Holidays, buffets, restaurant visits, vacations, etc., after you’ve stopped weight loss medication

Life is not just everyday routines

Most people find that healthy habits are easier to maintain during everyday life, where many of us live a relatively routine-based life following a similar pattern each day. Healthy habits can be more easily challenged when everyday life is interrupted by Christmas dinners, birthday celebrations, vacations, etc. Here you will find good advice on how to safely navigate through temptations after you have stopped weight loss medication.

Choose wisely and remember common sense

You have stopped weight loss medication and now need to find your own path – a middle ground where good, healthy, and nutritious food predominates, but where you also have room for enjoyment now and then. Because that’s how life is – you will occasionally go to a birthday with buns and layer cake, just as you will need room for seven-course dinners, vacations with extra ice cream, chips, and alcohol, and a delicious Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.

You need to live your life normally but with a special focus on patience, perseverance, and realism – these are the things that will get you to your goal, so that after your weight loss, you can maintain a stable weight for the rest of your life.

Elements of enjoyment, hunger, and satiety

Sense also allows for elements of enjoyment such as candy, ice cream, cake, chips, soda, etc. If you use a little sugar or honey in your cooking, it simply counts as a flavor enhancer, but if you eat larger amounts, you must assess how much you need to remove from a meal box to compensate. For example, if it’s a small piece of cake, you may need to cut half a meal box away.

Eat when you are hungry. There’s nothing wrong with feeling hungry; you just need to avoid becoming too hungry. This increases your risk of “falling off” and overeating in terms of calories. It’s better to eat enough food in your three meal boxes. Remember common sense and balance. Even if you deviate from the meal box model for one of your meals, avoid eating more food than what would be in one meal box energy-wise. For example, if you eat a piece of cake, be aware that there shouldn’t also be a lot of additional calories in that meal box.

Find your own path

Perhaps it has been easy for you to stick to a fixed structure with smaller meals while you were on weight loss medication? Now the medication is out of your system, and your feelings of hunger and satiety are no longer influenced by the medication’s chemicals. Therefore, you need to learn to recognize your own hunger and satiety and at the same time find your own path, where you can tailor Sense to your daily life. If you have been eating according to a structure with three meals a day, continue with that, but you can also choose to divide the meal boxes into halves or take a little from one or more for a couple of snacks during the day. Sense works for weight loss as long as you don’t eat more than what fits into the three meal boxes overall – and as long as you are in a calorie deficit.