1. Eat Healthy
The Sugar Busters diet for weight loss is outlined in "The New Sugar Busters," which includes a 14-day meal plan. If you followed this plan to reach your goal weight, you already learned the basics for eating healthy and removing sugars from your diet. To maintain your current weight, continue to follow the plan, avoiding refined sugars and keeping carbohydrates to a minimum. Choose whole wheat breads and pasta, and avoid eating potatoes, corn and beets.
2. Skip the Sweets
Ice cream, cake and chocolate cravings cause many dieters to gain weight after reaching their goal. Sugar Busters blames eating excessive carbohydrates and refined sugars for increasing your body's insulin production, which leads to weight gain. As more insulin is produced, your body stores fat instead of burning it as energy. This means you should continue to skip dessert and avoid candy. Having a small slice of birthday cake probably won't lead to immediate weight gain, but falling back into a diet filled with sugary sweets won't help you maintain your ideal weight.
3. Cut Back When Needed
After losing weight on Sugar Busters, you do not need to follow the strict 1,200-calorie diet suggested by the meal plan in the book. Depending on the amount of your activity and exercise, you probably need close to 2,000 calories a day to maintain weight. Fall back on the guidelines you learned while on the diet. Larger portions mean more calories. Going back for seconds adds calories to your diet, as well. If you start to gain weight, cut back on your portion size and skip the extra trips to the kitchen.
4. Start a Regular Fitness Plan
Even when following the Sugar Busters diet, you eventually stop losing weight. If you've been struggling over those last 10 pounds or that five pounds that keep coming back, start exercising. This diet basis all weight loss on low insulin production, but most medical professionals agree that adding at least 45 minutes of daily physical activity contributes to losing and maintaining weight. Increase activity if you start to gain weight. Focus on aerobic and cardio exercises to drop pounds and toning exercises like Pilates or weight training to firm and chisel.
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