The aim of the intensive LSVT BIG training is improve people's ability to make bigger movements. These movements can then be generalized for different functional activities and situations.
However, research has shown that approximately 20% of overweight individuals are successful at long-term weight loss when defined as losing at least 10% of initial body weight and maintaining the loss for at least 1 y.he National Weight Control Registry provides information about the strategies used by successful weight loss maintainers to achieve and maintain long-term weight loss. National Weight Control Registry members have lost an average of 33 kg and maintained the loss for more than 5 y.
People in the weight gain prevention group who weighed themselves less than once a day tended to gain rather than lose weight during the study. Daily weighers in the weight loss group lost twice as much weight as weekly weighers -- an average of 12 pounds vs. 6, Linde says.