New information on keeping fat and weight off....

Today's Post: Tuesday, 7-5-2011

Researchers at Penn State found that people who lost 10 percent of their weight or more and kept it off for a year or more did two specific things that were different from losing the fat in the first place. And, the people who gained all or part of it back did not do these two things.

The people who succeeded, continued to remind themselves that they were committed to keeping off the fat AND the reasons for doing it.

And, they found ways to reward themselves for doing so.

Other researchers who were familiar with people who succeeded in keeping off lost fat, added some other things when they commented on the new research.

A comment I thought well of was this one. (I list both the related parts.)

Robert Jeffery, director of the Obesity Prevention Center at the University of Minnesota said:

“….differences may be more a matter not of what people do, but how diligently they do it.” &

“"We have information on people who have successfully lost large amounts of weight and kept it up for a long time.

They exercise a lot more than most people do, and they eat a lot healthier diets than most people do." “

The overall picture is that people who lose fat and keep it off, do the same things people do who succeed at anything else.

They make permanent lifestyle upgrades instead of temporary fixes.

They use experimental persistence and quality control to keep improving and stop actions and results that are going the wrong way.

They keep trying new upgrades and keep what works or do more of it and discard things that make things worse.

They also make what they eat and the exercise they get support good health and come close to doing that all the time.

They add protecting their health and living a health sustaining lifestyle part of their self-image.

The new research also stresses the importance of finding ways to live a varied and rewarding life and still keep their focus.

They become expert at finding things that support their health and fat loss that also are really tasty and good to eat. They keep expanding that knowledge. They become skilled at recovering from treats that were not quite as health supporting. And, they become skilled at having the treats that are fattening in excess that they like most – but doing so far less often than people who stay fat.

They keep learning new things in this area and keep trying improvements and making corrections.

This is why people who have strong and regular support for losing fat and keeping it off have double or more the success rate of people who don’t. (They have an ongoing way to be reminded and get help overcoming problems and get new and promising information to try.)

But it also suggests something new. It also looks as if having strong and regular support for protecting your health and living a health sustaining lifestyle IN ADDITION TO fat loss support might double your success rate again!

(Maintaining fat loss protects your health. And, the lifestyle that protects your health also helps lose fat and keep it off.)

We aim to provide both of these with this blog.

But we are also working on two resource and interactive service sites to provide each of these two kinds of support in a far more focused way.

They will also make it easier to customize the information so it fits you well.