Adherence
A MyPlate-based dietary intervention, which prioritizes high-satiety foods (fruits and vegetables) and eliminates calorie counting, is expected to yield greater long-term satiety and better sustained weight loss compared to a traditional Calorie Counting (CC) approach.
Instead of counting every calorie, focus on filling half your plate with minimally processed fruits and vegetables at every meal. This approach uses the natural volume and fiber of these foods to keep you full (satiated) longer, making it easier to maintain a healthy weight without the mental burden of strict portion control or hunger.
The MyPlate high-satiety/high-satiation approach to desirable weight loss was expected to yield increasing satiety over time... its initial rate of weight loss was expected to be slower but better sustained than the weight loss obtained through calorie restriction.
Why this rating
This is a study design paper describing baseline characteristics and protocol; it does not report final intervention outcomes or statistical significance of the comparison.
Source
Comparative effectiveness trial comparing MyPlate to calorie counting for mostly low-income Latino primary care patients of a federally qualified community health center: study design, baseline characteristics
Lillian Gelberg et al. · BMC Public Health · 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12889-019-7294-z
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