Lose Weight and Keep It Off

Proven Strategies to Keep Weight Off for Good

If 2011 was a successful year for slimming down, now comes the tricky part: maintaining your weight loss. Here, we reveal the secrets of those who have shed 30 pounds or more and kept if off
By Hollis Templeton fitbie
 

Don’t Expect Miracles from Surgery

Research shows that maintaining a significant weight loss is entirely possible without surgery. Results from a study published in the International Journal of Obesity show that among 105 NWCR members who underwent bariatric weight loss surgery (only about 2% of registry members have had weight loss surgery) and 210 members who lost weight by nonsurgical methods there were no significant differences in weight regain between the groups upon entry into the NWCR and after a 1-year follow-up.

“Surgery is not a magic bullet,” says Thomas, explaining that maintaining surgical weight loss requires many of the same behaviors, like restricting calories and exercising regularly, necessary for maintaining weight loss in general.

Nonsurgical weight loss, however, does take more work to maintain. Surgical study participants reported that they consumed more fat calories, ate fast food more regularly, ate breakfast less frequently, and got less physical activity than nonsurgical participants.

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