Lifetime Maintenance

Lifetime Maintenance
After a month at your target weight, you graduate from the "pre-maintenance" phase and move on to "lifetime maintenance," the fourth and final part of the Atkins diet.

Lifetime maintenance—Begin one month after weight-loss goal is achieved
May be able to consume from 90 to 120 grams of carbohydrates a day, depending on age, gender, and activity level ...

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This phase is intended to carry on the habits acquired in the previous phases, and avoid the common end-of-diet mindset that can return people to their previous habits and previous weight.

Lifetime Maintenance
Once you arrive at your goal weight, offer yourself some well-deserved congratulations and prepare for a lifetime of slimness. When you have totally stopped your weight loss, your appetite will increase toward its normal level.

You may stay on this program as long as you wish. You will be given the opportunity to sign up for our Pre-maintenance phase and Lifetime maintenance programs after you are done with this six week program.

Phase 3 (Pre-Maintenance) you make the transition from weight loss to weight maintenance by increasing the daily carbohydrate intake in 10 gram increments each week.
Phase 4 Lifetime Maintenance) you select from a wide variety of foods while ...

Atkins diet plan is divided into four main phases, the induction phase, ongoing weight loss phase, pre-maintenance phase and lifetime maintenance phase. Foods to be included in this diet vary according to the phase.

The fourth and final phase, Lifetime Maintenance, aims to help you maintain your weight.

The diet is divided into an initial phase of three or more months and a lifetime maintenance phase.

Lifetime Maintenance
As one moves through the four phases, more variety in food types can be added to the diet, including some breads, fruit, etc. that are considered taboo during the very early stages.

The plan has four phases -- induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance, and lifetime maintenance. Dieters' intake of fats and protein remains relatively steady during all these phases.

The fourth Lifetime Maintenance phase instructs dieters to continue eating the final amount of carbohydrates they reached in phase three.

See also: Atkins, Carbohydrates, Carbohydrate, Diet, Pre-Maintenance