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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 24.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Oct;40(10):1781–1788. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31817d8176

Table 2.

Body weight and changes in weight at 6- and 12-month following completion of weight loss interventions by intervention group.

Variables DIET DIET+LO-EX DIET+HI-EX overall
End of intervention
   Weight, kg 79.5±11.3 75.1±8.5 79.3±9.8 77.9±9.8
6-month following intervention
   Weight, kg 82.3±13.7 79.0±9.5 81.4±11.7 80.8±11.4
   Δ from end of intervention, kg 2.7±3.8 3.9±3.0* 2.1±3.0 2.9±3.3*
   % change 3.2±4.5 5.1±4.2 2.5±3.6 3.6±4.1
12-month following intervention
   Weight, kg 84.2±14.4 81.4±9.6 83.7±14.2 83.1±12.5
   Δ from end of intervention, kg 4.7±5.4 6.3±2.4* 4.4±6.6 5.2±5.0*
   % change 5.7±6.6 8.4±3.1 5.3±7.3 6.5±5.9

DIET, diet only; DIET+EX-LO, diet plus low-intensity exercise; DIET+EX-HI, diet plus high-intensity exercise. No between group differences in weight regained during follow-up.

*

p < 0.001 comparing with end of intervention

p < 0.05 comparing with end of intervention