2021-11-21 14:59:11-05
HOLIDAY WEIGHT GAIN
A Big Fat Lie?
A festive meal every day and lots of biscuits, gingerbread, sweets, and alcohol: Losing weight at Thanksgiving or keeping your weight during the holidays can be a challenge.
But long-term weight gain during the holidays is a fat, ugly myth! Yes, you can gain as much as five pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's. But the weight gain really comes after the holidays, when people don't drop the pounds gained, according to recent study. People who were overweight or obese to begin with were more likely to gain five pounds or more, according to the study, which appeared in a March 2000 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Yet, the days between Thanksgiving and New Years are exciting times with all the festivities, family get-togethers and scrumptious dinners. A current weight loss study now shows how you can do just that and not gain a few pounds from holiday feasting.
"Daily Self-Weighing to Prevent Holiday-Associated Weight Gain in Adults" is the title of the study, which was published in the journal "Obesity - A Research Journal". The authors of the study, Sepideh Kaviani, Michelle van Dellen and Jamie A. Cooper examined 111 people and their weight history. The study participants were divided into two groups. One group had to weigh themselves daily from Thanksgiving to the start of the new year. For this everyone received a smart scale. The goal: to actually maintain the starting weight. The other group was the control group, which did not have to watch out for their weight.
Hold the weight? Then off to the scales at Thanksgiving!
The results speak for themselves: the participants who weighed themselves daily maintained their weight for the most...Read More
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