Weight Loss Management: 5 Surprising Ways to Keep Weight Off

After all the hunger pains and aerobics classes you endured to lose weight, the last thing you want to do is put the weight back on. But what's the secret to weight loss management, how can you avoid gaining the weight back? Here are five highly effective and surprising ways to keep weight off.

Weigh Every Day

During the course of your weight loss, you were probably admonished frequently to not weigh yourself more than once a week. That was good advice then, but after the weight is gone and it's time to maintain the weight loss, daily weighing is needed. A daily weigh-in is an early warning system; if the scales are up a pound, eat lighter that day so you can maintain the weight loss.

Eat More Calcium

Increasing calcium consumption helps dieters loss weight quicker and also helps maintain weight that has been lost. Eating more calcium inhibits the body's production of the hormone calcitrol and fat. Aim for four servings of low fat calcium rich foods per day to aid in weight loss management.

Eat Less Fat

Eat less fat than you've been told you could eat. Standard advice is to keep fat intake to less than 30 percent of the total daily calories after weight loss goal has been achieved. Shaving a little more fat off the daily diet, back to les than 25 percent of the daily calories, helps maintain weight loss.

Don't Skip Breakfast

The most important meal of the day is the meal most often skipped in an attempt to lose or maintain weight. It's a ploy that backfires on the dieter and usually causes the dieter to consume more calories later on in the day. Eating a healthy breakfast staves off hunger and helps you consume fewer overall calories. A healthy, weight maintaining breakfast will contain a good balance of protein, fat, complex carbohydrates and fruit.

Increase Exercise Time

Once the weight loss goal has been reached, many dieters think their days of exercising is behind them. Wrong. That's the time to increase exercise time for weight loss management. Aim for 60 to 90 minutes of moderate exercise per day. The good news to increased exercise time is that the exercise does not have to bee done all at once. Six ten-minute walks each day is just as effective as one hour-long walk when it comes to maintaining weight loss.