Maintaining Healthy Body Weight - How to avoid the vicious circle of weight loss and weight gain
If you have ever tried to lose weight you already know that maintaining optimal body weight is even a greater challenge that losing excess pounds. Regain of loss pounds after “inhumane diets” and sweating in the gym discouraged many people to continue trying to lose weight, while others became trapped in a circle of weight loss and weight gain. Why is maintaining healthy body weight such a problem?
The vast majority of people makes the same mistake when starting a weight loss program over an over again. They concentrate only on loss of excess pounds but when achieving healthy body weight many return to their old eating and exercise habits. To avoid the vicious circle of weight loss and weight gain and to maintain healthy body weight when achieving it you should ask yourself if you can follow the chosen weight loss program for a lifetime before starting with it.
Maintaining healthy body weight is much more than just following a diet plan and being physically active most days in the week. It is a lifelong process which requires permanent change of your eating and exercise habits. For that reason it is highly important your diet consists of food you like (not only of cabbage soup) and that you choose the type of physical activity you are likely to enjoy. You are also highly recommended to learn to stop emotional eating which can affect your weight loss efforts and maintenance of a healthy weight.