Weight loss tips: maintaining long term weight-loss possible, says research
Substantial weight-loss is believed to be a sporadic phenomenon with patients often gaining the lost weight with the passage time. However, this was proven wrong by researchers who charter the participants for ten years.
The data was presented by Dr Graham Thomas, a researcher at the National Weight Control Registry at the 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society, in Orlando, Florida, last week.
The research data was charted out by following the 3,133 people who enrolled in the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) between 1993 and 2001 and charting their demographic characteristics and yearly body weights obtained by questionnaires.
It was discovered that weight gain was faster during the initial years and then gradually slowed down later during the ten years.
On examining the demographic characteristics, it was found that well-educated males managed to keep off the most weight and had a larger initial weight loss, a lower maximum lifetime body weight, and had been keeping the weight off longer before they entered the study.
The researchers’ conclusion was, “Slow regain is typical for successful weight losers, but most continue to maintain a substantial weight loss of at least 10% of initial body weight even after 10 years.”
Thomas said, “People are sometimes very fatalistic about the chances of losing weight and maintaining the loss”. Despite this NWCR participants are holding firm.
Thomas stressed that participants were able to keep weight gain at bay because they are keeping track of the food they eat, counting calories, or counting the amount of fat they consume or are using a commercial weight loss program.
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As someone who lost over 60 pounds and has now kept if off for almost 4 years…I can tell you that I experienced everything that this study shows.
The initial weight loss, putting a few back on and then getting ‘back on the wagon’ and losing it again.
The most important thing for me is that the fitness and nutrition changes I have been were not temporary. I never felt that I was on a ‘diet’. I completely changed my lifestyle and really never looked back.
This is the biggest reason for the difference between people who lose weight and put it back on and people who lose weight and keep it off.
Tony Rovere
October 17, 2011 at 11:16 am