway to enjoy a special occasion or holiday and is not too difficult to deal with.

It is far easier to lose 3lbs than 14lbs, so once you decide on a margin, stick to it. A few diet changes and it will soon be off again.

As soon as you see your weight reach the limit, deal with it straight away. This is how slim people stay slim.

Strict Diet Days V Easy Diet Days

Many people find that they find it easiest to be strict about what they eat during the week so that they can relax and have whatever they like during the weekends.

This could be a plan that works for you. Basically the overall amount of calories consumed each week needs to be enough to maintain the weight loss, but fewer calories are eaten during the week, allowing a deficit that can be eaten at weekends.

If you eat out frequently, you may find the way to do it is to be strict with yourself at home and then relax for the meals out.

Many people struggle during weekends or when eating out so it helps to have a plan that allows for eating more at these times.

Remember that there has to be some discipline if you don't want to go back to being overweight.

Maintain Your Exercise Level

You most likely increased your exercise levels in some way while you were dieting, so it is important to maintain that level. Exercise is a big factor in being able to maintain your weight loss, so stick with it.

Exercise will also help you to maintain a higher metabolic rate. This will have helped you lose weight and it will help to prevent you from gaining fat. Remember that lean muscle mass helps to burn more calories throughout the day.

Have a Treat

Treats are important. They give us something to look forward to, they reward us for something good and comfort us when we need it. If you try to deny treats you will soon become fed up and start to regain weight. Allow yourself a small treat each day or save some up for more at the weekend.

Take care though, this is where you need to be sensible. It is important that a regular treat isn't too calorific. A Mars Bar a day will not do!

Choose something nice that will not ruin all your hard your work. If you really, really must have that Mars Bar, then have it as a once a week treat, but be sure to cut back on the daily treats. You can't have both!

If you're craving biscuits, have one or two, enjoy, and then put the packet away. A 100 calorie or so treat really won't have much influence on your weight but six or seven of them will. Remember that and you'll keep yourself in check.

Try a Weight Loss Product

If you go through a period where you feel you are struggling to maintain your weight loss, don't give in. There are always going to be times in life when it is more difficult than at others. You may want to consider using a weight loss product for a while. Natural products such as like Proactol Plus, which is a fat binder or Full Fast, which is an appetite suppressant can be very beneficial to help get you past the problem. Proactol binds with the fat in your diet making up to a quarter of it indigestible. This is fantastic news when you have a special occasion to enjoy! Fullfast helps by curbing appetite so you lose those feelings of hunger that are so easy to give into!

Keep to these tips and they will help you maintain your weight for ever. Remember that a little self discipline goes a long way and remind yourself of the well known saying....

"Nothing tastes as good as being slim feels".

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