People never want to start a weight loss effort on a Friday…always Monday. Why? Because as much as we don’t like to think about it in this manner, we equate “dieting” with sacrifice, deprivation and taking away our fun. For the long term strategy of losing weight and keeping that weight off we have to eliminate the concept of a “finish line”. Let me provide this analogy I give my patients: In a 100 yard race, when the sprinter crosses the finish line, he/she does not continue to run. The person drops to a knee, drinks fluids, towels off, rests and you can almost hear from the stands the happy exclamation: “Whew, glad that is over!!!” Similarly, when we embark on a weight loss goal, when we reach our perceived target weight, psychologically, we pass a “finish line” that allows us to go back to old behaviors. Unfortunately, the old behaviors result in the gaining back of the weight we worked so hard to lose.
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