by Kathy Trower

Created on: November 05, 2009

Lifetime membership in Weight Watchers does not mean that you lost your weight, it is gone forever. Believe me, if you are not vigilant with your eating, lost pounds find your body again. How do you maintain your weight after you reached your goal? How do you keep it from coming back on most common mistake of members who lose their weight is the slow approach to their old eating habits. The first six months after a person becomes a lifetime member of Weight Watchers is the time that you are still primed to be conscientious in your food choices. After that first six months, your resolve becomes confident, and trouble sets in. You don't count points anymore. You don't practice the exercise routine that you lost with. You don't attend monthly weigh ins at the Weight Watchers meeting. You avoid the home scale, and start making excuses for your weight gains. These are the trouble signs.

First of all, don't go back to your old bad eating habits that you had before Weight Watchers.

Exercise. Keep up the walking and other routines that you had while losing weight.

Count points at least one day a week. Watch portion sizes and if you double them, double your points.

Remember your emotional eating habits. Don't let yourself be trapped by them again..

Follow the Maintenance Plan that Weight Watchers has worked up for you.

You don't have to weigh weekly, but you should gauge a weight gain on your favorite pair of slacks or something. Catch weight gains when they are small, and don't wait until they become 5 or 10 pounds. This will be easy if you attend the monthly weight in required for people who are lifetime members. These weigh ins are free if you stay within two pounds of your goal weight.

Start program when you feel that you are slipping, either on the scale or emotionally. Attend a meeting and sit with your peers. This will refresh your mind on the reason that you lost the weight and the reasons that you want to keep it off.

If you put your weight back on again, it will be harder to take off the second time. Why? First of all, because you lose your resolve the second time around. You think you know it all, and you get a guilty feeling about putting it back on again. You don't go to meetings again, because you feel that everyone is looking at you as a failure. You convince yourself that you did it once, you can do it again on your own.

Keeping weight off requires an attitude adjustment. It also calls for determination to keep that weight off. With the same help that you received on program, you have to keep meetings on a monthly basis. When you slip, those other Weight Watcher members are there to catch you.

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