Weight Control Gets Easier Over Time - 2007/05/11 23:47
For several health-related behaviors (smoking cessation, alcoholism, weight loss), risk of relapse seems to decrease over time. The purpose of this study was to examine, among registry members, the relationship between duration of weight loss maintenance and the amount of effort and attention required to maintain a weight loss. Registry members who had maintained weight losses for longer periods of time reported using fewer weight control strategies and indicated that less effort was needed to stay on a diet and to maintain their current weight. Members who had maintained weight losses for both shorter and longer periods of time derived equal amounts of pleasure from exercise, low-fat eating and maintaining their weight losses. Thus, as duration of maintenance increases, the effort required to maintain seems to decrease. This shift may make it easier to continue maintaining the weight loss.
(Source: Klem, M.L., Wing, R.R., Lang, W., McGuire, M.T., and Hill, J.O. (In press). Does weight loss maintenance become easier over time? Obesity Research.)
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