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You've Reached Your Best Weight. What Happens Now?
Congratulations! You've changed your diet and your eating habits, and you've successfully attained your weight-loss goal! So, what happens now?

These tips will help ensure that the pounds stay off and that you continue eating the most nutritious diet possible.

•  After you reach your best weight, add about 200 calories of healthful, low-fat food to your average daily intake.

•  After a week, if you're still losing weight, add a few hundred more calories.

•  If you change the amount of exercise you do, adjust your eating.

•  Keep a record of what you eat and how much exercise you do, so you'll know how to make adjustments.