Mary Lou Klem

TL;DR: The National Weight Control Registry identified a large sample of individuals who were highly successful at maintaining weight loss and indicated that weight loss led to improvements in their level of energy, physical mobility, general mood, self-confidence, and physical health.

TL;DR: The authors identified predictors of weight gain versus continued maintenance among individuals already successful at long-term weight loss and found that several years of successful weight maintenance increase the probability of future weight maintenance and that weight regain is due at least in part to failure to maintain behavior changes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used literature searches to determine whether video games may be useful in improving health outcomes and found that video games improved 69% of psychological therapy outcomes and 59% of physical therapy outcomes, 50% physical activity outcomes, 46% of clinician skills outcomes, 42% of health education outcomes, and 37% of disease selfmanagement outcomes.

TL;DR: Eating breakfast is a characteristic common to successful weight loss maintainers and may be a factor in their success, and breakfast eaters reported slightly more physical activity than non-breakfast eaters.

TL;DR: It would appear that long-term weight maintenance requires ongoing adherence to a low-fat diet and an exercise regimen in addition to continued attention to body weight.