Consistent Self-monitoring of Weight: A Key Component of Successful Weight Loss Maintenance**
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Consistent self-monitoring of weight: a key component of successful weight loss maintenance.
OBJECTIVE The objectives were to investigate the characteristics associated with frequent self-weighing and the relationship between self-weighing and weight loss maintenance. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Participants (n = 3003) were members of the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) who had lost >or=30 lbs, kept it off for >or=1 year, and had been administered the self-weighing freque...
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عنوان ژورنال: Obesity
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1930-7381,1930-739X
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.368