Healthy Weight Loss Tips For Women: 5 Ways To Staying Slim
By Katie Jay

So congratulations! You’ve lost some weight! Now, how do you
keep it off?

When you’ve spent weeks or even months striving and
sacrificing, you don’t want to have your spirits sink as you see
the scale start to go up. For most of us, regardless of our
weight loss method, weight regain is a real possibility. But is
it inevitable?

Follow these five sure tricks, and your scale will stay put:

If you gain a pound, lose it! People who are successful at
maintaining a weight loss weigh themselves at least twice a
week. Pick regular times of day, and regular days of the week,
to weigh and keep a chart. If you find you’re up a pound or two,
follow a healthy and structured food plan until the extra weight
comes off again.

Have planned snacks instead of grazing. To combat rampant,
spontaneous snacking, plan a couple of balanced snacks every day
that you can measure out and enjoy. Be sure to include some
protein and complex carbohydrates in your snack. If you feed
yourself a bit more frequently, you will be less likely to graze
mindlessly.

Balance your treats with healthy choices. You can have an
occasional treat, but you can also have an occasional healthy
choice. Keep the treat small so that you don’t get a big sugar
or unrefined carb “rush.” And if you must eat sugar or an
unrefined carb, eat a little protein with it so that your blood
sugar doesn’t crash and cause cravings for more of the same.

Admit your trigger foods and avoid them. All you have to do is
look at certain foods and you know you’ll eat them. Don’t keep
any snack foods in plain site around your house. Put them away.
If you find yourself going to the cupboard or refrigerator to
peruse the snack items, you’ll need to keep the trigger foods
out of your house altogether.

Experiment and use the tools that work for you. Many dieters
hate the act of writing down what they eat. Some dislike
exercise. Others abhor weighing and measuring their food. Still
others will not give up sugar and unrefined carbs. You need to
be honest with yourself, though. These tools are proven to work.
So, experiment with all the tools available to you and use the
ones that work.

Weight regain is not inevitable, but you need to take action to
avoid it. Apply these solutions to your life and you will find
weight maintenance to be simple and satisfying.

About the Author: Katie Jay is the director of the National
Association for Weight Loss Surgery; a certified life coach, and
author of the courageous book, "Dying to Change: My Really Heavy
Life Story, How Weight Loss Surgery Gave Me Hope for Living."
For more information on the National Association for Weight Loss
Surgery, see http://www.nawls.com

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