In this Guide, you considered ways to maintain your healthy lifestyle changes.

Here are some key points:
  1. Weight plateaus can be challenging. Recognizing plateaus, how they make you feel, and knowing strategies to get past them can be helpful.
  2. Recognize all of the self-management efforts you made in your eating and physical activity to get to where you are now.
  3. Keeping up with your self-management efforts can help you maintain your weight loss and long-term health.
  4. Having a plan for maintaining your weight can be helpful. Also, having a clear trigger for when to seek additional help is a good thing to do. For example, you may want to have a plan to call your MOVE! team if you regain more than five pounds.
  5. You have worked hard to improve your health. You are worth it, and it is worth the effort to maintain your health!
  6. Talk with your MOVE! Team or Primary Care Provider about how you would like to follow up with your weight management efforts.
  7. Be sure to share your weight management success stories for posting on the MOVE! Web site.