Weight-loss maintenance in overweight individuals one to five years following successful completion of a commercial weight loss program.
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From: The Masster on 21 Apr 2008 20:40 Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2001 Mar;25(3):325-31 Weight-loss maintenance in overweight individuals one to five years following successful completion of a commercial weight loss program.Lowe MR, Miller-Kovach K, Phelan S. Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA. lowe(a)drexel.edu OBJECTIVE: To determine weight loss maintenance among participants in a commercial weight loss program (Weight Watchers) who had reached their goal weights 1-5 y previously. DESIGN: A national sample (n=1002) was surveyed by phone to obtain demographic and weight-related information. An oversample (n=258) was recruited and weighed in person to develop a correction factor for self-reported weights in the national sample. RESULTS: Based on corrected weights, weight regain from 1 to 5 y following weight loss ranged between 31.5 and 76.5%. At 5 y, 19.4% were within 5 lb of goal weight, 42.6% maintained a loss of 5% or more, 18.8% maintained a loss of 10% or more, and 70.3% were below initial weight. CONCLUSIONS: These results are not directly comparable to those obtained in clinical settings because of differences in the populations studied. Nonetheless, they suggest that the long-term prognosis for weight maintenance among individuals who reach goal weight in at least one commercial program is better than that suggested by existing research.
From: misanthropic_curmudgeon on 22 Apr 2008 01:30
On Apr 22, 12:40 pm, ret...(a)nospam.sdf.lonestar.org.nospam (The Masster) wrote: > Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2001 Mar;25(3):325-31 [snip] Congratulations. You have posted a pseaudo-study that says people regain their weight gain when they stop eating 'properly'[1] and return to being sedentary face-stuffing slobs. Well done for enlightening us witha truism akin to 'the sky is blue' [1] lets not argue what properly is |