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title: "Psych News Alert: Keys to Weight Loss Maintenance Identified"
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# [Psych News Alert: Keys to Weight Loss Maintenance Identified](https://alert.psychnews.org/2011/10/keys-to-weight-loss-maintenance.html)

 Written by [Psychiatric News Alert](https://alert.psychnews.org/author/psychiatric-news-alert) | 10/14/11 4:00 AM

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Write down every food you consume. Eat breakfast every day. Weigh yourself regularly. Count both calories and grams of fat. These are the keys to long-term maintenance of weight loss, according to the latest report from the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) study. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine published a four-year update of the study in the October *Obesity*. The trial has enrolled 5,145 obese patients with type 2 diabetes who will be followed for up to 11.5 years.

“These results provide critical evidence that a comprehensive lifestyle intervention can induce clinically significant weight loss (5 percent or more) in overweight/obese participants with type 2 diabetes and maintain this loss in more than 45 percent of patients at four years,” said the researchers.

For more on weight-loss maintenance, read [*The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance*,](http://www.appi.org/SearchCenter/Pages/SearchDetail.aspx?ItemId=62360.) available from American Psychiatric Publishing . Mood and anxiety disorders are associated with obesity, but the obesity may be the result of the psychotropic medications used to treat mental health disorders. Read more in *[Psychiatric News](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/1/16.1.full)* .

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