In our modern world, maintaining the right weight is harder than ever. Huge portion sizes and constant opportunities for snacking can make healthy weight loss into a real struggle. Keeping your weight under control not only makes you look and feel better, but it has a major impact on your health. Staying at a healthy weight not only appeals to your vanity but it decreases your chances of developing some serious health problems like heart disease or diabetes.

Here’s 3 secrets you may not know about losing weight:

1. Losing weight is easy compared to keeping it off. Everybody knows somebody who lost a lot of weight, looked great for about a month and then the next time you saw them, they were fat again. In dieting, the losing phase and the maintenance phase are two completely different things. It doesn’t really matter the name of the diet you go on in the losing phase. If you get the weight off in a healthy, controlled manner, good for you. What really matters is what you do afterward. Changing your lifestyle to include exercise and switching to a moderate diet of mostly fruits and vegetables is the key.

2. Stress is a major cause of over-eating. When you feel the urge to eat, stop, take a deep breath and focus on relaxing until the urge goes away. Do some soul searching and ask yourself if you’re really hungry or are you just searching for a source of reassurance.

3. Even though it adds up to the same number of calories, eating 6 300 calorie meals is better for you than 3 900 calorie meals. When you eat your body takes what it needs at the moment for energy and stores the rest as fat. If you stop eating earlier you can avoid the fat storage phase. Plus, it’s a good exercise in self control.

Gaining all that weight didn’t happen in a short time so it’s unrealistic to think you can get rid of it in a short time either. There is no more reliable way to lose weight than by portion control and exercise. Stick with it and you’ll succeed. Remember, once you lose the weight the battle is just beginning. Stay with your new healthy lifestyle and you’ll keep the weight off too.

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