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Strategic
Weight Loss
Weight loss
can seem difficult but there is very simple. One of the
first things that you'll do when you decide to lose weight
is to set a goal weight.
For most, that goal will be their
'ideal weight', but for many, that 'ideal weight' may be
exactly the wrong weight for them to be aiming for.
Years of
dieting or being overweight have the physiological effect of
moving the body's concept of the 'ideal weight' from what is
truly considered ideal. The 'set point' is the weight at
which your body naturally feels most comfortable.
If you've been
overweight for a very long time, or if you've consistently
'yo-yoed', your body may respond to your initial weight loss
by lowering its metabolism because it believes that you are
starving to death. This slowing leads to discouraging
plateaus that often knock people off their diets entirely,
and lead to regaining all or part of the lost weight.
Instead of
aiming for an 'ideal weight' that calls for you to lose
weight steadily for months or even years, many experts
recommend aiming for shorter-term attainable goals. Since
the bulk of diet research shows that most dieters lose
weight steadily for about 12 weeks, then hit a plateau,
that's the number that they suggest you aim for. The
strategy that many have found works best for them is one of
alternating periods of weight loss and maintenance, each
lasting 8-12 weeks.
Choose a
realistic amount of weight that you can lose in 8-12 weeks.
Figuring that the most reasonable and healthiest weight loss
rate is 1-2 pounds per week, 30 pounds in three months is
not unreasonable. Diet until you reach that goal, or for 12
weeks, whichever comes first, and then switch to a
maintenance diet.
Why switch to
a maintenance diet at that point? In part, you're giving
yourself a 'breather', a break from more restrictive eating.
The other part, though, is that you're re-educating your
body and letting it establish a new 'set point'. Once you've
maintained your new weight for 8-12 weeks, set another
weight loss goal, and move back into weight loss mode. By
giving your body a break from 'starvation', you'll have
overcome its resistance to losing more weight, and be back
to dieting for 'the first two weeks' - the weeks that most
people lose weight more rapidly.
You'll also be
giving yourself a chance to 'practice' maintaining your new,
healthier weight. Researchers have found that more than half
of the dieters who take off significant amounts of weight do
not maintain that weight loss once they go 'off' their diet.
By practicing weight maintenance in stages, you'll be
proving to yourself that you CAN do it, and removing a
powerful negative psychological block.
This will work
with any long-term weight loss diet, no matter the focus.
You'll find it much easier to do if you choose a diet that
has concrete 'phases', like the South Beach or the Atkins,
since the weight loss and maintenance phases are clearly
laid out for you to follow. Regardless of the diet you
choose, though, by alternating between weight loss phases
and maintenance phases, you'll teach yourself and your body
how to maintain a healthy weight.
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