Losing and «maintaining» body weight is a well-known inequity in the prevention of chronic noncommunicable diseases

Today, there are many programs for weight loss, including both evidence-based approaches and «newfangled» methods. They are associated with myths about the impossibility of «holding» body weight at the achieved optimal level after the stage of adherence to a particular strategy. The results of large prospective studies have confirmed the possibility of maintaining body weight within a 10% reduction from baseline over a period of 1 year up to 10 years. Among the predictors of effective weight maintenance are individual cognitive factors and a number of features of nutritional interventions. The review provides an analysis of the results of clinical studies that study the effectiveness of weight loss in terms of maintaining the achieved weight in the long term. © 2022, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved.