Long-term treatment of obese patients shows that the majority of them regains weight or has weight cycling (WC). We have studied the frequency of WC (weight lost and regain of at least 5% of initial weight, IW) in 218 obese women selected from a University Hospital with a follow-up of >12 months admitted between 1992 and 2000. Patients with psychiatric, infectious or chronic disease (except metabolic syndrome), pregnancy, or using glucocorticoids were excluded. Mean age was 38±10 years (range 18 […]