Many people ask how to maintain your weight once you hit your goal. After reading and researching a lot of different articles and other web sites, here are the simplest and most basic things I have found. Some of these tips and ideas are going to help those of us still trying to lose now. It all goes hand in hand when you think about it.
Stay Active ? You?ve been exercising and working to lose the weight, now to maintain?keep doing it! All it takes is 30 minutes a day 3-4 days a week to actively maintain your current weight. If you aren't active, getting started can help reduce your weight and, improve your health.
Walk - A walk might not seem like "exercise" to people who sweat at the gym, but research has shown considerable health benefits from walking. Research has shown that, those who walked briskly about three hours a week were 35 percent less likely to have a heart attack over an eight-year period than the those who only walked occasionally..
Watch What You Eat - If you are to the point of maintaining, you already know how to do this. Just stick with it. It?s already gotten much easier to do this by now. The occasional treat isn?t going to blow things out of the water. Have you noticed that even the super skinny people eat cake and ice cream? Well, so can you. You?ve worked hard to get here, why not enjoy yourself. You just have to remember that it has to be worked back off.
Keep track of your calories - To maintain your current weight, you have to burn more calories than you consume. If keeping a journal/diary while you were losing helped you out, then why not stick with it? This way you are still seeing what you are doing to make maintenance work.
Practice defensive eating ? These are things you have learned already, or are learning now. This just reinforces those ideas!
*Stop before you are stuffed.
*Eat slowly. It takes 25 minutes for you to start feeling full. If you eat fast, you take in more than you need.
*Eat small portions
*Don?t eat just because it?s available. If you need to snack, stock up on things you know are healthy and don?t sabotage yourself.
Losing weight is hard work no doubt. Maintaining once that weight is gone can be just as hard. Remember what you?ve learned during the process of losing and maintenance will be that much easier!
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