Weighing yourself daily could be a key to lose weight, reveals a study. The team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California in the United States found out that adults who do not weigh themselves at all or did rarely are less likely to lose weight than those who weighed themselves often.
‘'Self-monitoring of weight daily is the key to succeed in effective weight loss program'.’
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Those that weighed themselves six to seven times a week had a significant weight loss (1.7 per cent) in 12 months. Monitoring your behaviour or body weight may increase your awareness of how changing behaviours can affect weight loss. These findings support the central role of self-monitoring in changing behaviour and increasing success in any attempt to better manage weight, the researchers stated.
The results will be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2018 in Chicago.
For the study, the team examined the self-weighing patterns of 1,042 adults (78 per cent male, average age 47) and whether there were differences in weight change by these self-weighing patterns over 12 months.
The participants weighed themselves at home as they normally would, without interventions, guidance or weight loss incentives from researchers.
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They found that people who never weighed themselves or only weighed once a week did not lose weight in the following year.
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