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If you are looking for a simple strategy to become slim, then start stepping on a scale each day and track the results, a new study says.
In a study spanning over two years, researchers found that self-weighing and tracking results on a chart were effective for both losing weight and keeping it off, especially for men.
“You just need a bathroom scale and an excel spreadsheet or even a piece of graph paper,” said study senior author David Levitsky, professor of nutrition and psychology at Cornell University in the US.
“The method forces you to be aware of the connection between your eating and your weight,” Levitsky said.
In the study, 162 men and women were randomly separated into an intervention group and a control group. Individuals in the intervention group were first given a target of one per cent weight loss, which they could lose in any manner they chose.
“Because, we didn’t prescribe, everyone found their own way of losing the weight, whether they reduced portion size, stopped snacking or skipped a meal, Levitsky added.
Losing one per cent of body weight requires most people to cut only about 150 calories a day for two weeks. Once they maintained that weight loss for 10 days, the programme then gave them a new target to lose another one per cent, and so on. The goal was to lose a total of 10 per cent of their starting body weight.
The researchers found that those who lost weight the first year in the programme were able to maintain that lost weight throughout the second year. There was a significant difference between men and women, with women losing weight on the programme, but far less than the men.
“We think the scale also acts as a priming mechanism, making you conscious of food and enabling you to make choices that are consistent with your weight,” Levitsky added.
The study was published in the Journal of Obesity.
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