It was found that, across the board, mindfulness was “moderately to largely effective in reducing weight loss and improving obesity-related eating behaviours.”
However, at follow-up evaluations after several weeks from the interventions, participants who used mindfulness techniques continued to shed excess pounds steadily, bringing their mean weight loss to 3.5 percent.
Study participants who were not performing mindfulness practices did not lose any more weight; in fact, some participants ended up gaining more pounds that they had initially shed.
These results are encouraging to the researchers, and many are wondering how much more effective weight loss programs may be with the addition of mindfulness practices.