This week, we complete our special eight-week program designed to help you feel better while you lose pounds, inches and body fat. In this final week we will offer some tips on maintenance strategies.

WEEK EIGHT: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

GET FIT NUTRITION: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

Losing weight and getting fit is the first step, however, the real goal should be keeping it that way.
       Maintenance strategies:
        Write a letter of encouragement to yourself:
       List how you feel after making these changes, how it has improved your life, what specific changes really worked for you, what challenges you face in keeping it up and how you will meet them.
       keep this letter in a safe place and break it out whenever you need a reminder
Create a relapse plan:
       Don’t expect not to ever slip up. It is human to slip up. The key is to have a plan for when you do and try to keep the slip ups small.
       Give yourself a “thermostat” where your relapse plan kicks in — for example: when certain pants feel tight, or when you’ve gained five pounds. When that happens, start to keep a food and activity journal again and read the letter you wrote to yourself. If you do slip up, don’t dwell on it and feel guilty, just move on.

GET FIT FINAL EXERCISE ADVICE:
Obesity is an important contributing factor to the development of hypertension. This is why it is so important to stay fit and maintain an ideal body weight. Changes in diet, regular exercise and changes in lifestyle will often correct hypertension.

Brisk aerobic exercise leads to an increase in the level of high density lipoprotein HDL, or good cholesterol, which can lower your overall cholesterol reading.

 Both of these health risks, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, can lead to serious health problems. However, getting into a routine of aerobic exercise can reduce these risks.

Your improved self esteem, newly found confidence, reduced health risks and boundless energy is a great thing to see. However, this is just the beginning. We have given out some very simple tools to begin this program, and now it’s up to you to keep it up.

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