After six months, the women who used daily texting lost an average of nearly 3 pounds, while another group of women who used traditional methods to keep food and exercise diaries gained an average of 2.5 pounds, according to the study, which was published online Nov. 18 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. “Text messaging has become ubiquitous and may be an effective method to simplify tracking of diet garcinia cambogia extract and exercise behaviors,” study author Dori Steinberg, a postdoctoral obesity researcher in the Duke Obesity Prevention Program, said in a university news release. Steinberg said text messaging offers several advantages compared to other self-monitoring methods. Unlike Web-based diet and exercise diaries, data in a text message can be entered quickly on nearly all cellphone platforms. This provides more portability, nearly real-time tracking and more accessibility for receiving tailored feedback.
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I used to live to eat, constantly thinking about what my next meal would be and when I could eat it. Now I eat to live; food is the fuel I put in my body so I can live my life. Food is not my life, it does not define my life. My surgery was done by a bariatric surgeon at Bay Area Surgical Specialists at the John Muir Medical Center in Concord.
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