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Weight Gain After Dieting
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Jill just exited a very successful diet plan. She lost a stunning fifty pounds over the course of four months - just sixteen weeks! But one week after her diet ended - she experienced a seven pound weight gain. What's with that? And how can Jill stop this crazy ride before she ends up fifty pounds down the Diet Road?
Fact is, many dieters achieve Diet Success whether the weight loss involved five pounds or 205 pounds or more. Losing weight is just one of the keys to achieving recommended weight and unfortunately, it's not the biggest obstacle in maintaining recommended weight. The biggest obstacle is Weight Maintenance itself - the time frame following the end of a diet or weight loss plan.
While many dieters know how to lose the weight, they don't know how to keep off the weight. Now this is going to hurt, as the truth generally does.....but in order to keep off the weight permanently, it means having to follow a daily diet for the rest of one's life. It doesn't mean that the individual can't ever enjoy hot bread out of the oven with butter OR cheesecake loaded with strawberries OR delicious doughnuts. It does mean that in order to maintain recommended weight, the individual must keep their daily calorie intake within a certain framework of calories. Here's how weight gain occurs after dieting:
- When daily caloric intake exceeds the amount of daily calories used by the body they become stored in the fat cells as a source for future energy. Generally for most individuals, the 'future energy' doesn't get burned until the individual goes on a reduced-calorie diet.
- It's difficult for a post-dieter to gauge the amount of calories their body requires without exceeding their recommended caloric needs. This is why Diet Bites recommends the 'no diet plan'. Our permanent weight loss steps include: determine recommended weight, consume the number of calories required to support recommended weight, base daily diet on the Official Food Pyramid Food Groups & recommended servings, get adequate activity, and get adequate rest. Once the unwanted weight is gone, there is no hassle of juggling calories or daily food menus.
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- Once the weight loss plan has been completed, many dieters feel a great sense of freedom. Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty or more pounds down the road they realize they were a bit too free with calories in their post-diet daily diet.
- Some dieters may think like this, "I lost all the weight before and I can lose it again. I'm going to just enjoy myself until I reach my highest weight. Then I'll lose the weight again." The problem with this type of thinking is that the post dieter typically gains more weight than their former 'highest weight' making weight loss even more difficult and more challenging.
It's unfortunate that we can't see inside of our body to view all the rotten stuff that weight gain does to our organs, our veins - to our overall level of health. If we could do such, we just might think twice about regaining lost weight - and more about making our bodies the healthiest they can be.
In Diet Summary - If you're experiencing weight gain after dieting then you must act quickly so that you don't regain all the lost weight - and possibly additional weight gain. Get back on track, take charge of the calories you insert into your daily diet. Watch beverages; three sodas per day at 140+ calories each equal upwards to 500 calories. You can each a very nice meal for that amount of calories. Watch snack time, opting for fruit, lean proteins, and low fat dairy options over candy bars and high-carb no-nothings like doughnuts, cookies, pastries and cupcakes.
In addition, get active! Count your steps using an inexpensive pedometer. Make sure you take at least 2,000 steps per day minimal. Balance your activity with rest and relaxation. Read a good book, play on the computer, watch a good movie - but leave the snacks behind and concentrate on that book or that movie or what you're doing on your computer.
Finally, congratulations to you for losing weight. Your body will be healthier for such going forward if you work hard to keep weight gain away. Diet Bites will continue to motivate you and assist all that we can.
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