Weight Maintenance Diet

A weight maintenance diet is the healthy eating food plan you use once you've exercised and dieted down (or up) to your "ideal" weight, as worked out by a physician, not by you.

Most of us will be in the category where we need to lose some weight, but there are people out there who are too skinny and they need to put on a few pounds to be healthy, too.

The latest research shows that people with fat families and friends tend strongly to be fat themselves, just as people from skinny families tend to be very thin. They haven't quite worked out how much of this obesity is genetic, and how much comes from the way we all need to fit in with the people we love or look up to.

When you have reached your ideal weight through diet and exercise, you then have to try to stop losing any more weight. Then, at the same time, you have to keep yourself from piling the pounds back on again.That's what happens to most people, once their diet is over.

The diet is never over. Once the weight has come off, you need to switch to a balanced nutrition food plan. You should do this for the rest of your life.

Your ongoing food plan for continuing weight control needs to be a well-balanced and healthy diet. What’s more, it has to slot in well with your lifestyle. If it doesn’t fit your lifestyle today, you need to bend your lifestyle to fit the food plan - or you’ll just get fat all over again.

This means that you can only eat bigger portions if you exercise a great deal, or if you do heavy manual labor or sport each and every working day.

The rest of us just need to learn to be happy with a more moderate plateful at every meal. We also have to cut out the bad foods like desserts and ice creams, not just because they are full of calories with little goodness. It's because they induce us to eat more than we should of other things as well.

It's a vicious circle, and we do best when we can avoid it.

Now, let's look at well-balanced meals, and what makes them so.