You went one more diet, and this time you really lost a lot of weight. You feel great, you look better and you are much healthier. Still, you can’t get rid of the fear the weight might come back. Like other times.

It doesn’t have to! There are very effective strategies how you can ensure that it won’t. Gaining weight back after a diet is the result of having gone on the wrong diet (one that never told you about weight management) and of mistakes people make over and over because of not understanding the causes of their weight problem and the principles of long-term weight loss. How could they if their diet program never taught them?

Here are three powerful strategies that will help you to hold on to your weight loss achievements:

Understand your vulnerability
Don’t go “back to normal”
Monitor your weight

Strategy #1: Understand your vulnerability

You need to understand that right after losing weight you are at a greater risk to gain weight again. You went through a difficult time with many restrictions. Losing weight, especially losing a lot of weight, requires commitment, sacrifices and a serious effort – no matter whether you follow a restrictive crash diet or a slower healthy-eating-approach.

Now that you are slim, it’s very tempting to jump back into indulgence and eating whatever you feel like. It’s like wanting to catch up on what you missed whilst dieting. When you are aware of this danger, you can avoid walking into this trap. Because you will be on your guard.

Understanding your vulnerability means to understand the causes of your weight problem. Unfortunately, most diets don’t pay attention to determining these fat-making habits. Why did you gain weight in the first place? Only if you know that, you can take precautions so that it won’t happen again. Read the full story