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The latest diet or fitness fad always receives a lot of attention.
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It’s like one pull on a slot machine: very low odds of success.
The Registry has more than 10,000 people in its database.
On average, registered members have dropped 66 pounds and kept the weight off for 5.5 years.
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Now that’s pretty impressive!
TheRegistry’s findingspoint toward commonweight loss habitsyou’ll recognize that have a strong basis in scientific study.
They tend to eat three meals and two snacks per day.
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NWCR participants tend to eatthree meals and two snacksa day, which protects them from overeating.
Science tells us that adopting a consistent refueling pattern like that will benefit weight maintenance.
Maybe it was drinking a glass of water before meals or some other technique.
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They fuel up when they get up.
Eating breakfast is a common habit among the Registry participants.
As a matter of fact, 78% of themnever skip breakfast, according to the NWCR findings.
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The study was smalljust 30 participants.
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They weigh themselves every week.
Seventy-five percent of the Registry participants report that they weigh themselves a minimum of once a week.
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One benefit of weekly weigh-ins is accountability.
Some individuals, however, find stress on the bathroom scaleespecially if progress is slow.
They don’t watch much TV; they get up for some physical activity.
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Sixty-two percent of the Registry participants reported streaming less than 10 hours of television every week.
Being overweight or obese as an adult heightens your risk of developing cancer, according to the WCRFI.
Ninety percent say they exercise about an hour every day.
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That’s a long workout session.
They drink a lot of water.
The biggest losers from the NWCR see to it a glass of water’s never too far away.
Increasing their water intake was by far the most common strategy for losing weight.
They love routine.
A common thread runs through the strategies successfully used by NWCR participants: consistency.
That’s the main takeaway from astudyby Drexel University published inObesity.
Quick and erratic weight loss rarely results in weight maintenance.
So, go slowly, be consistent, and be patient for results.
And remember, what works for a group of people may not work for someone like you.
Then again, it just might.
