The 6 Things You Need To Be Doing To Maintain Your Weight Loss

Weight maintenance is actually way easier than weight loss. But this is only true if we change our default mode. If the steps we take to lose weight are dramatically different from our normal life, then, when we stop doing them, we will revert back to the things that caused us to gain the weight in the first place.

I gained and lost the same 15 pounds for 6 years. I had no problem losing weight; I just couldn’t keep it off. Most of us don’t just need a weight-loss plan; we need a weight maintenance plan. Weight loss is way more fun if you only have to do it once. So here’s the deal:

We need to change our normal.

If you don’t want to do keto forever, then it’s not the best strategy for fat loss. As soon as you reintroduce carbs, it’s going to be hard to maintain the results you got from cutting them. The same is true for intermittent fasting, paleo, or any other named diet. But the good news is that the things we need to do to maintain weight are the same things we do to lose weight (with one large exception).

If we take a reasonable approach to losing weight, then maintaining that weight loss becomes a breeze.

So we want to focus on the middle column above (in that order) as we’re working on our weight loss. If we’re nailing all of those things, we’re probably pretty close to a calorie deficit anyway. Then, here’s the best part: once you’ve locked in your weight loss routine (yes, by the time you do all this it will literally be routine for you), the adjustment to maintenance is just giving yourself more freedom.

Maintenance allows for more flexibility.

And flexibility is freedom. And freedom is fun. If you’re in a place where you’re looking to lose weight, here’s what changed it all for me and for every client I’ve had that’s seen sustainable success: focus on the stuff in the middle first. Change your normal. Then, when you lose the weight this time, you’ll never have to do it again.

I recorded an entire podcast series on the strategies that help us stick with the tactics in the middle column called The Building Blocks Of Fat Loss.