Get the habits right

This is an interesting report of a study looking at how teaching people to eat at maintenance - neither gaining nor losing - can have big benefits for long term weight control.

Mastering weight-maintenance skills before embarking on diet helps women avoid backsliding

women who spent eight weeks mastering weight-maintenance skills before embarking on a weight-loss program shed the same number of pounds as women who started a weight-loss program immediately. More importantly, the study showed that the "maintenance-first" women had regained only 3 pounds on average a year later, compared to the average 7-pound gain for the immediate dieters.

Very interesting.  A lot of this chimes with Lyle McDonald's ideas.

So much of weight control is psychological, learning habits....