Losing Weight and Keeping it Lost

For some people the task of losing weight can be very difficult and once achieved they want it to stay lost. Unfortunately, losing weight and then gaining it back again can become a cycle in many people's lives. You can avoid, or break this cycle, with some simple techniques and observances.

It is often said that losing the weight is the easy part and that keeping it off is actually the hard part. There are four common factors among those that have successfully lost weight and kept it off. They maintain a low-calorie and low fat diet, they weigh themselves frequently and monitor their weight, they stay physically active, and they eat breakfast.

The act of eating a breakfast is often contradictory to the mindset of the person just setting out on the journey of losing weight. Typically the new dieter will wake up in the morning, say to themselves that this is the day they are going to start losing weight and go about their day eating no breakfast and a light lunch.

At the end of they day this behavior will lead them to having to eat a very heavy nighttime meal. The calories of this meal will not be able to be burned off prior to going to bed and they will wind up residing in the body's fat cells. Instead of doing something positive for their losing weight effort, they have set it another day back.

By eating a good breakfast meal you will be filling your hunger early in the day and will be able to burn the calories of that meal throughout the day. Those who have been successful in retaining their weight loss have managed to change their eating habits to reflect this.

Whether you are just now thinking about losing weight or are currently in the process, keep in your mind that the effort is worth. The long-term health benefits alone will make the effort a very worthwhile one, but add on that life will be much happier and positively active and it becomes even more tantalizing to lose weight.

After you have lost the weight you set out to lose, it is important to not fall back into the eating and physical habits you had before you began losing weight. Keep the practice of monitoring your calorie intake and being physically active and you will go a long way to keeping the weight you lost, lost.