Stage 7 of 9
Maintenance
Keeping what works when there is no longer an obvious goal to organise around, and appetite settles somewhere new.
Tools for this stage
Tool
Nutrition Planner
Build a starting plan around the appetite you have today — meal frequency, tolerated foods, and the one or two things worth prioritising this month.
In development · not yet reviewed
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Questions worth asking your clinician
Take these with you. Appointments are short, and the things that matter most are easy to forget once you are in the room.
- What does long-term follow-up look like from here?
- What would you want me to report between appointments?
- Should I still be seeing a dietitian, and how often?
What this draws on
These are the reference works this page is being written against. Specific citations are added, line by line, before it leaves draft.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americanswww.dietaryguidelines.gov
Wherever you are in this, there is a version of eating well that fits.
Pick the stage you are actually in, not the one you think you should be past.