Cluster 1 (50.5%): represents a weight-stable, healthy, exercise conscious group who are very satisfied with their current weight.
Cluster 2 (26.9%): has continuously struggled with weight since childhood; they rely on the greatest number of resources and strategies to lose and maintain weight, and report higher levels of stress and depression.
Cluster 3 (12.7%): represents a group successful at weight reduction on the first attempt; they were least likely to be overweight as children, are maintaining the longest duration of weight loss, and report the least difficulty maintaining weight.
Cluster 4 (9.9%): represents a group less likely to use exercise to control weight; they tend to be older, eat fewer meals, and report more health problems.
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.
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 haven't been maintaining long enough to determine it. Shooting for #1. Already yo-yo-ed a couple times so #3 is out.
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.
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.
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! Then I will permanently be a "1".
Patterns of Weight Loss Maintenance
Then I will permanently be a "1".
