Table 3 Frequency of Diets Initiated in the Previous Year, by Weight Loss Success Group1
From: Who will lose weight? A reexamination of predictors of weight loss in women
Most Successful | Intermediate | Least Successful | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of diets | Freq. | % | Cum.% | Freq. | % | Cum.% | Freq. | % | Cum.% |
0 | 25 | 58 | 58 | 24 | 52 | 52 | 10 | 25 | 25 |
1 | 7 | 16 | 74 | 10 | 22 | 74 | 14 | 34 | 59 |
2 | 8 | 19 | 93 | 6 | 13 | 87 | 6 | 15 | 73 |
3+ | 3 | 7 | 100 | 6 | 13 | 100 | 11 | 27 | 100 |
Weight loss (kg) | |||||||||
Mean | -6.3 | -2.7 | 0.3 | ||||||
SD | 2.1 | 1.0 | 1.7 | ||||||