Our readers often tell us that their biggest battle isn’t weight loss, contrary to popular belief. They have noticed that losing weight isn’t even close to as difficult as keeping it off over the long term. It is always quite easy for lost weight to come back after returning to previous habits, whether those are food choices or exercise. This is particularly true if the diet plan you were on before slowed down your metabolism.

It’s true that dieters frequently report more weight gain than was lost, even during the best periods of their previous diet. In order to succeed in the long term with a weight management routine, learning to change our habits is essential to the process. For those who have  successfully lost a lot of weight and are able to keep it off, they are typically the ones who have adapted to a lifestyle that helps them to maintain a healthy weight. The secret of weight loss success is really this simple, but it’s also an excellent idea to look into the what methods have been used previously and achieved good success.  Success is not merely losing pounds up front, but keeping it off permanently.

As a result of this reality, we’ve organized a series of tips that will help people not only find these programs, but help them keep the weight they’ve lost off in the long-term.

Tip 1: Commitment and Passion

Researchers have clearly shown that those who lose weight and do so stably over the long term are far more likely to demonstrate passion and commitment to this process. Since it’s such hard work to lose weight, it’s no surprise that these qualities are required. If you attain a high level of passion about your overall health, it’s much more likely that you’ll achieve success. Carefully examine your motivations, which can be a great help as well. Many people are motivated by the health benefits which often enjoin with weight loss, while many others want to improve their physical appearance. Finding a proper motivation for weight loss isn’t enough to give up things that you enjoy, and the foods you are addicted to. Write down your reasons for overcoming these problems as a good reminder, and place it somewhere you will see it every single day.

Tip 2: Controlled Calorie and Fat Diet

A common habit for those that have successfully kept their weight loss off is to maintain a controlled calorie and fat diet.  In order to lose weight, it’s required to change your diet and stick to those changes. Portion sizes can be modified to control calories and fat, as can food choices (larger foods with fewer calories).  This can immediately offer an easy way to control calories eaten on a normal basis. By adding in more nutritious and lower calorie veggies and fruits to your diet will help as well. Obviously, it is quite important to avoid taking too much out of your diet also. Having an occasional small treat from time to time is good for success, as long as those treats are planned and carefully controlled to avoid sabotaging your long-term goals.

Tip 3: Have Breakfast Daily

Eating breakfast every day is an important part to a person’s weight loss and overall health. In numerous studies, people who eat breakfast regularly will lose more weight than their non-breakfast eating counterparts.  This helps them to improve their metabolism in the mornings and often this meal sets the tone for the rest of the day. When you start out with a nice healthy breakfast it helps you to continue to make healthy choices throughout the day, and avoid overeating at any meals. Also, if you eat breakfast, you can curb cravings later in the day.  Especially if the person selects a breakfast that also includes whole grains and healthy proteins that keep you feeling full for much longer.

Tip 4: Regular Exercise

Just because you diet doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed to work for you. If a person wants to lose weight and keep it off they almost always have to commit to an exercise regime. At the start, a simple 15 minute exercise being added to your daily routine can work wonders. Over the long term, it’s important to increase your daily exercises, range and health. Challenging your body is always a critical part of success and helps to increase  burning calories and improve health and fitness overall. For those who exercise for thirty to sixty minutes each day will lose weight and will also typically win the battle to maintain weight loss in the long-term. It’s important to exercise and maintain weight loss and also to find methods that are good and can be done continually.

Tip 5: Locate Supportive People

There have been many studies which have shown that people which have good support are much more likely to succeed in their weight loss. It’s important to not underestimate the importance of good support. Weight loss can be particularly difficult alone, but with a bit of moral support a person can do great things. With even superficial support from others, just someone you’re held accountable to, people are much more likely to reach their goals. Someone that is pushing you to move forward and improve is all that’s needed. A close family member or friend can offer something that few other things can, and will often be a huge help for weight loss. Many others make use of online supporters or perhaps groups of people who are all doing weight loss together. Finding a great support system that will help to keep you on track back you up as the person takes on this new journey to weight loss.

This is not a complete list, but is merely some of the better tips we’ve encountered in our travels and readings about weight loss success.  Keeping weight off in the long term is indeed a huge problem, but is definitely attainable.