> The results at year eight are heartening. Eight years later and 50.3 percent of the intensive lifestyle intervention group and 35.7 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥5 percent, while 26.9 percent of the intensive group and 17.2 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥10 percent.
The idea of "heartening" by an obesity doctor was that half of people lost a largely imperceptible amount of weight.
This was considered success at the time.
For comparison, to be on the edge of normal weight from the edge of obese is a 16% reduction.
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> The results at year eight are heartening. Eight years later and 50.3 percent of the intensive lifestyle intervention group and 35.7 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥5 percent, while 26.9 percent of the intensive group and 17.2 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥10 percent.
The idea of "heartening" by an obesity doctor was that half of people lost a largely imperceptible amount of weight.
This was considered success at the time.
For comparison, to be on the edge of normal weight from the edge of obese is a 16% reduction.