Weight Loss Success Techniques

The world is full of weight loss tips. Some are based on scientific data but perhaps the most interesting tips you can get come from the very core of the issue: the weight losers themselves. The School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado-Denver founded the National Weight Control Registry -- a project investigating the long-term successful weight loss maintenance. It is currently tracking over 5000 dieters who have lost more than 30 lb. and managed to keep it off for a year or more. Some of the finding can be summed up as tips that can be useful for other people's weight loss. Successful weight losers:

• eat average 5 meals a day
• keep diary for better self-control, stress reduction, and calorie counting
• learn how to eat right
• plan to stick with their way of eating for the rest of their life
• do not go to extremes
• do not eat while not being hungry
• drink a glass of water before concluding that you are hungry
• walk for at least one hour a day, most of the days