How should I adjust my diet and exercise to maintain my weight without regain after dieting?
With rapid food restriction or exercise-only weight loss, assess sustainability and muscle preservation together. Build a maintenance plan suited to your condition around regular eating, activity, and sleep.
Extreme food restriction may change the number on the scale in the short term but can cause fatigue and rebound appetite, while exercise-only loss can make muscle preservation difficult. Both approaches should be assessed for whether they can be maintained.
Korean medicine may interpret poor digestion and low energy through spleen qi deficiency (脾虛), and fluid retention and heaviness through phlegm-fluid retention (痰飮). This helps set priorities for lifestyle care; it does not establish a single cause of weight gain.
Record weight, waist circumference, eating, activity, and sleep, then adjust one factor at a time during maintenance. If herbal medicine or acupuncture is considered, review medical history, current medicines, expected effects, and possible discomfort before deciding.
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