Crash dieters beware – you will most likely gain all that weight back, and then some! Most people will actually not only regain their lost weight, but add on a few pounds just for good measure, within 6 months of reaching their goal weight. Learn why people gain all that weight back they worked so hard to lose, and how you can realistically lose weight and keep it off for good.
If you really think about it, the whole thing makes sense. If you moderately lose weight, then you are more likely to keep it off. Keep your weight off by choosing long-term daily weight-reduction goals. If you walk 30 minutes every single day, you’re more likely to keep off the weight than if you run an hour a day. Why? You’ll burn out of running once you hit your goal weight, but walking? It’s a cinch to do, and you’ll likely keep it up. Same goes for the diet- choose cabbage soup for life and you’ll be happy to give it up once you hit your weight loss goal, give up soda and you’ll lose weight and likely never go back to soda again. It’s all about choosing weight loss goals you can stick with, not crazy diet schemes that you ditch once you can fit into your skinny jeans. No wonder people can only stick with it for about 6 months! Impossible goals to maintain!
Also, the more quickly you lose weight, the more quickly you’ll gain all that poundage back, and then some. Your metabolism doesn’t get a chance to boost itself up to a higher burnage when you crash diet, so basically you’re losing weight by starving your body so it has no choice but to use its fat storage. This puts your metabolism on a vacation break, which means as soon as you can fit into that little black dress and begin eating real food again, your sluggish metabolism will take its time burning energy, and will more likely than not put most of that food back into storage (which means fat) in your body to replace what you starved off. Your better bet is to just lose weight slowly so your metabolism can get used to burning off fewer calories and gradually burn off your excess fat. You won’t gain all your weight back this way. Plus, you train yourself to eat less, and your body trains itself to need fewer calories, but only when you take it slow.
How to lose weight is easy- you eat less, you exercise more. How to keep it off for good is way more difficult. Make your goal easy. Say you switch to only water to drink daily and you add in 15 minutes of exercise a day. So long as you are cutting out calories from your diet via adding exercise or eating less, you are going to lose weight. Make it a lifestyle and you are going to keep that weight off. Plain and simple. It can be as easy as taking the stairs rather than the elevator (10 steps equals 1 burned calorie). One good choice leads to possibly more, and you will lose weight and keep it off over time.
See also: How to Cut 500-1000 Calories Out of Your Day Without Dieting
How to Walk in Place for Exercise
10,000 Steps a Day: The Workout Breakdown
Source:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-loss/AN01619