Maintaing Your Ideal Weight - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Basically one word, and that's exercise. If you're not willing to exercise, then that means you're not willing to keep the weight off. We know now from a famous study that has been done on people that have been successful at losing weight and keeping it off for at last five years. That the one guiding light, the one way that they were able to keep this weight off was by doing quite a bit of exercise. So, remember you can lose weight without the exercise part but if you want to keep that wight off, it's just simply too hard in this society to eat so few calories for the rest of your life without burning it by being more active and getting in about 30 minutes of aerobic exercise every single day. That means no marathons required, just even walking the dog or walking around the block 30 minutes a day will do it.