Get out of depression to lose weight

Want to lose those few extra pounds then you need to improve your mood.This was suggested by the recent study and being obese also makes the person to enter the state of depression.Everyone knows how depression can affect your day to day activities and obviously your desired weight loss can't be achieved.

The recent study also found that "Increased physical activity leads to improvement in depression and improvement in depression leads to increased physical activity.We see in our study that they go together, but we can't say which causes which.


Simon and his colleagues evaluated 203 women ages 40 to 65 with an average body mass index(BMI) of 38.3. Participants underwent baseline tests to measure their weight, depression score, physical activity and food intake.

They placed the women into two treatment groups — one focused on weight loss and the other focused on both weight loss and depression. Both interventions included up to 26 group sessions over 12 months, and researchers followed up on participants at six, 12 and 24 months after enrollment.

The researchers found the most significant changes happened in the first six months and then remained stable afterwards. At six months, among the women who had at least a one-half point decrease on the Hopkins Symptom Checklist depression score, 38 per cent lost at least 5 per cent of their body weight. This compared with 21 per cent of the women who lost the same amount but had no decrease — or an increase — in their depression score.


When getting enrolled into a weight loss program we should make sure that screening is done for any cases of depression has to be made lead to both physical and psychological well-being.