Diet Fatigue

It is very hard to maintain a weight loss. Dieters are warned, but don't believe it will happen to them when in the first blush of successful weight loss.

"Most research has focused on how best to shed pounds -- not on how to maintain the loss for the long haul. So these days, "we're trying to develop whole programs to study this very point," said Rena Wing, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University School of Medicine and co-director of the National Weight Control Registry, a database of more than 3,000 people who have lost at least 30 pounds and maintained the loss for at least three years."

Story from the Washington Post, September 7.