7 Strategies for Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Losing weight isn’t simple but it’s relatively straightforward: eat fewer calories than you burn off and the scale heads south. Keeping those lost pounds off, however, is more challenging than losing them, and why just one in five successful dieters are able to maintain weight loss long-term. Research is now focused on strategies that work for weight maintenance. Based on results of the largest study conducted of successful dieters, the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) and other studies, losing weight and keeping it off require very different strategies. Based on the most recent evidence, here are the 7 habits researchers have found are consistently linked to maintaining substantial weight loss for up to 10 years.