A trick to help you lose weight in 2016

Step on the scale to lose weight!

Research from The University of Manchester found that the more often people use digital weighing scales, the more weight they lose.

Over 900 people studied

The findings, which are based on data gathered over a period of four years with 975 public participants, showed that the users who interacted the most with their internet-enabled scales were also the ones that lost the equivalent of an extra 1.13kg in men and 0.925kg in women, over 12 months.

Using digital scales and connected health technology

The study was conducted in partnership with Withings, a French manufacturer of connected-health technology, who gathered the anonymised data from a random sample of their UK-based Smart Scale customers.

"In this study we wanted to know more about the ways that engagement with weighing scales indicates the users' behaviour, something that is only possible with recent advances in technology,”  said lead researcher, Dr Matthew Sperrin, Lecturer in Health Data Science at The University of Manchester's Health eResearch Centre.

“By working with Withings we were able to spot a strong correlation between self-weighing and weight-loss, particularly that the more a patient weighed themselves, the more weight they were shown to lose.”

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