Overweight people to abandon their healthy habits they have acquired
Has shown a lot of weight loss programs effective in helping people with overweight and obesity to get rid of some kilos of weight, but to maintain this result is something else.
Studies have shown that people with excess weight quickly abandon their healthy habits acquired from diet to lose weight to come back to gain 30 to 50% by weight, which got rid of it within one year of weight loss, even if they participated in the program to maintain weight after following diet.
Kiernan is the main author of a new study published newspaper Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology under the title maintain a healthy weight by following skills stability first.
Weight maintenance needs to be trained, had assumed a researcher in this study that people who got rid of the excess weight will maintain this syndrome better if Tmrnoa before embarking on a weight loss diet. This hypothesis is based on social cognitive theory says that a person feeling confident in his ability to do something to help the already accomplished.
In this study, the researchers selected more than 260 women suffer overweight or obese, and was Tksiman randomly into two groups. Both groups took part in a session of the six months included the program for weight loss and program to keep the weight decreased.
In the first group, which began losing weight ladies participated in the program for weight reduction behaviors for 20 weeks followed by a program to solve the problem of maintaining the weight for eight weeks. The program included the obstacles faced by women in the following year to lose weight.
In the second group, which began a program to learn how to maintain the new weight, women respondents participated in the program skills to maintain a stable weight for eight weeks did not ask which of the ladies trying to lose weight.
In this program the request of the ladies improve their behavior pattern in eating such vigilance full taste and smell of food, or learn to leave a small amount of food remaining in the dish, and to get rid of the idea that you either you follow the diet or do not do. Then participated this group of women in a weight loss program for 20 weeks.
Both groups Tkhalsta of 16 pounds on average in the past six months. But a year later, the ladies in the group returned the initial acquisition of nearly seven pounds on average, compared to only 3 pounds between ladies second group.The reason in the opinion of the researcher Kim Gorman feeling ladies second group of self-confidence and have the motivation to keep on weight.
Says Gorman, program director Weight Management at the University of Kloredua: "The claim ladies second group do not try to lose weight in the weeks the first eight of the program allowed them to learn important skills without fear. And say here without fear because a lot of the ladies Atkhalsn of excess weight by a significant amount and then lose their self-confidence when any sign of increased weight; they were not willing to accept such an increase and therefore Gmn on a diet to lose weight to failure. "
