{"id":9240,"date":"2009-06-17T01:02:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2009-06-17T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T13:35:56","slug":"mike-morellis-weight-loss-maintenance-after-biggest-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/mike-morellis-weight-loss-maintenance-after-biggest-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Morelli&#8217;s Weight Loss Maintenance after Biggest Loser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/biggest-loser-2nd-place-mike-morelli\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9287\" title=\"mike morelli before and after\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mike-morelli-before-and-after.jpg\" alt=\"mike morelli before and after\" width=\"274\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Calorie counting, watching sodium intake, pounding water like I was preparing to traverse the Sahara, and I thought I had a good handle on my weight. After months of working out nonstop, eating perfectly, and cutting weight, I thought that having to maintain my new weight would be all too easy. As it turns out, this 19-year-old has some things to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been home for about a month since the Season 7 <a title=\"biggest loser diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Biggest_Loser_Club\/\" target=\"_self\">Biggest Loser <\/a>finale, and it has been one the toughest challenges I have had to face yet.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m on my own with my weight, I have had my share of struggles and successes. Many people have asked me what I do now that I&#8217;m home. What I eat. How I workout. How did I do it. I have asked myself those same questions everyday since I got back home.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is one thing about me that everyone should know first off. I don&#8217;t put on an act for anyone. I talk straight and tell the truth about what is hard for me and isn&#8217;t. And in truth, I have really struggled since I&#8217;ve been home with eating. <strong><em>It is hard!<\/em><\/strong> Maintainence is more difficult than losing in my opinion. I&#8217;ve had trouble following my diet, and have even had fast-food!<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. What did I learn on the show if I can go back so quickly, right? Well, I learned that one mistake doesn&#8217;t have to be followed by another, and you can always learn from them.<\/p>\n<p>So back to those all important questions so many people have.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/biggest-loser-2nd-place-mike-morelli\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9288\" title=\"mike morelli and jillian michaels\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mike-morelli-and-jillian-michaels.jpg\" alt=\"mike morelli and jillian michaels\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I eat 2000 calories a day. My new philosophy with food\u00a0is adopted from <a title=\"jillian michaels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Jillian_Michaels\/\" target=\"_self\">Jillian<\/a>. If it didn&#8217;t come from the ground or didn&#8217;t have a mother- I don&#8217;t eat it. (Good-bye Oreos).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I shoot for 2 hours of working out a day. I jog for 60-90 minutes, and spend the rest of my time lifting weights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As for my weight, I want to be 200-215 pounds. <a title=\"dr. h biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/dr-huizenga-interview-at-biggest-loser-6-finale\/\" target=\"_self\">Dr. H<\/a> says that is healthy for my body type and is a reasonable goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main thing I take away from every single day is that weight, like life, is and will always be a work in progress.\u00a0Some things work, some don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0have to face challenges openly to grow and to learn. If we learn and adapt, we may be down, but never out. As long as we keep striving to be healthy, we may not be perfect, but we are definitely on the right track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calorie counting, watching sodium intake, pounding water like I was preparing to traverse the Sahara, and I thought I had a good handle on my weight. After months of working out nonstop, eating perfectly, and cutting weight, I thought that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/mike-morellis-weight-loss-maintenance-after-biggest-loser\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[8,3677,1839,658,29,74],"class_list":["post-9240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-biggest-loser","tag-diet-tv","tag-maintenance","tag-mike-morelli","tag-nutrition","tag-weight-loss"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9285,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}