Weight Maintenance - Difference between Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance

Weight loss means losing weight - weight maintenance (or weight control) refers to the act of maintaining weight at a healthy level over the long-term.

Healthy Weight Maintenance

Weight maintenance means developing stable and healthy eating habits, together with regular exercise habits. Weight maintenance means developing a pattern of behavioral routines which can support these diet and exercise habits. Above all, maintaining a healthy weight means adopting new attitudes towards yourself, your weight and your attitude to food.
 

Weight Maintenance - Learn from Successful Weight Maintainers

The US National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) is a national database containing details of a large group of people who have been successful at long-term weight maintenance. To be included within the National Weight Control Registry you must have lost a minimum of 30 pounds of body weight and maintained this weight loss for at least 5 years. In fact, of the 2,000 registry members, the average weight loss is 60 pounds, maintained for 6 years.

Successful Weight Maintenance Strategies - NWCR

Weight control methods found to work by NWCR members include:

• Eating a regular breakfast.
• Regular (sometimes daily) monitoring of weight on weighing scales.
• Up to 60 minutes of daily exercise (burning on average 400 calories, per day).
• Most common weight control exercise is walking.
• Following a fat-reduced diet, (24 percent calories from fat) while eating healthy carbs.
• Controlling calorie-intake. Average calorie consumption is 1400 calories, per day.

Weight Maintenance Motivation

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