Challenging YourselfChapter 2, Lesson 1

Advanced Weight Loss

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Keep It Up to Keep it Off

Keeping your new eating and exercise habits up will help you control your weight and reduce your risk of chronic health conditions down the road. Often as people begin to feel better and gain self-confidence from the healthy changes they’ve made, they feel like they no longer need their new healthy habits. But it’s important to remember that muscles diminish over time if not exercised, and you can easily gain back the weight that was lost.

Set New Goals

After weight loss and adopting a healthier lifestyle, people can experience more self-esteem and a desire to try new things they couldn’t do or didn’t feel like trying before. Setting new goals is a great way to advance your progress even further. Plus, it can help with motivation and get you excited to stick to your goals. Maybe you’ve always wanted to run a 5k, or maybe you are interested in participating in a bike race or other fitness competition. Signing up for an activity can be a great motivator to step up your exercise, especially if it’s for a charity or on someone else’s behalf.

Reconstruct your goals

If you find you’re losing motivation to maintain your new healthy habits, it is a good idea to rebuild them. You’ll learn more in chapters 2 and 3 about specific ways you can restructure your nutrition and fitness goals.

Additionally, if you’ve reached a weight you feel comfortable with, but are interested in dropping few more pounds, it can be help to reassess your goal weight.

Finally, using weight-loss apps can help you keep track of your goals, stay on top of your progress and provide insight into how you can take your goals to the next level based on your personal progress and trends you may notice from tracking.

Next Steps:1. Read Lesson 2: The Far-Reach Effects of

a Little Bit of Weight Loss

2. Read Lesson 3: 7 Tips from Real People on How to Start—and Stick With—a Weight-Loss Plan

3. Take Chapter 2 Quiz

Keeping your new eating and exercise habits up will help you control your weight

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Take Your Goals to the Next LevelYou may have been on this weight loss journey for a while now and we applaud your efforts! Remember, the steps you take to lose the weight are the same steps that you need to maintain to keep the weight off, so the changes you make need to be sustainable over time. Changing your eating and exercise habits is a great accomplishment, but many people make the mistake of reverting back to old habits after getting to their goal weight. However, you need to keep it up to keep it off!