Patterns of Weight Loss Maintenance
 

From Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes:

Just wondering which group various maintainers on this forum think they fit into.

I would say that when I was losing weight, I was in Cluster 1, but looking back over the past year and a half, I've had a series of personal challenges and now I would put myself in Cluster 2 (with emphasis on stress and depression). I didn't struggle with weight during childhood; my struggle began at puberty, which was a very stressful time in my life.

Mostly cluster 1.

Cluster No. 2, hands down, no doubt, if I modify the sentence -- interestingly, just as you did, Pageta -- to change "childhood" to "puberty."

That's really hard to say. I rule out #1 because I don't exercise like I should. I rule out #2 because I don't have any depression. I kind of rule out #3 because I wasn't that much overweight as a child (chunky at times maybe) and because I do have difficulty maintaining. #4 seems closest except I don't have health problems and I really like eating.

I guess you just can't fit everyone into every model!

I really wanna be in cluster 1 and maybe I am there right now. I'm afraid my life history would place me in cluster 2, however. I was overweight as a child and I tend to use a lot of active strategies and resources to cope- I am working HARD at maintaining.

I posted at Dr Sharma's last night. I'm in Cluster 1, and I agree with the poster (over there) who said maintenance requires a degree of obsession.

It's interesting that a few of us are skeptical about the NWCR's methodology.

I haven't been maintaining long enough to determine it. Shooting for #1. Already yo-yo-ed a couple times so #3 is out.

I think I'm cluster 1. I always feel like I could do better, but I'm pretty satisfied where I am and I definitely eat and exercise with care.

Me, too, except I have yo-yo'd several times. I would have chosen #2, except I wasn't really overweight until I hit my 20's. My obsessiveness tends to fit #2 better than #1, although I am currently satisfied with my weight and I exercise a lot.

I'm mostly a cluster 2.....

Just popping in to say--I don't fit any of the "clusters." I didn't start having weight problems until adulthood, I maintained my weight loss in 2007 for two years, and then I began slowly regaining. I am beginning to think that this is the "norm" and that all those clusters are artificial and based on questionable assumptions.

Thanks for listening. Bye again.

JayEll, are you my long lost twin ? I couldn't find myself in the clusters , either. I was not a fat child, I didn't have weight problems until I had been married and had a child. I was successful at my first try at weight reduction but it didn't last.

I have been a "2" for most of my life. I was a "1" for a couple of years and now I've slid back into "2". I think I will probably waffle back and forth between these two states for the rest of my life.

Unless I win the lottery! :p Then I will permanently be a "1".

Dagmar :dizzy:

cluster 1, (I'm fit, happy, healthy & pretty damn content with my bod & my weight) :)
What, no cluster F'cks? ;)

I was wondering the same thing? I don't feel like I fit into any cluster. Maybe I'm the clusterf*%k?:^: