More than 5 percent

Red currants, walnuts, & cinnamon
on my morning oatmeal (steel-cut oats)

Maybe you’ve heard that oft-cited statistic that, of all people who go on a weight loss program, 95% regain all that weight. In other words, only 5% succeed at both losing excess weight & keeping it off.

Well, curious about that statistic, the Amazing Shrinking Mom did some investigation, & things look not quite so bleak after all. Looks like that famous 95% stat originated with a particular study of a small sample of dieter in the 1950s, & that it’s been cited unquestioningly ever since. But other, later studies are more optimistic.

For details, see the Amazing Shrinking Mom’s post, “About That Ninety-Five Percent Failure Rate”.