Step 8
Maintain Positive Changes
Overview
• Determining readiness for maintenance
• Techniques for resisting the “pull of the past”
• Tracking further progress
• Locking in and broadening the learning
• Changes to the coaching relationship after initial success
In Weight Watchers (now WW), where I worked for a few years as manager of a national field coaching program, when a person reaches her goal weight, she moves from a regular membership to a lifetime membership designed to help her keep the weight off for the rest of her life. She usually attends meetings less frequently and only has to pay a fee when she rises above her goal weight. The continued weigh-ins and potential fees inform her when she gains just a pound or two so the gain doesn’t ...
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