Simple weight-loss quiz may pinpoint why some diets fail — and how to boost success

Weight nonaccomplishment tin beryllium highly babelike connected each individual's habits and narration with food.

With this successful mind, caller probe from City St. George’s, University of London, recovered that categorizing radical into "eating profiles" tin assistance radical execute lasting results.

The survey was based connected an online quiz developed by the university, which led participants done 17 questions asking astir their behavioral habits regarding affectional eating, dieting and exercise.

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Quiz-takers were grouped into 4 profiles, oregon phenotypes, based connected their responses: Purple Lavender, Red Chili, Yellow Saffron and Green Sage.

The quiz past offered tailored proposal for gathering a healthier semipermanent lifestyle, including however to instrumentality to idiosyncratic goals, amended dietary choices and incorporated much movement.

The assemblage questionnaire takes behavioral habits into information earlier assigning an eating profile. (iStock)

The U.K. survey participants were enrolled successful a 12-week integer weight-loss program, successful summation to 7 weeks of tailored advice.

Those who took the quiz and identified with a illustration showed "significant" engagement successful the 12-week programme compared to those who did not. They were besides much apt to instrumentality to it, according to the university.

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Quiz-takers besides recorded much meals, communicated with wellness coaches much often and mislaid much value connected average.

"Phenotype-tailored play proposal was associated with substantially higher engagement successful a real-world integer program, though short-term value differences were not statistically significant," the authors concluded successful the study, which was published successful JMIR Formative Research.

Quiz-takers were grouped into 4 profiles, oregon phenotypes, based connected their responses: Purple Lavender, Red Chili, Yellow Saffron and Green Sage. (iStock)

Although the survey was not randomized, followed participants for lone a abbreviated time, and relied connected self-reported weight, the results suggest that adjusting integer weight-loss programs based connected however radical typically devour and behave could assistance much users instrumentality with them, the researchers said.

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Larger, randomized trials with longer follow-ups are "warranted to find whether accrued engagement translates into clinically meaningful value loss," they added.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the survey authors for comment.

Breaking down the 4 eating profiles

According to the researchers, "Red Chili" is characterized by "high maladaptive and hedonic eating, debased self-regulation and precocious intelligence avoidance."

This means Red Chili members whitethorn consciousness their eating is retired of control, usage nutrient to header with antagonistic emotions, consciousness blameworthy astir their eating habits and thin to disregard problems. This radical besides tends to travel restrictive diets, but past overeats erstwhile it doesn’t cookware out.

Those assigned to an eating illustration were much engaged successful losing weight. (iStock)

"Yellow Saffron" is based connected "high hedonic eating and reward reactivity and debased maladaptive eating."

These individuals whitethorn find it hard to defy overeating, take foods based connected sensation alternatively than wellness benefits, and often crave foods precocious successful calories, abdominous and sugar.

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"Purple Lavender" represented "low self-regulation and precocious intelligence avoidance, arsenic good arsenic debased maladaptive and hedonic eating."

This radical tends to acceptable goals and prosecute them temporarily, but whitethorn springiness up upon confronting an obstacle. Purple Lavenders whitethorn suffer enthusiasm aft starting to marque changes and find it hard to continue, arsenic good arsenic disregard problems and challenges.

"Green Sage" is characterized successful the quiz arsenic "low maladaptive and hedonic eating, precocious self-regulation and debased intelligence avoidance."

"There is nary wide mode of eating that suits each person, due to the fact that behaviour and property play specified a role."

These individuals often request wide guidance successful making affirmative manner changes, yet enactment disconnected moving toward goals erstwhile they deficiency motivation.

People successful Green Sage whitethorn thin to not bash the recommended magnitude of carnal enactment for their wellness oregon devour the recommended magnitude of vegetables for their diet, adjacent if they often navigator astatine home.

Experts measurement in

Los Angeles-based registered dietitian-nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein praised the "really intuitive" quiz.

"It truly hits connected the affectional and behavioral broadside of value nonaccomplishment that radical conflict with the most," the California-based adept told Fox News Digital.

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"It did an astonishing occupation erstwhile it identified your eating type, giving you mindset shifts and descriptors connected what to enactment on," she went on. "It’s nary astonishment to maine that it made a important quality successful the information and adherence to the value nonaccomplishment program aboriginal on."

Effective value nonaccomplishment begins with identifying habits and behaviors, experts say. (iStock)

As the results recovered nary important quality astatine the seven-week mark, Muhlstein suggested that this means the researchers "have to enactment connected amended follow-up measures" to assistance radical enactment much consistent.

Certified holistic nutritionist Robin DeCicco added that it "makes sense" to admit habits and behaviors astir nutrient to beforehand value nonaccomplishment and wellness goals.

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"Health is an individualized topic. There is nary wide mode of eating that suits each person, due to the fact that behaviour and property play specified a role," the New York adept told Fox News Digital. 

"Following a generic fare of what to devour and what to debar doesn’t effect successful immoderate benignant of meaningful alteration unless property types, behaviors and habits are addressed."