Weekends sabotage weight loss attempts, Obesity (Silver Spri
Method_One
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Here's a quick paper review from the good folks at www.ergo-log.com.
Looks like the weekend is killing our weight loss, well slowing it down at least.
The diet group lost 17.6lbs over the course of the year, and the exercise group lost 14.1lbs in the same time. I'd be interested to see if the exercise group gained any lean body mass that may have offset some of the weight loss.
www.ergo-log.com/weekendsweightloss.html
""Weekends sabotage weight loss attempts:
You're doing your best to lose weight, but it's going so slowly – you just wish those excess rolls of fat would disappear more quickly. An American study published in 2008 suggests that things go wrong during the weekend.
Four years ago, nutritionist Susan Racette, of Washington University in St Louis, published the results in Obesity of a yearlong experiment involving 48 subjects aged between 50 and 60, most of whom were overweight.
Nineteen of the subjects lost weight that year by eating less [CR]. Another 19 lost weight by exercising more [EX]. And the ten people in the control group made no attempt at all to lose weight [HL].
Those who ate less lost 8.0 kg, those who exercised more 6.4 kg. The researchers monitored their subjects so closely that they were able to see that weight loss stopped during the weekend. In fact the weight-losers actually put on weight at weekends.""
""Many weight loss experts and dieticians tell those wanting to lose weight that they can eat what they want at weekends. No doubt this is psychologically a good idea, because it makes it easier to stick to a diet. But Racette's research shows that weight losers need more eating discipline at weekends, not less.
"Weekend dietary indulgences contribute to weight gain or cessation of weight loss", the Americans write. "Our results support the importance of maintaining consistent dietary and physical activity patterns throughout the week to avoid unwanted weight gain and to facilitate consistent weight loss."
Maybe dieticians could advise weight-losers to restrict their 'free choice moments' to one hour a week, or to just one meal. A whole weekend of sinning is, erm, sinful indeed.""
Looks like the weekend is killing our weight loss, well slowing it down at least.
The diet group lost 17.6lbs over the course of the year, and the exercise group lost 14.1lbs in the same time. I'd be interested to see if the exercise group gained any lean body mass that may have offset some of the weight loss.
www.ergo-log.com/weekendsweightloss.html
""Weekends sabotage weight loss attempts:
You're doing your best to lose weight, but it's going so slowly – you just wish those excess rolls of fat would disappear more quickly. An American study published in 2008 suggests that things go wrong during the weekend.
Four years ago, nutritionist Susan Racette, of Washington University in St Louis, published the results in Obesity of a yearlong experiment involving 48 subjects aged between 50 and 60, most of whom were overweight.
Nineteen of the subjects lost weight that year by eating less [CR]. Another 19 lost weight by exercising more [EX]. And the ten people in the control group made no attempt at all to lose weight [HL].
Those who ate less lost 8.0 kg, those who exercised more 6.4 kg. The researchers monitored their subjects so closely that they were able to see that weight loss stopped during the weekend. In fact the weight-losers actually put on weight at weekends.""
""Many weight loss experts and dieticians tell those wanting to lose weight that they can eat what they want at weekends. No doubt this is psychologically a good idea, because it makes it easier to stick to a diet. But Racette's research shows that weight losers need more eating discipline at weekends, not less.
"Weekend dietary indulgences contribute to weight gain or cessation of weight loss", the Americans write. "Our results support the importance of maintaining consistent dietary and physical activity patterns throughout the week to avoid unwanted weight gain and to facilitate consistent weight loss."
Maybe dieticians could advise weight-losers to restrict their 'free choice moments' to one hour a week, or to just one meal. A whole weekend of sinning is, erm, sinful indeed.""
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