Susan lost 20 pounds in last three months, she was truly happy. She looked jovial and conceited of her achievement, compliments about her slimmer and younger looks made her feel special. Perhaps her bliss was short lived as just after few months she gained back 15 pounds. Can you guess what went wrong with Susan?

Well! You nailed the donkey, she didn't maintain her weight. When you loose weight over a period of time, your body begins reacting to your efforts and retort resulting in weight loss. After you realize desired results your body keeps in rhyme with that regime of diet and workout. You then tend to become sloppy towards your diet and sometimes even skip your workout, gradually these habits outperform your fitness schedule and as a consequence you gain back. "But I cannot diet or workout all my life."

The big question that arises here is how do you maintain your weight or rather I should say weight loss? You have to hear it -- the truth is loosing weight is lot easier than sustaining it. The fact is when you initiate with any program to loose those extra pounds you are stern and determined to reach your goal. Even after a month your persistence never let you on loose and you keep striving for that goal. But lenience overcomes this attitude when you get rid of desired flab and you relax. You get keen on being comfortable, you become lazy and start eating back.

This is where you need to put a halt! If you were acting on a diet don't cease it completely rather workout some alterations in that diet, so that your calorie count does not get disturbed. Like if you were taking a two whole wheat slices of bread with steamed veggies for your lunch and you want to add oil cooked stuff, do it with single bread so that it compensates the additional calories you consume in your lunch.

Don't go into relaxation completely with your walks and workouts. I have come across many people who walked 5-6 miles whilst loosing weight and later find even one mile a hard walk. Cut down your walk to three miles as your body does not need that much strain but you cannot shun your routine altogether. If you were working out six days at the gym, lower it to three or four days with just a mild shaping for all parts of your body. This will keep you active and enhance your body contouring as well.

Any weight loss program recommends lot of fluid intake as to keep the digestive system easy and light. People drink 15-18 glasses of water everyday, I have seen people sitting with exact measure and drink water like alcoholics till they are finished with the whole tumbler. Later they switch to six glasses in a day. Now when the body had become used to such cleansing, it would also respond and either you face water retention or your cleansing system suffers again resulting in weight gain. So please try and take at least half of what you consumed to keep your system in shape.

Guide your hands to better options. What does that mean? Watching your favorites soap, a bag of buttered popcorn is must, a drink or may be few marshmallows. Need to munch on something few of these won't hurt my weight? You are wrong my dear, this act would also work gradually and put you at the same point from where you started. So whenever you feel like munching keep low cal snacks in abundance and handy at your place. Opt for lemonade instead of coke; eat roasted rice flakes in place of marshmallows and certainly low calorie puffs leaving popcorn aside. You see it is not that difficult, you simply have to sort your habits.

You devil! You want to enjoy all the pizza at the party and dessert too, that's sinful.

This attitude is a setback to your program, so learn how to compensate it. Have you overeaten at a party yesterday night? Don't worry, relax! Put yourself on a clear soup diet or a liquid diet next day. This will cleanse your body and fat they simply can't stay in now.

If you have lost weight at a center it is advisable to take a maintenance program as well. If you have followed a diet get another one made about weight maintenance. Never wear the attitude that you have lost enough or you will start gaining. Bear in mind one rule to weight maintenance is "never over eat never again" the bottom line is your actual struggle starts now.