You've reached your goal weight. Weight maintenance is the homely sister of the much-hyped weight loss. The truth is maintaining a goal weight can be just as hard, if not harder, than dropping pounds.
Physical activity is key.
Another component to weight maintenance is responsible portion control and consuming 5 to 10 percent fewer calories from fat than the average American. Weighing on a regular basis, while not encouraged during weight loss, seems to be important to weight maintenance. More important than the scale, however, is attitude. Fletcher reports that most of her subjects had been on three to five types of diets before they successfully lost weight on their own. People have to really believe that the changes they are making are absolutely worth it, and they have to never want to go back.