National Weight Control Registry (facts)

Fit4sure

As someone who has lost a significant amount of weight, I'm enrolled in the National Weight Control Registry to be "studied" to learn about weight loss, maintenance (or not) and the hows/whys/whats all involved in that. I just completed about 30 some odd pages of questions (fill in the tiny little dot/square/oval) and sent it in and I thought I'd share their last findings to date:

Duration of successful weight loss ranged from 1 to 66 years among participants in this registry.

Some have lost weight rapidly and some have taken as long as 14 years...

45% of registry participants lost the weight on their own. 55% lost weight with the help of some type of program.

98% of registry participants report that they modified their food intake in some way to lose weight.

94% increased their physical activity with the activity most reported being walking.

What I got out of this is it still boils down to "calories in needs to be less than calories burned"...or as I like to say...Eat Better/Move More!

Most of the SUCCESSFUL maintainers did the following:

1. lost it with diet and exercise
2. Used different "types of diet" to lose it but it basically to keep it off they ate a low-calorie, low in fat and high in carbohydrates. (Dont' hit me...That's just what the research has proven from this national study.
3. Ate breakfast every day.
4. Weighed themselves frequently (most about once per day)
5. Watched a limited amount of t.v.
6. Didn't let a small weight gain get larger.
7. Ate fairly consistently from day to day (even on the weekends.

Just thought I'd share as it was quite interesting to me. I'm going on my 6th year of maintaining my weight so I like to stay up on the research. (grinning cause that was a little bit of a brag).

afwg1979

Earlier today, I learned about "The National Weight Control Registry" and searched MFP to see if this topic had ever been posted (because I believe I'd like to register when I reach my goal weight). I was happy to find that MFP member, Fit4sure, posted the following (on November 9, 2011) :

As someone who has lost a significant amount of weight, I'm enrolled in the National Weight Control Registry to be "studied" to learn about weight loss, maintenance (or not) and the hows/whys/whats all involved in that. I just completed about 30 some odd pages of questions (fill in the tiny little dot/square/oval) and sent it in and I thought I'd share their last findings to date:

Duration of successful weight loss ranged from 1 to 66 years among participants in this registry.

Some have lost weight rapidly and some have taken as long as 14 years...

45% of registry participants lost the weight on their own. 55% lost weight with the help of some type of program.

98% of registry participants report that they modified their food intake in some way to lose weight.

94% increased their physical activity with the activity most reported being walking.

What I got out of this is it still boils down to "calories in needs to be less than calories burned"...or as I like to say...Eat Better/Move More!

Most of the SUCCESSFUL maintainers did the following:

1. lost it with diet and exercise
2. Used different "types of diet" to lose it but it basically to keep it off they ate a low-calorie, low in fat and high in carbohydrates. (Dont' hit me...That's just what the research has proven from this national study.
3. Ate breakfast every day.
4. Weighed themselves frequently (most about once per day)
5. Watched a limited amount of t.v.
6. Didn't let a small weight gain get larger.
7. Ate fairly consistently from day to day (even on the weekends.

Just thought I'd share as it was quite interesting to me. I'm going on my 6th year of maintaining my weight so I like to stay up on the research. (grinning cause that was a little bit of a brag).

:flowerforyou: I congratulate and admire everyone who successfully lost and continue to maintain their goal weights.

Wishes for continued success! :drinker: