Research Article
The Effect of Adherence to Dietary Tracking on Weight Loss: Using HLM to Model Weight Loss over Time
Table 1
Descriptive statistics across the 3 tracking groups: rare (<33% of days tracked,
), inconsistent (33–66%,
), and consistent (>66%,
).
| | Rare | Inconsistent | Consistent |
| | Gender | M = 7, F = 18 | M = 1, F = 4 | M = 5, F = 10 | | College graduate | 17 | 2 | 3 | | Income | | Missing = 1 | Missing = 1 | | <25k | 4 | 1 | 3 | | 25–50k | 7 | 0 | 9 | | 50–75k | 5 | 1 | 2 | | 75–100k | 6 | 0 | 0 | | >100k | 3 | 2 | 0 | | Mean days tracked (s.d.) | 43.2 (25.2) | 166.6 (30.2) | 294.9 (42.0) | | Mean baseline weight in pounds (s.d.) | 225.8 (44.6) | 205.5 (71.9) | 202.3 (52.6) | | Mean weight loss in pounds (s.d.) | −4.6 (7.7) | −4.1 (16.1) | −8.5 (12.9) | | Mean baseline HbA1c (s.d.) | 6.97 (1.32) | 6.86 (2.22) | 6.65 (1.21) | | Mean baseline BMI (s.d.) | 36.4 (6.3) | 34.9 (9.4) | 34.2 (7.6) |
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M = males; F = females; s.d. = standard deviation.
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