Trial reportObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2010
Perception of exercise difficulty predicts weight regain in formerly overweight women.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Determinants of weight loss maintenance: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019Pooled it
- Metabolic adaptation is an illusion, only present when participants are in negative energy balance.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Trial
- Strength plus Endurance Training and Individualized Diet Reduce Fat Mass in Overweight Subjects: A Randomized Clinical Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Ease of walking associates with greater free-living physical activity and reduced depressive symptomology in breast cancer survivors: pilot randomized trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2018Trial
- Perceived Exertion during Exercise Is Associated with Children's Energy Intake.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2017Trial
- Frequency of combined resistance and aerobic training in older women.Journal of strength and conditioning research · 2013Trial
- Psychological and physiological moderators of perceived exertion in aerobics: a repeated-measures study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Changes in Trunk, but Not Limb, Lean Body Mass Contribute to Variability in Metabolic Adaptation Following Weight Loss.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- Revisiting the Compensatory Theory as an explanatory model for relapse in obesity management.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Metabolic adaptation is not a major barrier to weight-loss maintenance.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Potential health effects of dietary nitrate supplementation in aging and chronic degenerative disease.Medical hypotheses · 2020Article
- Adaptations to exercise in compensators and noncompensators in the E-MECHANIC Trial.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2020Article
- Obesity Treatment Among Adolescents: A Review of Current Evidence and Future Directions.JAMA pediatrics · 2020Review
- Ratings of Perceived Exertion During Walking Predicts Endurance Independent of Physiological Effort in Older Women.Journal of strength and conditioning research · 2020Article
- Mechanisms of weight regain after weight loss - the role of adipose tissue.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2019Review
- Why intensity is not a bad word: Optimizing health status at any age.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2018Review
- Implementation Intention for Initiating Intuitive Eating and Active Embodiment in Obese Patients Using a Smartphone Application.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Article
- Physiological Effort in Submaximal Fitness Tests Predicts Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Men with Prostate Cancer in a Weight Loss Trial.International journal of cancer and clinical research · 2017Article
- Exertional dyspnoea in obesity.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2016Review
- Greater effects of high- compared with moderate-intensity interval training on cardio-metabolic variables, blood leptin concentration and ratings of perceived exertion in obese adolescent females.Biology of sport · 2016Article
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Abstract
It has been previously reported that overweight and obese individuals perceive exercise as more difficult than their lean counterparts, and this difference may not be solely attributed to physiological differences. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that individual differences in the perception of exercise difficulty during exercise, independent of concurrently measured physiological markers of exertion, are predictive of weight regain, after completion of a weight loss program. A total of 113 formerly overweight women who had previously completed a weight-loss program to achieve a normal body weight (BMI <25 kg/m(2)) underwent a submaximal aerobic exercise task while measures of physiological and perceived exertion (rating of perceived exertion (RPE)) were recorded. Weight gain was assessed following a subsequent 1-year free-living period. Average weight regain 1 year following the intervention was 5.46 +/- 3.95 kg. In regression modeling, RPE (beta = 0.21, P = 0.01), but not physiological exertion (beta = 0.02, P = 0.81), during the submaximal exercise task was positively associated with 1-year weight regain following weight loss in premenopausal women, independent of measured confounding variables. The association between RPE and weight regain suggests that perception of exercise difficulty is an important predictor of weight regain following a weight-loss intervention.
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