DOC News December 1, 2006
Volume 3 Number 12 p. 11
© 2006 American Diabetes Association
Maintaining Weight Loss
People who manage to successfully lose weight too often gain it back. A
group of investigators from Brown Medical School in Providence, R.I., and
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, devised a self-regulating program
for maintaining weight loss that appears to begin to address the
problem.
The team recruited 314 participants who were randomly assigned to a control
group that received quarterly newsletters, a group that received face-to-face
intervention, and a group that received Internet-based intervention. In both
intervention groups, the content was the same: information that emphasized
daily self-weighing and self-regulation of weight loss. The outcome measured
was weight gain over an 18-month period.
Participants in the face-to-face group gained an average 2.5 kg (5.5 lb),
while the Internet-based group gained an average 4.7 kg (10.4 lb), and the
control group gained an average 4.9 kg (10.8 lb). Daily self-weighing
increased in both intervention groups and was associated with less risk of
regaining 
2.3 kg (5 lb).
"As compared to receiving quarterly newsletters, a self-regulating
program based on daily weighing improved maintenance of weight loss,
particularly when delivered face to face," the researchers conclude.
Wing RR, Tate DF, Gorin AA, et al.: A self-regulation
program for maintenance of weight loss. N Engl J Med 355: 1563–1571, 2006[Abstract/Free Full Text]
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