Mental Fitness and Maintaining Weight Loss

Do you know what the four reasons are for failure to maintain weight loss? Yahoo Health had an article from entitled

The National Weight Registry reported information on 7000 successful people, who maintained a weight loss of 30 pounds or more for over a year. The successful maintainers of weight loss do the following:

1. Daily participate in an aerobic exercise for an hour or longer
2. Focused on watching calories
3. Keep food logs
4. Chose healthy and low-fat foods

I recommend that you read the Yahoo article regarding a far too common mindset that results in weight gain following significant loss of weight. We fail to continue the successful behaviors that resulted in weight loss once our goal is obtained. We rationalize and before long our mindset and behavior returns to our “heavy mindset” and we gain and maintain unwanted weight.

The philosophy behind physical and mental fitness is important to remember, if you want to maintain weight loss. In order to maintain physical or mental fitness, it is necessary to continue exercising once that goal is obtained or that gain is lost.

From a mental fitness perspective, it is important to motivate oneself to take care of oneself by maintaining activities that are necessary for achieving permanent weight loss. Think about setting a goal to maintain a healthy lifestyle supporting one’s desirable weight instead of a goal of just losing weight.

From a mental fitness perspective, it is important to prepare oneself for success as well as for defeat. It takes strong mental fitness to maintain goal directed activity, urgency and commitment once a goal has been achieved. Without mental fitness and a commitment to continue successful endeavors once we have reached the goal we never can become champions.