Weight Maintenance - Learn from Successful Weight - 2007/05/12 00:07
The US National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) is a national database containing details of a large group of people who have been successful at long-term weight maintenance. To be included within the National Weight Control Registry you must have lost a minimum of 30 pounds of body weight and maintained this weight loss for at least 5 years. In fact, of the 2,000 registry members, the average weight loss is 60 pounds, maintained for 6 years