Physical Activity Is Key To Maintaining Weight Loss, Not Diet, Study Indicates.

reports on a study published in Obesity, which found that being “very physically active rather than restricting calories appears to be key to keeping the pounds from creeping back after successful weight loss.” In a group of 25 middle-aged people who had lost an average of 58 pounds and “kept it off for nine years,” as compared to “similar people who had normal or excess weight,” the study found that the people who kept excess weight off “were much more physically active. On average, they took 12,107 steps/day, much more than the 8935 steps/day in the normal-weight group and the 6477 steps/day in the overweight/obese group.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22373