- In This Article
- Overview
- Six secrets of the slim
- Realistic expectations
- What you can do
- Healthy and cheap
- Stay-thin strategies
- Downturn diet
- View all product dieting on a budget
Stay-thin strategies
Lifetime weight history
Successful losers and the always thin do a lot of the same things—and they do them more frequently than failed dieters do. For the dietary strategies below, numbers reflect those who said they ate that way at least five days a week, a key tipping point, our analysis found. (Differences of less than 4 percentage points are not statistically meaningful.)
Lifetime weight history
Failed dieters
Overweight and have tried to lose, but still close to highest weight.
Always thin
Never overweight.
Successful losers
Once overweight but now at least 10 percent lighter, and have kept pounds off for at least three years.
Posted: January 2009 — Consumer Reports Magazine issue: February 2009
