daily self-weighing gained weight, according to the study published in the June issue of the journal Obesity.
Other than being told to try to maintain their weight, the self-weighers received no instructions on how to achieve that goal. That meant they had to decide for themselves how to manage their weight.
“Maybe they exercise a little bit more the next day (after seeing a weight increase) or they watch what they are eating more carefully,” study author Jamie Cooper said in a journal news release. “The subjects self-select how they are going to modify their behavior, which can be effective because we know that interventions are not one-size-fits-all.”
Cooper is an associate professor of foods and nutrition at the University of Georgia, in Athens.
The study findings support something known as discrepancy theories of self-regulation, according to
