A Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:49:09 -0500, "JMA"
escribió:
I'm not sure on the research, bicker would know better than me, but I
personally think that how long you did the liquid before transitioning to a
low calorie plan with regular food has a lot to do with your long term
effects.

From what I've experienced and read, I believe it is
actually more a matter of how formal the transition to
maintenance is.

VLCDs work best for the morbidy obese precisely because they
are relatively easy to maintain for the period of
weight-loss. However, they're subject to the same pressures
of regain from reverting back to previous (bad) eating and
lifestyle behaviors as other diet regimens. VLCDs have
typically taken their advantage, in that they're generally
taken more seriously by their patients (due to the higher
risks from the regimen itself), to apply significant
behavioral re-training into the weight-loss support.
Behavioral re-training is the key to effectiveness with
respect to maintenance, regardless of the approach taken.



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