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Colorado Health Sciences Center, says that the diet that peeled off your first 30 pounds or so and got you to where you are now, won’t trim off that last 10 pounds. To reach that goal, you will have to eat a little less or exercise a bit more. And to maintain it, you will have to continue this program.

Dr. Diane Hanson of Pritikin Longevity Center says when you stop losing weight, what you need is a “pat on the back” not a “kick in the pants.” What you need to do at his point when you still have 10 pounds to lose, is think back on what you have accomplished so far and recognize that the next 10 pounds is every bit as achievable as losing that weight you have already lost. You see, if you aren’t careful here, you won’t try as hard — you might say to yourself, “Is that cheesecake really going to hurt?” When that happens, it is time to get yourself stirred up again and renew your commitment to weight control. You have to reaffirm your weight loss goals and admit that food splurges may be undermining your best efforts.

Now, another reason that last 10 pounds is so hard to get off may be because, in the process of losing the first 30 pounds, you could have lost muscle mass. Since muscle is metabolically active tissue, losing muscle slows your metabolism, making the pounds roll off more slowly. To counteract this slowdown, you need to build up calorie-burning muscle tis

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