the key to weight loss is so simple as to climb on the scale every day.
The men and women who ζυγίζονταν daily lose three times more weight than other people who did a diet, according to a recent study.
Those who ζυγίζονταν seven days a week have lost 6 with 9 pounds in 6 months, much more than the minimum amount of weight loss needed to reduce the risk of heart disease and other diseases.
It is considered that the daily weigh-ins and the monitoring of the weight of us “puts in order” and makes us to cut the everyday irregularities. In addition, we see the weight dropping daily, it’s an incentive to resist more easily to temptations.
In the context of research, 47 overweight men who did diet started to weigh every day for six months. Also they were given a questionnaire at the beginning of the investigation and at the end. The questions were what you ate, how much tv they watched and how much exercise they did. Those who ζυγίζονταν every day lost about 6 to 7 pounds more than those ζυγίζονταν less often.
The analysis showed that those who ζυγίζονταν every day were three times more likely than the others to reduce the number of calories consumed. They were also twice as likely to reduce the snacks and say “no” to the dessert. They have also reduced how much tv they watched.
The researchers, from Duke University in North Carolina, USA, pointed out that the daily weighing may “trigger the processes of self-regulation that promote behavioural change”.
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