Maintain Your Goal Weight - 3 Keys to Success

Anyone who has ever lost weight and put it all (and more) back on again knows that losing fat is not the hard part in a weight control diet.  And let's face it, we have all been there and experienced the frustration and heartbreak of yo yo dieting. 

Losing fat is simple, but not easy.  It takes sustained effort and determination, but that pales into insignificance when it comes to maintaining your goal weight.

People lose weight in an amazing variety of ways.  From liquid diets, to high protein diets, to Atkins and Weight Watchers and beyond, fat folk like me and you have successfully foiled their flubber. 

How you go about losing fat is quite an individual journey without many rules except the indisputable one.  You have to eat less than your body needs in order to lose fat. 

That's a given.

Once the fat is off, then what?  Scientists at Brown and Colorado Universities have collaborated to discover that while you can take whatever path gets you to goal weight, the methods you have to use to remain at this point must include at least the following 3 tactics.

1.  You have to stop dieting for weight loss and start eating for a weight control diet for life.  So although you can eat more calories once you reach goal weight, what you eat must be nutritionally sound.  Never return to the eating habits that got you fat in the first place.

2.  You have to keep moving.  Don't give up the exercise.  Once you are fit and trim, you have to keep moving it or you'll lose it.

3.  Continue to monitor your weight and fat percentage.  Keep a record in your weight control journal (remember it used to be your weight loss journal, but you've made it, baby).  Don't get paranoid but be alert for any significant trends and fix them before they get out of control.

To maintain your goal weight and keep a hold of that wonderful positive feeling of having done what you once thought was an impossible dream, you have to use these 3 keys.

Keep eating well.  You know exactly how to do it.  Keep exercising.  Exercise should have become an unshakable and thoroughly enjoyable habit by now.  When you slip up as we all do, forgive yourself for the fall and get straight back into the diet and exercise that has done so much for you.

You will not fail to maintain your goal weight.