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Self-weighing in excess weight prevention and weight loss trials.
BACKGROUND:
Although self-monitoring is actually a central tenet of behavioral strategies to changing health behavior, public and clinical health strategies for better controlling weight will not emphasize weight self-monitoring.
PURPOSE:
The goal was to evaluate if more frequent self-weighing exerts a confident affect on fat loss or an increase in weight prevention.
METHODS:
This research examined cross-longitudinal and sectional associations between self-weighing weight and frequency in just two distinct groups: 1,226 adults who are signed up for a an increase in weight prevention trial, and 1,800 adults who are signed up for a weight loss trial.
RESULTS:
While the samples differed significantly in baseline and weight demographic characteristics, the distribution of baseline weighing frequencies failed to differ by study. In groups, more frequent self-weighing at baseline was linked to greater age, lower fat intake, White ethnicity, current nonsmoking status, an increased reputation of dieting to lose excess weight, minimizing current bmi. Despite similar weighing instructions, differential patterns of weighing frequency after a while were observed: Fat loss dieters increased weighing after a while no matter what treatment group (control or intervention), whereas an increase in weight preventers decreased weighing after a while from the control group and increased weighing after a while in intervention groups. Most critical, higher weighing frequency was linked to greater 24-month fat loss or less an increase in weight.
CONCLUSIONS:
Results support the idea that daily weighing is valuable to individuals attempting to lose weight or prevent an increase in weight. Daily self-weighing must be emphasized in public and clinical health messages about weight control. Experimental studies about the negative effects of weighing frequency over these contexts are recommended.