Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer vacation — a season of potato salad, ice cream and, if you’re not careful, unwanted weight gain.
But it is possible to avoid packing on the pounds. Just hop on the scale every day, researchers suggest.
The new study included 111 U.S. adults, who weighed themselves every day from mid-November 2017 to early January 2018 and received feedback on their weight changes.
The participants either maintained or lost weight during that end-of-year holiday season. A “control group” of adults who did not do