Sarahs Weightloss Blog

Hi Everyone!

You know what they say that maintaining your weight is sometimes harder than losing it? Well, they’re not wrong!  I feel like I’m trying to balancing on a really small point, sometimes my balance shifts and its easy to fall off, but I’m trying desperately to keep my balance.  Here are some tips I have found have helped me with maintaining my weight:

1. Be Realistic! How many celebs do we hear have managed to go down to a (UK) size 8 or 4 (US size 0), who 6 months later are even larger than when they started? A LOT is the answer. Why? Because they haven’t found a weight they can maintain. As soon as they are off the fad diet and stressful exercise regime then completely lose their balance and fall straight back into their old habits and their old trousers.  You need to get down to a size were you can maintain your eating plan and exercise, even when you encounter stress or obstacles in your personal or work life.  So rule 1 – be realistic with you eating, exercise and weightloss goals.  The more realistic these are, the more in control you will be, and the less likely you will lose your balance and fall off the wagon.

2. Don’t Panic! Weight fluctuates.  You won’t be able to stay exactly the same weight, all the time.  You need to choose a weight to try and not go over, but you will end up hovering around this weight.  For example I have been trying to stay around 68.5kgs.  I have fluctuated between 67kgs and 71 kgs.  As time has gone on, I am staying closer to 67-68.5kgs, so I’m getting better.  The trick is to nip any gain in the bud.  If you rise to 1kg about your target, be stricter with eating and exercise for the next week to bring it back down to target.  It’s easier to do this and stay in control, than put it all back on and have the lose the whole lot again. Just don’t be disheartened and give up if you put on a few pounds in the first week of your maintenance program.  

3. ‘I’m in Control’: Keep weighing and measuring.  Check your calories against exercise.  As time goes on, you won’t have to do this as much.  Now I check my calories against exercise a few times a week to make sure I am not eating too little or too much, but I always weigh and measure weekly.  I find this helps me be in control and keep an eye on my weight, without being too strict now I’m off the stricter diet, which is more convenient for me to keep up.

4. Common Sense:  The idea isn’t to follow a set of rules for a time and then ditch those rules and revert back to old ways as soon as you’re done.  The idea is to make lasting changes and lasting changes take time.  Even when you decide to maintain rather than lose, you must know that your journey isn’t over.  You learnt what to do to lose weight, now you must learn what to do to maintain it.  Eventually you will train yourself about the amount and types of foods you can and can’t eat and how active you must stay in order to keep to your chosen weight.  This takes time – be patient.

Hope this helps all you fellow losers out there

Good Luck!

Till next time