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[quote=Anonymous]One of the biggest problem people who lose a lot of weight have is that they adopt techniques designed to lose weight, but they don't focus on sustainable changes.  Then when they reach a "goal weight" they change their behavior and put the weight back on.

The key to losing weight and keeping it off are to make changes to your lifestyle that are sustainable.  To do that, you need to make small changes that you can continue.  So, for example, like the people who say start by walking 20 min a day, that's something that you can continue.  As you become acclimated to the exercise, then you can increase the amount, again at a sustainable level.

To change your eating habits, you have to do the same.  Start with some basics, like eliminating some snacking and changing other snacking.  When I lose weight, one of the things that is easiest for me to cut out is late night snacking.  So, I set myself a limit, like 10:00pm or something like it and then I don't snack after that time.  Typically when I snack late, it is usually stress eating or similar and I don't need to eat and don't get cravings by skipping that.  You can also try switching one snack at a time.  So I switched chips to celery with ranch dressing.  Later I switched to celery with low cal Italian dressing.  I've found that small changes and small steps are ones that are sustainable.  Making large changes to my diet give me cravings and make me cheat or fall off the wagon.  Small changes and steps are more sustainable.

Good luck.[/quote]

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