How Do I Keep the Weight Off?

After you have lost all the weight you wanted and reached your goal weight, your new challenge is going to be maintaining your current weight.

And this can become easier or harder depending on the method you have used for losing the weight. If you did one of these quick weight loss diets were you live on soup for a month or something. The problem is that you have not changed your lifestyle, so as soon as you stop the diet you will go back to your old routine and gain all the weight back.

But if you have done some lifestyle changes, you followed a diet that you can keep doing, with normal food. Maybe you are out running with your dog 3-4 times a week or going to the gym 4 times a week. Then you just need to keep doing that also. It is your new lifestyle.

You can never go back to your old eating habits and routines that you had before you lost the weight. Because it was those habits and routines that made you gain the weight in the first place.

Watching the Scale

One more thing that can help you to maintain your weight is to get up on the scale and check your weight at least once a week or more. Because then you can see if your weight is starting to go up before you have gained a lot of weight already.

If you don’t check your weight regularly, you can start to put on weight without you noticing it. Maybe you check only once a month. You may have gained 3-4 kg in that month. If you checked it weekly or daily, you could have seen it when you gained only half a kg, and done something about it then already, before you gained too much weight.

Skipping Meals

If you want to maintain your current weight, you should not skip any meals. If you skip meals it can lower your metabolism. And it can also mean that next time you eat during the day, you will be very hungry and probably over eat.

Exercise

You are going to keep doing exercise even after you have lost the weight. Your body needs to be active. So you keep your metabolism high and burn some calories. Otherwise your body can begin storing up to many calories and you will start to put weight on again.

Stefan Edlundr
Owner of howtolosequickweight.com