The article below provide you with information concerning issue about maintenance of weight loss as developed in the 
base of self-regulation theory. This journal was issued on October, 2006 and it was intended to teach maintenance weight loss skills as many dieters have been succesfully achieve for loosing their weight,
According to the article, this maintenance weight loss study was focused on maintenance of weight loss and recruited participants after they had lost a minimum of 10% of their body weight. Then, it was hypothesized that the interventions, delivered face to face or over the Internet, would decrease average weight regain and reduce the proportion of participants who regained 2.3 kg or more during a period of 18 months.
The participants were given and taught a scale of weight-monitoring system to determine whether it needed energy-balance actions or not as an intervention. Concerning the primary goal as stated above, at each assessment, participants were weighed with a calibrated scale while they were wearing light street clothes, and they completed the Paffenbarger Physical Activity Questionnaire and the Block Food Frequency Questionnaire.
Wondering about how the result and the conclusion? Read on complete journal of Maintenance Weight Loss Skills for The Dieters, which is written by Rena R. Wing, Ph.D. and coleagues from Brown Medical School, Miriam Hospital, and and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in their original article: A Self-Regulation Program for Maintenance of Weight Loss (source: nejm.org)
