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Around the world, millions of people start diets every year. Many people start diets a few times a year, and for some people it may seem as if they are constantly on a diet or enduring an endless cycle of starting a diet and falling of the band wagon. The majority of people who start a diet cannot maintain it for the long term, meaning that even if they reach their goal weight, they are likely to gain the weight back, often with a little extra when they stop the diet and go back to their original eating habits.

This may sound like a lifelong prison sentence of tasteless, uninspiring food and deprivation, but statistics show that most people who lose weight on a diet regain it when they stop. The reason for this is that their diet is simply too restrictive to be maintained. Many fad diets eliminate food groups such as carbs or fat or only allow you to eat specific foods at certain times of the day. This may well help you to reach your goal weight, but you cannot go all your life drinking only meal replacement shakes or eating only high protein, low fat salads. Its simply not sustainable and can completely destroy your social life. Nobody wants to go out for a meal with someone who only picks at a green salad throughout the night.

What is the answer to this? Avoid diets that are unsustainable and do not fit in with your everyday life and instead focus on small, healthy, long-term changes to your diet. Your weight loss may not be fast, but if you persevere you will be able to maintain a healthy weight for life, rather than being back at square one and making New Years resolutions to lose weight all over again the next year.

Many popular diets involve a maintenance phase that is designed to help you maintain your weight loss once you have reached your goal weight. This is usually a more relaxed version of the original diet, with a greater number of foods allowed. The Dukkan Diet for example, ends in a stabilization phase which states you can eat pretty much anything you want as long as one day a week you return to the original diet plan of only lean protein. Whilst these maintenance phases may assist with keeping weight off in the longer term, it still means that you are tied to an eating plan or regime which you are expected to follow for the rest of your life. If the diet is one which fits your eating patterns and is easy to follow and varied, this may be fine, however if it relies on expensive supplements, or eliminating food groups this is still a lot to take on.

There are numerous reasons why people stop dieting. If you do choose to follow a diet that is not sustainable in the long term, it is essential that when you stop the diet for whatever reason, you do not go back to your original habits. You need to adopt a new healthy lifestyle to keep that weight off.

When a person reaches their goal weight, they often stop their diet. Unfortunately many people dont continue with a healthy food intake, but instead celebrate the end of their restrictive diet by eating all the things they have deprived themselves of for the last few months.

This is likely to lead to regain of the lost weight, but also add extra kilos to your frame. As you have less body mass than you had before your diet, your calorie requirements for weight maintenance will have decreased. Therefore if you start to eat the same as you were before your diet, you will quickly gain back the weight and then some.

The important thing to remember when you reach your target weight is that although you cannot stop your diet you can relax it and add in more of the foods you enjoy or have been avoiding, just dont go overboard.

In the first few weeks of a weight loss diet the drop in pounds is usually satisfyingly obvious with each weigh in. This pattern is not sustainable however, and as you continue on your diet, your weight loss is likely to drop off, resulting in a weight plateau. This can be very disheartening and can cause many people to give up on their diet under the belief that it just isnt working anymore, so whats the point.

A plateau will often occur because your new less voluminous body requires less and less calories to maintain weight as your lose weight. Therefore to keep up steady weight loss, you may need to reduce calories further as you lose weight or increase your exercise to burn more. Exercise is the ideal option as this will also increase your muscle mass, leading to a faster metabolic rate and more calories being burnt when the body is at rest.

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