{"id":1203,"date":"2008-09-13T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/social-support-promotes-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T17:01:26","slug":"social-support-promotes-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/social-support-promotes-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Support Promotes Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social support is defined as the encouragement and help provided to you by other people.\u00a0 Studies have shown that social support plays a major role in helping individuals lose and maintain weight loss, suggesting that support enhances the dieter\u2019s feelings of control and confidence.\u00a0 Social support can come from family members, your spouse or significant other, close friends<\/a>, or coworkers.\u00a0 Studies also have shown that the more social support a person receives, the better the weight loss results.\"weight<\/p>\n

In a study that examined what happened when friends joined and participated in a group weight-loss program<\/a> together.\u00a0 Both weight loss and maintenance was better with the people who had social support compared to those individuals who participated in the program on their own. Social support can help you lose weight, but negative social support can definitely bring you down and interfere with your goal.\u00a0 You can suffer from the negativity and not lose any weight or gain the weight back.<\/p>\n

*It is important to surround yourself with positive people that focus more on how your feeling rather then the number\/total pounds you\u2019ve lost\u2026 you should never focus on the pounds lost! So, it is really important for you as the dieter, as the individual that is trying to lead a healthier life, that you are aware of the people you surround yourself with.\u00a0 Do your best to have positive, encouraging, uplifting people around you.\u00a0 Not those that make low-blow comments that are trying to bring you down for whatever reason (possibly due to their insecurity).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social support is defined as the encouragement and help provided to you by other people.\u00a0 Studies have shown that social support plays a major role in helping individuals lose and maintain weight loss, suggesting that support enhances the dieter\u2019s feelings … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[31,29],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-health-news","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}