As your goal weight approaches, you will enter a transition period. This phase will be when you are adjusting from your medications and restricted calorie diet.  This period may last between two to four months or may be more gradual in the meal replacement (links to Meal Replacements) program option.

The maintenance phase is just as critical and important as any part leading up to it. This is where the support and education of our program can help you.

Become a “Maintainer”

Maintainers are more likely than relapsers to devise a personal eating plan, to exercise as part of their weight-loss effort, and to make attempts to avoid feelings of deprivation while changing food patterns. They also make conscious efforts to avoid gaining weight. Ninety percent of maintainers exercised regularly, but only 34% of relapsers did so.

Maintenance Plan

Follow these steps if you are on the appetite suppressant weight loss therapy:

1. At your first maintenance visit, you will be given a 28-day supply of your appetite suppressants and any other supplements that you are taking.
2. Beginning the morning after, you are to weigh yourself each day, just after waking up, with minimal clothing and with an empty bladder.  The weight should be obtained using a reliable bathroom scale.  Your initial weight, obtained that first morning will be your BASE WEIGHT and should be written down on several pieces of paper.  Attach one paper to the scale and place the others in several locations throughout your home to avoid losing it.  By weighing yourself in a standard way, you can tell how you are progressing and assist yourself in holding at this desired level.
3. Continue to take your vitamins and supplements on a daily basis, regardless of what your weight is or how far under or over you are.
4. On days that your weight is equal to or less than your BASE WEIGHT, you should not take your appetite suppressant medication and you can eat whatever you wish – within reason!  If you are even a fraction of a pound over your BASE WEIGHT, take the appetite suppressant for that day at the usual dose and follow your standard weight loss meal plan.  If you are away from home and cannot weigh on your own scale, then take the appetite suppressant for that day and every day after that until you are back home.
5. Follow this plan without change during your first two months of the maintenance phase as you begin to taper off on the appetite suppressants.  Beginning with the third month, you can begin to add more food and beverages to your basic diet.
6. Keep your water and non-caloric food intake as high as before.  Continue your usual pattern of exercise and other physical activities with no changes from the way you did during the pre-maintenance phase.
7. You should receive one B12 injection a month for three months and then get them only when you need more appetite suppressants or energy.
8. By following these steps, you can expect more success and less disappointment over the long haul.  When your physician asks you to return for periodic monitoring visits, it is important and vital that you do return.  By staying active in your weight management, you will help insure that all of the time and money that you have invested is not lost.

In the event that there is a relapse and you regain some of the weight, your physician will restart you back on the active program until the BASE WEIGHT is reached again. 

Are you looking for a permanent solution to your weight problem?  Learn more about the permanent Mesotherapy fat elimination.