So if daily spin classes aren't your thing, how about long morning walks? Or if you just can't quit dessert, can you learn to be satisfied with a small piece of dark chocolate as a post-dinner treat? The goal, says Freedhoff, is to focus on lifestyle changes you enjoy and want to live with.
In other words, instead of starving yourself or eating nothing but baby food or grapefruit juice (both, alas, are actual fad diets), make changes that you actually enjoy and want to stick with over the long haul.
Keeping weight off long-term means liking the lifestyle that helped you lose the weight in the first place. Yoni Freedhoff, an obesity medicine clinician and an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa in Canada. "We do try this all-or-nothing approach, where all or nothing, you know, almost always brings you back to nothing," says Dr. Research suggests that people tend to rebound after being on a really strict diet - even if that diet is more balanced than an all-cabbage approach. "It's hard to be restrictive for a very long time," says Gary Bennett, a psychology professor and obesity researcher at Duke University. And sometimes they end up heavier than they started. And then slowly, they start to regain some or all of the weight they lost. Basically, people lose weight for the first four to six months, and then they hit a plateau. And if you've ever gone on a diet, you've probably experienced it. There's a typical pattern to weight loss. Here are some tips on approaching weight loss in a different way - a saner way - that might help you achieve and maintain a healthier lifestyle while being a little kinder to yourself. Which brings me to this: The way many of us think about weight loss is totally counterproductive. After a while, I gave up, and the weight I'd lost came back. I lost some weight, but eating this cabbage soup just drove me nuts. And after all that, I didn't reach my goal weight. Twice a week, I would just eat cabbage soup all day long - breakfast, lunch and dinner. For more, sign up for the newsletter.Ībout 10 years ago, I wanted to lose some weight. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top of the page or subscribe. This story is adapted from an episode of Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together.
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