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Adherence

The long-term mental health and quality of life benefits of an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) for type 2 diabetes do not persist after the intervention is terminated; participants revert to baseline risk levels comparable to a control group.

If you stop the structured support of a lifestyle program, your mental health and quality of life benefits will likely erate over time, even if you maintain some weight loss. To keep the psychological benefits, you need a long-term maintenance plan, not just an initial intensive phase.

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Prior participation in the ILI, compared with the DSE group, did not appear to improve subsequent mood or HRQOL during 6 years of postintervention follow-up.
Thomas A. Wadden et al. · Obesity · 2021

Why this rating

Large randomized controlled trial (Look AHEAD) with long-term follow-up, though observational post-intervention phase.

Source

Changes in mood and health‐related quality of life in Look AHEAD 6 years after termination of the lifestyle intervention

Thomas A. Wadden et al. · Obesity · 2021

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