Many people struggle to withhold long term success of keeping weight off, often changing back to old habits once results gradually begin to slow. A new study analyses the habits and opinions of people continue who keep weight off. The majority of the weight-loss maintainers reported eating a low-calorie diet, engaging in high levels of physical activity, frequent self-monitoring, problem solving, setting daily intake goals, and limiting sitting time, as their main solutions to their weight maintenance. The weight-loss maintainers also characterised “sources of tension”, such as old habits and impulses, pleasure, discomfort in new body image, which could potentially disrupt weight-maintenance success by identifying several strategies to manage this tension: like self-regulation skills, or reduce it through developing automaticity, changing beliefs and self-concept. |