7 Strategies for Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Once you’ve made it to your goal weight, follow these 7 steps to keep the pounds off for good.

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By: Julie Upton, MS, RD, Photo: George Doyle/Stockbyte/Getty Images
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Limit Eating Out and Drinking Alcohol

Every meal eaten out ups your odds of gaining back pounds. Successful dieters tend to take control over what they eat, preparing most of their meals and snacks at home. They eat out or have take-out no more than three times a week. Putting the brakes on booze is also important because beer, wine and spirits are not only calorie-rich, ethanol stimulates your appetite, chips away at your resolve to eat healthy and heightens the desire for high-calorie pleasurable foods.
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