Friday, July 13, 2012

Weight-Loss Keys: Food Journals, Eating In, Not Skipping Meals

If you are trying to lose weight, adopting three key strategies will boost your chances of success, new research suggests.

 Keep a food journal, avoid eating out often and don't skip meals.

 "Greater food-journal use predicted better weight-loss outcomes, whereas skipping meals and eating out more frequently were associated with less weight loss," writes Dr. Anne McTiernan, a research professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle. In the new study, she and her colleagues looked at a wide range of behaviors and meal patterns to evaluate what works and what doesn't.

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