Life Changes are the Key to Weight-Loss Success

If you are reading this, likely you’ve been here. You have embarked on a weight loss program, thinking, this time I will get it done. This time I will keep the pounds off. Then bam! You bounce back and then some. Yo-Yo dieting is well known and happens to most people who embark on a weight loss journey. There are multiple reasons. They include a slowed-down metabolism and hormones that fight you. Why? Your body thinks we are in lean times. This is one reason why hunger increases.

This time around I maintained my weight loss off for close to 20 months. Among the people who keep statistics, this is considered a success. I would love to lose another 20 pounds, but the reality is that this weight loss may be it for me. And I am ok. I lost over fifty pounds. Keeping it off is work. I will not lie, nor tell you that it’s over.

So, I would like to share some of my weight loss hard-learned lessons, which incidentally are supported by research. First, you are fighting a set point. This isn’t a hard thing to understand, but in time it will adjust itself, I may be in fact, suffering from this and in a few years, this plateau may break as well.

If you ask me, set-point theory is the reason why so many people fail on long-term weight-loss goals. If more people understood that stagnation is an expected and natural part of the…