How to maintain a healthy body weight

After the initial success of losing weight from going on a diet people realise how difficult it can be to prevent that weight going back on again. Diets are designed to help you lose weight they are not designed to keep it off. Therefore, many people experience putting even more weight back on soon after finishing a diet.

   To increase your chances of staying on course and maintaining a healthy body weight will depend on how motivated you are. To maintain the weight you lost you will have to go beyond your diet regime. That is why diets are ineffective because they are only a quick fix. What you need to know is that successfully keeping weight down is about changing your lifestyle. This makes it easier because you are not just focusing on food. Diets do not work because they work in isolation and that is why their results are short lived.

   When you are on a diet you are usually restricting certain foods. This can be difficult to do especially, when you do not see the results of your hard work. However, when you change your lifestyle you are changing or balancing other aspects of your life that include taking more exercise and improving relationships between family and friends etc.

   Changing your eating habits can be tough when you are at a social event and there are certain foods that you have to avoid. In the beginning of the change there is no point in denying that it will be difficult and hard. However, because you are focusing on improving your lifestyle in other areas of your life you do not have to be that strict when it comes to what you eat. For example, if you start to take regular exercise as part of your lifestyle change then, you do not have to be as restrictive in the food that you eat, because you know you can burn the calories off later.

   You should also keep a positive mindset. Put the experiences of failed diets in the past and focus on how you can change your situation today. You need to challenge the negative thoughts that come into your head and replace them with positive ones.

   Begin to start setting out goals to ensure you lose weight. Having a target to aim for gives your mind something to focus on. Setting goals gives you a better chance of achieving your weight loss. When setting your gaols make them realistic and time restrictive. Break your goals down into smaller ones that will push you but realistic enough so that you will achieve them. In this way every small gaol is a mini success and building upon that success will give you the momentum to achieve your overall goal.

Your health deserves care!

Sunday, August 22, 2010