How Can I Make Sure to Maintain My Weight Loss? (0:50)
To maintain weight loss over time, it's important to make long-term lifestyle changes, rather than relying on quick-fix diets. Watch as psychiatrist Sudeepta Varma, MD, discusses the importance of lifestyle changes for weight loss maintenance.
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I tell people when they are asking about maintaining weight loss. It's important that you don't look at the changes that you're making as a diet, but rather as a lifestyle change. And this is probably advice you've heard before, but I find that if you're trying to lose weight in a very short period of time perhaps for an event that's fine, we all have something that we have to go to, where we want to look good, right?
But if you can, try to incorporate at least one or two aspects of that diet, so that means eating more fruits and vegetables, if that means for example cutting out certain sugary foods or even allowing yourself maybe one small sugary snack a day or dessert, taking what you learn from your diet and seeing what aspects of it are actually going to become a part of my everyday life.
Sudeepta Varma, MD, is a board certified psychiatrist at the NYU Langone Medical Center. She was also the founding medical director and attending psychiatrist to a prestigious mental health program at NYU Langone.
