Mon, May-05-14, 08:26
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Attitude is a Choice
Posts: 30,111
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Plan: No sugar, flour, wheat
Stats: 228.4/209.0/170
BF:stl/too/mch
Progress: 33%
Location: NYC
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Media for weight loss maintenance
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dia...ing-weight-loss
Tips for Maintaining Weight Loss
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Yay! You've improved your eating habits, stayed away from chips and other fried foods, ate more vegetables, and walked 30 minutes almost every day. You lost weight and are at your goal! Your blood glucose levels and hemoglobin A1c have improved—now what?
What can you do to keep those pounds from coming back?
The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) was started in 1994 to document successful examples of weight loss and to show a skeptical public that it is indeed possible to lose weight and keep it off. The NWCR also offers recommendations based on the real-life experiences and characteristics of the individuals who have succeeded in losing at least 30 pounds and have kept it off for at least one year.
According to the NWCR, here are some of the behaviors that help people maintain weight loss:
•Continue a low-calorie meal plan, about 1,300 calories a day for women and 1,700 calories a day for men.
•Continue limiting foods that are high in fat.
•Eat breakfast every day.
•Continue regular exercise: 90 percent of the successful participants exercise about one hour a day.
•Aim to eat roughly the same foods on weekends that you are eating on weekdays.
•Continue to weigh yourself frequently—75 percent of participants weigh themselves at least once a week.
•Limit watching television to 10 hours or less each week.
How they lost the weight isn't that important
Interestingly, the method of weight loss did not matter. People lost weight with a variety of approaches—an organized program, weight-loss surgery, liquid nutritional supplements, their own plan, and so forth.
How they kept it off is what matters
All participants, however, reported similar strategies to maintain their weight losses. People who regained weight were those who had a harder time maintaining the behavior changes that they had put into practice while losing weight. Compared to the successful participants, these folks often experienced significant levels of depression and their susceptibility to overeating seemed to be influenced more by their inner feelings and thoughts.
For more information, or to join the NWCR, visit the website.
And, again, congratulations on losing that weight and keeping it off!
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