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Four Overlooked Habits to Maintain Healthy Weight
Not surprisingly, it starts in your head
Raise your hand if you are part of the 95% of people who, after losing a significant amount of weight, eventually regain it.
There are a variety of reasons why this occurs. In my experience as someone who has lost, regained, and shed it again, as well as coaching others, I have found the biggest culprit is our mind.
The long-term answer to keeping off the pounds we worked diligently to shed is to keep the mindset that brought us to the weight-loss phase to start the process. It truly is not enough to lose weight for short-term reasons. Showing up at a class reunion, looking great in wedding photos are two of the dominant reasons why people want to lose weight. They are, however, not reasons sufficient to sustain the weight loss after the reunion or the wedding.
Those I have worked with who are part of that 5% who have kept the weight off are those whose reasons to do so were for the long haul: they wanted to regain the pilot’s license they let expire because they could not fit in the pilot seat of the airplane and they loved to fly; some wanted to be the “grandma who could get on the floor and play with the grandbabies”; some didn’t want to develop diabetes or chronic heart disease because they have seen loved ones suffer from these with…
