A new study indicates that the practices that help people to lose weight and the practices that help them keep it off do not overlap much.

No one announces to a dieter, 'You're moving into the weight-maintenance stage. You'll have to do things differently,' said lead author Christopher Sciamanna, M.D. His group investigated whether two distinct sets of behaviors and thought patterns were involved in weight loss and its maintenance.



Practices associated with successful weight loss only were:



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