Dubai, UAE, December 18, 2018:  1. What are the best recommendations to maintain your ideal weight after losing the extra pounds?

 

Maintaining an ideal weight is not easy, yet it is not as hard as it seems. It is important to keep an ideal weight because it reflects an overall healthy body and protects you against diseases on the long term. The easiest way to maintain an ideal weight is to balance the calories we consume with our workout. Balancing calories means following a healthy diet that contains all the food groups, making sure it is colored and varied to avoid losing interest, and also giving your body all the important nutritional elements, such as vitamins and minerals. Below are some tips to help us stay in shape after losing weight. 

2. What is the average amount of weight loss per week?

 

The average amount of weight loss per week is ½ -1 KG. Losing too much weight too fast puts us at risk of gaining it back or even putting more weight than we had before. 

 

3. What mistakes do we usually make after following a particular diet and losing weight?

 

Most people who have completed a particular diet and reached their desired weight, start changing their lifestyle and reverting to their bad eating habits. They start eating large quantities of food, especially desserts and fried food, and their preference goes back towards unhealthy foods, skipping breakfasts, eating fatty meals at night before going to bed, and becoming too lazy to do any exercise. To avoid such a set back the diet to be followed should result in permanent behavioral change in eating habits and lifestyle choices. To do so make sure to follow a healthy balanced diet that keeps you feeling full and satiated while providing a variety of options of all food groups. 

 

4. How many meals should we eat a day?

 

Organizing your daily meals is very important for maintaining an ideal weight after reaching your target. It is recommended that you eat controlled quantities in all the 3 main meals. Skipping one meal will make you feel more starved and may cause you to eat a larger portion in the next meal. Light snacks (2-3 snacks) can be taken between the main meals every day. 

 

5. Is eating bread after a diet a major reason for gaining weight?

 

Certainly not. Our bodies need a balanced diet that contains all the food groups, with varied and colored options of these food groups. What causes us to gain weight is eating large quantities and not varying our foods or not cooking our meals in a healthy way. We can eat carbs; it is better to opt for whole grains, with controlled quantities. 

 

6. What happens if you go back to eating desserts after giving them up for a long time? Is this going to make us gain weight? 

Among the bad eating habits commonly developed, especially after following a weight-loss diet for some time, is eating large amounts of food, cakes, and desserts after skipping them for a long period of time, which causes a severe indigestion. Therefore, for our own safety, we should exit our diet gradually. 

 

7. What are the best five snacks that we can eat between main meals? What is the allowed quantity of chocolate a day?

 

Eating some snacks between meals can prevent you from overeating in the next meal. Therefore, you should make sure you eat some snacks during the day. The healthy snacks should be small meals, containing the nutritional elements that may be lacking in the rest of the meals. Examples of snacks are fresh or dried fruits, vegetable slices, such as carrots or cucumbers, raw nuts (unsalted) or milk (low-fat), and some low fat dairy products or a dark chocolate (30 grams) which is the amount allowed per person per day. Always remember that even if your options are healthy, do not take excess quantities of them.

 

8. Which types of desserts contain the highest calories?

 

The highest calorie desserts include those containing high amounts of fats, sugar and cream, such as fried pastries, sweets or cake covered with cream, sweets and desserts made or covered with syrup, among others. 

 

9. What habits should we follow at dining table in order to have control over the food quantity we eat?

 

You can control the amount of food you eat daily by following some tips, such as:

10. What are the steps we should take through the holiday season to maintain our weight?

 

The holiday season is approaching, bringing with it all sorts of delicious food and beverage. We can avoid gaining weight in the holiday season by adopting healthy eating habits, such as the following: