Contrary to popular belief, a history of yo-yo dieting doesn’t affect a person’s ability to lose weight in the future, a new study indicates.
Even if you’ve had problems with losing and regaining weight several times before, it’s never too late to try again, says Anne McTiernan, the study’s senior author and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
“You hear people say, ‘Diets don’t work for me,’ ” but they do work if you use a structure and stick with it,” she says. “The message is: Don’t give up.”
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