As I move closer to reaching my goal weight range, I'm starting to get a little nervous about whether I'll be able to maintain my new healthy weight. You hear all the stories about how everyone regains what they've lost plus ten pounds. I'm going to be on the lookout for all the suggestions and tips out there about maintaining. Bear with me, I'll probably get a bit obsessive about this.Here's one for today with promising research findings:
Although regaining weight is the norm, it is by no means inevitable. Consider the National Weight Control Registry. The average registrant has lost about 60 pounds and has maintained this loss for about five years -- no small feat for a group of people who, in two-thirds of the cases, were overweight since childhood. ...
One particularly interesting finding from the Registry participants: The risk of relapse appears to decrease over time. In other words, the longer you keep off the weight, the less effort it takes to maintain good eating and exercise habits.
Believe!
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6 comments:
I hope you find the maintenance answer, Lee. As you know, I'm trying to find the right balance to maintain a large loss. My doctor considers me a success story but sometimes I don't feel that way.
Love your blog, by the way.
I hope you do get obsessive, and then by the time I get to maintenance mode, I'll have a plan. :-)
Lee, you can do it! The people that lose it the right way first have the best success of keeping it off. You have been doing that by eating well & exercising. I was once a member of the registry but during a very bad work period & stress period, I stopped... but it is true, the longer you are at it, the more it is just part of your life. PLUS, eating breakfast is also a big part of successful registry members. I think you have the right mind set & I am sure you will keep it off. Stay in tune with yourself, your feelings & these online support people are a great help.
Just keep listening to your bod & staying true to yourself. Don't let others get you down or upset. It is not worth all the effort you put into you getting healthy!!!
I think it is going to be a lifelong journey and that's what people forget. You can't go on a diet and then off, like taking asprin until your "cured" of your headache.
I wonder if the people who Slip back are staying "aware" or are just getting comfortable.
An athelete doesn't stop working out. To keep a car in good shape you need to take care of it and keep it tuned up.
I think I'm going to have to look at the scale from time to time (once I get there) to make sure I stay there. I'm going to have to make sure my portions stay cup and not slip back to supersized. And look at the exersize I've been getting to see if I fall back into sloth mode.
Obsessive perhaps... perhaps it needs that kind of commitment.
Being obsessed is the foolsfitness way!-Alan
Nice to read some good news about post-weight loss success. It's a tough go that I hope to attain sometime before I start collecting Social Security.
Lee consistency is key and always challenging your body. If you stay consistent, work hard, and cheat and reward yourself once in awhile I have no doubt that you will be a success.
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