physical activity levels, it might be that exercising at the same time each day fosters a habit. You don’t have to think about it — it’s like brushing your teeth. You just do it.”
Nearly half of American adults surveyed between 2013 and 2016 said they’d tried to lose weight during the prior year, according to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
But 2010 research indicated that only about one in six Americans who has ever been overweight or obese loses weight and keeps it off.
For the new study, Bond and his colleagues evaluated whether time-of-day consistency in moderate to vigorous exercise was related to maintaining those activity levels. All of the study participants were successful weight-loss maintainers in the National Weight Control Registry.
About 68% of participants reported consistently exercising in the same time frame, either early/late morning, afternoon or evening. These
