After following the habits of men and women who achieved their healthy fast weight loss goals and have lasting healthy fast weight loss, the The National Weight Control Registry[1] reports facts.
below are the ones that are "habits to achieve healthy fast weight loss" :
"*. We have also started to learn about how the weight loss was accomplished: 45% of registry participants lost the weight on their own and the other 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 most frequently reported form of activity being walking.
*. There is variety in how NWCR members keep the weight off. Most report continuing to maintain a low calorie, low fat diet and doing high levelsof activity.
*. 78% eat breakfast every day.
*. 75% weigh themselves at least once aweek.
*. 62% watch less than 10 hours of TV per week.
*. 90% exercise, on average, about 1 hour per day."1
[1] The National Weight Control Registry,Brown Medical School/The Miriam Hospital and Weight Control & Diabetes Research Center, is a research study thatseeks to gather information from peoplewho have successfully lost weight, the fast healthy weight loss, andkept it off.
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Physical Activity and Weight Gain Prevention, another related research study by I-Min Lee , MBBS, ScD, Luc Djoussé , MD, DSc, Howard D. Sesso , ScD, Lu Wang , MD, PhD, and Julie E. Buring , ScD published on the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health web site
