How you think about your body, it turns out, has a big influence on the success of weight loss efforts. Science Daily reports that researchers from the Technical University of Lisbon and Bangor University enrolled overweight women on a year-long weight loss program. Half the women were given general health information about good nutrition, stress management, and the importance of looking after yourself. The other half attended 30 weekly group sessions (the intervention plan) where issues such as exercise, emotional eating, improving body image and the recognition of, and how to overcome, personal barriers to weight loss and lapses from the diet were discussed. Those women on the behavioral intervention plan women found that the way they thought about their body improved and that concerns about body shape and size were reduced. They also lost more weight than the control group: 7 percent for those whose body image improved compared to 2 percent for the control group.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
100% true. Come on folks “think” yourself healthy!