Table 2.
Percentage of Total Minutes/Day Contributed by Individual Activities in 1997, Stratified by Success of Weight Loss Maintenance, Among 4,558 US Premenopausal Womena
| All Women (n = 4,558) | Maintainers of Weight Loss by 1997 (n = 934) | Nonmaintainers of Weight Loss by 1997 (n = 3,624) | |
| Slow walking | 7.9 | 7.5 | 8 |
| Brisk walking | 8.5 | 10.8 | 8 |
| Jogging/running | 1.7 | 2.9 | 1.4 |
| Other activitiesb | 16.7 | 20.3 | 15.6 |
| TV watching | 65.2 | 58.5 | 67 |
a
Successful long-term weight loss maintainers were those who lost >5% of their baseline weight in 1989 and did not regain >30% of the lost weight between 1991 and 1997.
b
Other activities include biking, swimming, lawn mowing, aerobics, tennis, and stair climbing.