You've seen it happen a thousand times.
It's probably even happened to you, yourself. You get in the groove of eating healthy and exercising and after a few weeks, you see the pounds begin to drop.
The declining number on the scale and the extra room in your pants is encouragement enough to get you to keep pushing yourself to lose weight-and you do. But then one day, one ordinary day, when you're still doing the same thing you've been doing that has helped you lose weight, it just stops.
Suddenly, you cannot lose any more weight, despite how much you try. Some call this "plateau-ing." But whatever you call it, it can be discouraging if there were a few more pounds you wanted to lose.
For others, this is not the situation. Sometimes we lose just the right amount of weight, but we have trouble maintaining that weight. Which brings me to this blog post I found on another blog:
http://www.diet-blog.com/share/2009/07/please-help-to-go-from-losing-to-maintaining.php
This person, like many of us, is having a hard time maintaining their progress. I know that I have had a hard time maintaining, and even failed a couple times, after I dropped the weight.
You might even say this is the most challenging part of weight loss.
What do you do to maintain your weight once you've lost the amount you wanted? What works and what doesn't work?
posted @ Friday, July 24, 2009 10:03 AM