The commitments we made on the first day of the year 2017, it is very common to end very quickly.
The most recent one is the New Year's Day, the 2nd place in the 'exercise / diet' January 1, the day after the pledge, if the plan was practiced today (2 days) is the last month to commit the new year. Is it well kept?
If you can not keep it, write it once. That alone can change you.
■ Just record
In November, a study was published in the scientific journal "Scientific Reports," the sister magazine of Nature, the world's leading scientific weekly.
Just recording the frequency and content of the meal will actually help you lose weight.
The team of Kyung Hee University Hospital Sang-Yeol Lee analyzed the 35,381 people who recorded diet and weight for at least 6 months through a weight management app from October, 2012 to April, 2014, It has even proven to be far superior to other methods of managing obesity, including medication. Let's take a closer look at the study.
■ At the core, "Write once!" The researchers carefully tracked the participants' gender, age, height, and weight along with the frequency of breakfast, lunch, and dinner and what they ate.
It made it possible for the participants to calculate the calories possible and write down what they did during the day.
It includes simply walking and climbing the stairs, along with reduced calorie counts. I also checked and recorded my weight from time to time.
The study found that 77.9% of theparticipants were successful in weight loss, and 23% of them lost more than 10% of their weight.
■ Recording will determine success not calorires
This study once again reminds you that recording and adjusting your lifestyle is important to your diet.
Checking your weight, recording your workout and diet is a "first step in your diet."
Among them, the most remarkable thing is that "frequent recording of dinner contents" is the most important factor in determining the success or failure of diet.
Even more surprising was the high and low calories in the dinner did not affect the diet.
In other words, in order to succeed in a diet, it is important to periodically record what you have eaten than what you eat.
Although the calories burned by the study participants could be inaccurate, the caloric intake of the dinner did not have a significant effect on the diet, the researchers report.
I also explained that frequent recording of dinner was the most important factor in suppressing yo-yo phenomenon.
■ There is a limit ... Reaffirming the Importance of Lifestyle
Of course, there are limitations to this study. The randomized selection of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), but there is a limit to the possibility that researchers' involvement can intervene in the inference of results.
Also, there is no comparable control group. Randomized controlled trials have a moderate level of scientific evidence.
However, Professor Sang-yeol explains that the significance of life habits emphasized in obesity management has been confirmed once again through this analytical study.
The key is that weight loss can be achieved simply by checking the weight continuously and recording the diet without the exact calorie count.