How do you maintain lost weight?

People find it very difficult to lose weight and if they even lose it, maintaining the lost weight is a very big struggle. To a large extent, most people are not willing to lose weight the right way which also ensures the sustainability of the weight lost.
Weight, if lost must be kept down for the rest of your life. This is a true measure of how well you are doing. If lost right, weight can be kept down forever. Also if lost slowly and patiently weight can be kept down forever.

There are certain diseases that losing weight helps sufferers in managing them. If this is the case with you, there is the need to keep your weight down. Allowing the lost weight to come back again will only make you suffer some more from those diseases.

There is mad rush for products such as weight loss pills and fat-less mixtures. People also want to use surgery and other procedures that help to remove fat from the body or fat absorption.

The use of these procedures may help partially in some weight loss. When weight is lost this way, it is quickly gained back again after a short while. The reason is that, there is no measure put in place to avert weight gain. The fat is just removed and your lifestyle continues.

All should note that there is nothing in food that will make you lose weight. In other words, there is no ingredient in food that will burn your body fat. Food contributes to growth of the human body.

For most adults growing means putting on weight since they will not increase in height again.  The best way to tackle weight loss issues is to reduce the amount of energy/calories consumed. This will help prevent the body from gaining weight.

The next step is by exercising to lose weight. When you exercise, fat stored in the body is used for energy. That is how the fat stored diminishes and this reflects as weight being lost.

It takes quite some time to reach weight targets if you choose this right means of weight loss. This method however comes with lots of advantages which ultimately helps the one losing the weight to maintain the lost weight.

Key among the advantages is that, there is a massive paradigm shift in lifestyle towards healthy choices that help you lose the weight.

By the time you reach your target weight by repeating the right steps, you would be so used to them and will not go back to the old unhealthy habits again. That is the best way to maintain the weight, once lost.

There is the need to stick to the whole regime or better still get a modified regime discussed with your dietician.

Your exercise regime must be a continuous thing. Once you stop exercising, there is the tendency of gaining weight again. For those who lose weight by exercising, maintaining the lost weight becomes easy.

Remember, laziness gives you no gain when it comes to weight loss. Get serious, get busy and lose weight the right way to prevent diseases like stroke, heart attack, and diabetes.

You only succeed in weight loss when the lost weight does not return again. Do all you can to prevent weight gain. Eat right, exercise right and you will surely succeed.

By Wise Chukwudi Letsa/The Mirror/Ghana

The writer of this article is a dietician at The Trust Hospital, Osu-Accra (Tel: 0302761974). He is also the Author of “Your Diet & Your Health Magazine”-This magazine teaches on how to eat well to prevent/manage disease/conditions. Contact us for the current issue, Issue 6. Tel: 0244090262, Email: [email protected], Facebook: