Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

	Maintainers	Regainers
Number of subjects	14	23
Mean age	40.4	43.7
Employed	12 (85%)	18 (82%)
Marital status
Single	7 (50%)	9 (39%)
Married	2 (14%)	9 (39%)
Widowed	0	2 (9%)
Divorced	5 (36%)	3 (13%)
Highest level of education
Less than high school	0	0
High school graduate	0	5 (22%)
Some college	4 (29%)	11 (48%)
College graduate	7 (50%)	5 (22%)
Graduate school	3 (21%)	2 (8%)
Mean start weight	234.3*	191.1*
Mean weight loss	59.5*	37.1*
Mean percent weight loss	22%*	19%*
Mean current weight	179.6	218.2
Mean BMI	29.5†	36.0‡

*Data missing on one maintainer participant and one regainer participant.

^†Only 4 of the 14 maintainers have a BMI of less than 25. Five are obese by BMI and one is morbidly obese with a BMI of 46.32. Without including her in the calculation of mean BMI, the mean is 28.20.

^‡One regainer participant had a BMI within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines’ normal range of 18.5 to 24.9 (23.01).⁵⁴