Would-be weight losers pay $100 a month to belong to a gym they rarely visit.
In this paper, we describe the study design and baseline characteristics of participants enrolled in a trial to evaluate a program (Keep It Off) developed specifically for weight-loss maintenance using therapeutic phone contact with recent weight losers throughout the period in which they are at highest risk for weight regain.
With a fresh start built on solid principles, dieters over age 50 may not be the fastest weight losers, but our efforts will pay off in the long run with self-knowledge, patience and persistence.
In addition, the weight losers were less physically able.
Women who lost or gained more than 5.0 kg were classified respectively as weight losers and weight gainers.
The high body mass index of the weight losers related to their height rather than their adiposity; the weight losers were significantly shorter than the weight maintainers (P < 0.05).
Fifty-seven percent of successful weight losers (≥3% from baseline after 1 year of the DPP) regained their initially lost weight after an average of 5.1 years; 43% of successful weight losers were able to maintain some amount of weight loss.
Weight losers, however had a lower disinhibition score, indicating an increase likelihood to overeat in the presence of disinhibitors.
While there was no difference in the loss of lean tissue mass, the weight losers lost significantly more fat mass than the weight maintainers (P < 0.001).
Therefore, 1,442 participants are included in this analysis: 762 (52.8%) of successful weight losers were lifestyle participants, 452 (31.4%) were metformin participants, and 228 (15.8%) participated in the placebo arm.
However, by 143 weeks, all those who had transferred to high care (100%) and 86% of those who died were weight losers (P = 0.03).
