Healthy Habits for a Lifetime: Your Guide to Long-Term Well-Being
Practical tips to create healthy habits, manage triggers, and thrive post-treatment.
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Treatment may end – but your progress can continue. Use the time of your treatment to build your new happy You!
Some weight control medicines can work wonders by curbing appetite and, for some, even reducing alcohol cravings. Although they will help you lose weight, they are not a permanent solution for most people.
When your treatment with the medication ends, old habits — especially around food and drink — may start to resurface. That’s completely normal.
The good news: this phase is also a valuable opportunity to build new, healthy habits that truly support you.
These new routines will help you stay grounded — even long after you’ve stopped taking the medication.
They’re your personal key to feeling well and living well, entirely on your own.
Creating healthy habits while taking medication is key to long-term well-being.
A moment that the brain helps shape
There is a real chance of change.
During treatment, more than just the feeling of hunger changes – new conditions are also created in the brain.
When the appetite is dampened, a space is created in which conscious behaviour can be established more easily. This is also known as utilising neuroplasticity. This is precisely where the opportunity lies: now is the moment when new routines can take root particularly well – be it in eating, exercising or dealing with stress.
Our newsletter accompanies you in this process – with small, concrete impulses that you can apply directly in your everyday life.
The aim is not to achieve perfect discipline, but to develop new habits that really suit you – during treatment and beyond.
Because many of these changes have a double effect: they stabilise your well-being while you are taking the medication and make the time afterwards easier.
When the medication is later discontinued, healthy patterns remain – such as more conscious eating, a relaxed approach to alcohol or small exercise rituals.
Change does not need to be all-or-nothing.
It needs repetition, patience – and sometimes just the right moment to get started. That moment could be right now.
What you do every day makes you strong
What might your lighter, healthier life look like?
Imagine this: your day feels clearer. You move through it with more ease – both physically and mentally. Maybe you’re sleeping better, eating more mindfully, or enjoying movement that truly feels good to you.
What exactly would be different?
What does your day look like when you feel more at home in your body – and more in tune with yourself?
Mindful Eating and Drinking
- New decisions for new outcomes.
It’s completely normal to crave familiar favorite foods while you’re in the process of losing weight. But changing your behavior also means taking new paths – so that the outcome can begin to change in the first place.
If we continue eating the way we always have, our weight is likely to remain the same – or return once the medication is discontinued.
You might be thinking to yourself:
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Nutrient Intake During Caloric Restriction
These weight loss medications help you eat less – a therapeutically desired effect.
However, lower caloric intake often also leads to a reduced intake of essential micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and trace elements – especially if one continues to rely on highly processed foods.
Manage Triggers
What happens when emotional regulation through food no longer works?
Many people have—often unconsciously—learned to use food not only to satisfy hunger, but also to regulate emotions: tension, boredom, sadness, or the need for structure and comfort.
When food has played a central role in emotional self-soothing—especially through sugar or large quantities of food—the loss of this strategy can be challenging.
If this coping mechanism is suddenly interrupted (e.g., by medication),
Find alternatives:
You don’t need dietary plans for weight loss, when you take these weight control medicines. But for forming the new habits, that will keep you slim also after taking these supporting medicines, you need to eat and drink other food and beverages than now.
Support System
Change works best when you feel supported.
The encouragement of friends, family, or like-minded people can help you stay on track – especially when things feel challenging.
You might also consider joining a group focused on healthy living or personal growth. Sharing goals, experiences, and small wins with others can be deeply motivating – and reminds you that you’re not alone.
Many people find it helpful to gradually bring new skills into their daily life:
Track Progress
Consciousness helps you reach your goals.
When you understand yourself better, you can act more intentionally – and stay motivated more easily.
The following methods can help make your progress visible and tangible:
- A clear decision is THE prerequisite for reaching your goal to loose weight:
Celebrate Progress
Reward yourself for saying no to overeating and alcohol.
Celebrate both big and small milestones – not with cake or champagne, but with enjoyable experiences or activities that honor your body, like a massage, a pedicure, or anything else that brings you joy.
When you apply these strategies in everyday life, you’ll be able to maintain the healthy habits you developed during your weight loss – even after stopping the medication.
You’ll stay slim!
This website is not meant to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or provide treatment. It is for informational and educational purpose only. We would like to encourage you to seek your primary care provider should you have medical concerns. The information provided on this website is not meant to be a substitute for a visit with a healthcare provider. Any comments made about specific products, medicines or treatment plans are not meant to diagnose, cure or prevent disease.
