Maintain Weight Loss and Stay Healthy

So you’ve lost a lot of weight and you have reached your goal, but you seem to have done this countless times before in your life- only to fall of the wagon a little while later. How do you ensure that you stay on track and maintain weight loss after a few months? With some simple steps and a lot of self-discipline, you can keep the weight off- your shoulders and your waistline…

Take Charge

Planning and prioritizing is an important as any exercise. You have to remember what to eat every day, how to eat, and when to have it regardless of how stressed you become or the events that happen in your life. This about changing your lifestyle and you need to remind yourself constantly that you are in it for the long term if you want to maintain weight loss.

Keep Your Activity Levels Up

Once your fitness has improved and you have increased your lean muscle mass you need to ensure that you keep your routine vast and varied. This means mixing it up so that your body doesn’t hit a plateau. The body wants to maintain homeostatis- a constant level- and will try to meet the challenges you throw at it. Eventually it will start wanting to maintain your weight for you. You need to keep it guessing and employ some ‘surprise’ tactics if you want to maintain weight loss.

Experts agree that a good mix of strength training and cardio is the best way to maintain a healthy weight. If you are training with a specific goal in mind or suffer from chronic stress you could benefit from something meditative like yoga to keep you balanced. Never do the same workout for longer than two days in a row, and try to give yourself a rest day every week to allow your body time to recover and rest.

If you are finding yourself pressed for time, think about increasing the intensity of your workout to burn more calories in less time. If getting time to yourself is a problem think about practical ways to stay fit, like playing social ball games with the kids. If motivation is what’s keeping you back, pull your spouse into it, or get a friend to join you to help maintain weight loss and fitness.

Get Technical

Be conscious of the amount of calories you are consuming. The only scientific way to lose weight is to use more calories and energy than you are consuming. Stay disciplined, especially when you are going through stressful patches or eating for emotional gratification. A handy way to keep on top of this is to maintain a food journal where you write down every snack, meal and titbit you swallow.

Take Your Supplements

Supplementing with alkalizing supplements like barley grass, wheatgrass extract or Spirulina will help with your alkalinity and provide you with valuable anti-oxidants. Keeping your body in an alkaline state will make it less susceptible to illness and infection and help you to manage sugar cravings like a pro.

Yeast thrives in an acidic environment and can cause sugar and carbohydrate cravings so make sure you keep your pH balanced or slightly alkaline.

Get Your Juice

If you cannot keep up with your daily fruit and vegetable needs then invest in a decent juicer and drink your valuable nutrients. Juicing allows for quick and easy absorption of minerals and vitamins and allows you to get more portions in without all the chewing! It will also help you to control cravings assist with your pH to maintain weight loss.