In doing this, we can help them to develop the necessary skills to cope successfully with dietary temptations and prevent lapses, he added.
Researchers monitored the social and environmental factors that make people, who are following weight management programs, cheat.
Eighty people who were either part of a weight-loss group or were dieting on their own participated in the one-week study.
They were given cell phones on which they kept an electronic diary of all the temptations that came their way and the situations during which they gave in to these temptations.
