Keeping It Off: Long-Term Weight Maintenance Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts take up the story at the point most weight loss books end. Writers describe the disorienting shift from losing to maintaining, the loss of the goal that had organised everything, and the moment the scale stopped moving and had to become a tool rather than a verdict. There is the daily architecture that holding steady requires — the weighing frequency people settled on, the meals that stopped being decisions, the exercise that had to be non-negotiable, the vigilance around the first five pounds — and the metabolic reality of a body arguing to go back. Writers describe maintaining after bariatric surgery, after GLP-1 medication and after stopping it, and through pregnancy, injury, grief and menopause. Later chapters hold the honest regains, and what people did the second and third time.

Who it's for

For anyone at the end of a weight loss phase and unsure what comes next, people who have regained and are deciding whether to start again, and clinicians supporting the long middle.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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