Maintenance
Losing weight took persistence and now you’ve reached your goal! Congratulations!
Now we want to help you maintain your healthy lifestyle. We’ll look at the new skills you’ve acquired, things that worked during your weight loss (reducing phase) and your specific challenges so we can help you stay at your healthier weight.
Maintaining your weight for the months and years to come may be a new concept to you – in the past, at this point in your weight loss journey, you might have dusted off your hands, said project done and gone on with your life. The problem with this method is that you found yourself 10, 20, or maybe 50 pounds heavier in just a matter of time. You may have lost focus on your weight and perhaps slipped back into old habits that caused you to gain weight in the first place. That’s where the S.T.A.R. program works.
The S.T.A.R. Plan is designed to keep you on track as it’s based on key elements that were successful for people who have lost 30 pounds or more and kept it off for a year or more. Successful weight maintainers approach weight maintenance as their next goal, pay careful attention to the behavior modifications they made to lose weight and frequently weigh themselves. Most importantly, they react to a small weight gain before it becomes unmanageable.
Our maintenance program, S.T.A.R., will build your personal version of these key elements and strengthen the skills that have helped you achieve your weight loss success.
S.T.A.R. ZONES
During maintenance, you will always fall within one of three zones; Green, Yellow or Red.
That zone will guide you in maintaining your weight or raise flags on when you need to refocus and modify your behaviors.
Green Safety Zone
In the Green Safety Zone you are maintaining your goal weight within 3 to 5 pounds*.
Yellow Caution Zone
(Within 5 to 8 pounds)
On occasion, you might slip and regain weight beyond the 3 to 5 pound safety zone and be unable to easily fall back to the Green Safety Zone. If this is where you are you will be directed to self-assessment activities to help you get back on track.
Red Correction Zone
(Greater than 8 pounds)
The Red Correction Zone is defined as having gained more than 5 to 8 pounds, which puts you in significant danger of continuing to regain excess weight. You will be advised to increase physical activity and reactivate weight loss efforts with a new plan, along with increased contact with your S.T.A.R. coach.
*Based on weight goals set in your initial one-on-one session.
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