Maintenance usually begins when weight loss stops, and can start at about 1500 kcal per day. However, it will vary because the recommended daily energy intake figures are 2000 kcal for women and 2500 kcal for men, so some people may still lose some weight if their intake is below these levels.

The real danger is – after the ‘exciting’ weight loss phase – that all the old reasons for being overweight could return. The Cambridge four-stage process helps you to understand the reasons for your original overweight, and the stabilisation adds selected healthy food choices. In the maintenance stage, you can continue this healthy eating and increasing the levels of activity. Many people continue to use Cambridge once or twice a day – not only to control energy intake but to carry on getting the benefits of good nutrition.

Keep a regular check on your weight. When your body weight is increased by more than 1.5 kg above your ideal weight, it is time to take prompt action. This can be done by cutting out a conventional meal and having a SoyaSlim® meal instead. As time goes by, people who have been plagued by being overweight for most of their lives become slim, and attain great confidence. The Cambridge Diet SoyaSlim® is a very powerful tool with which you can control your weight.

Cutting Down on the Calories
• Avoid fat
• Restrict salt
• Eat fibre
• Restrict sugar
• Restrict Alcohol
• Avoid Fast Food
• Eat Healthy foods

A Permanent Change
One of the most severe criticisms of the Cambridge Diet made by some psychologists and hospital dieticians, is that it does not change people’s eating habits in the long term and is therefore useless, particularly for maintaining weight-loss. To these armchair critics it is just another fad diet. Nothing could be further from the truth as anyone can vouch who has used the diet as a sole source of nutrition for several weeks. For the first time one realises that vast quantities of food are not indispensable to life. It trains you to live without having food continually on your mind and the experience has a beneficial effect on most people. There is ample proof that the Cambridge stabilisation and maintenance plan achieves excellent results in returning the dieter to long-term healthy eating principles.