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What to do after finishing a diet?

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After all the sacrifices and treats you had to give up, you have finally reached your goal: the diet can be considered over!

But what does this mean? That from today everything will go back to how it was before? Absolutely not.

The end of a diet is only the beginning of your new life.

How do you avoid putting the weight back on at the end of a diet?
Nutritionists and dietitians Florence Foucaut and Audrey Vaillant explain it like this: "To get back to your healthy weight and maintain it over time, you need to learn to eat healthily, while tasting a little of everything and above all enjoying yourself". So there are no forbidden foods, but you need to learn to eat healthily, tasting a little of everything.

A very common mistake after a diet is to start eating exactly as before. "The best thing is to gradually reintroduce the foods you were trying to limit, savouring them fully," stresses Vaillant, "and avoiding feelings of guilt or the resignation of ‘I'm doomed anyway’". So yes to treats, but gradually! "The aim of anyone on a diet is to get back to their ideal weight and get rid of excess fat," explains Florence Foucaut. "To do this, you need to eat healthily and accept a nutritional re-education which, if done well, protects you from putting the lost weight back on". According to Vaillant, the combination of restriction and constraint is bad for the body and damages eating behaviour: "So it is best to avoid overly punitive phases, make peace with food and get out of the obsessive spiral of ‘slimming diets’. To avoid regaining weight, it is essential to build a good relationship with food, without always thinking about calories but by learning a way of eating that you then make entirely and consistently your own.

Do not trust «light» products, or at least always check the labels. "You need to ask yourself in what sense the food is lighter," explains Foucaut. "If, for example, it contains less sugar than the original, it may contain more fat. And vice versa". In any case, remember to keep quantities moderate.
 

So what should you do after a diet?

  • Take care to reintroduce foods gradually
  • Do physical activity
  • Pay attention to portions
Careful! Remember that there is such a thing as a healthy weight, so you cannot lose weight at will; it is important to be followed by a specialist.

Discover the food supplements we suggest for getting back in shape:

  • Bruciagrassi
  • Glucoman
 

 


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