Assessment of Satiety and Compliance to High Protein Diets Designed for a Weight Loss Regimen

Protein in the diet is a strong determinant of satiety. The study was conducted on 61 adult women to determine the role of high protein diet in imparting satiety in a weight reducing regimen of three months period. The high protein (HP) diets were more satiety providing as compared to normal protein (NP) diets with average score ranged between 5-7. A significantly (p = 0.05) higher compliance was observed in high protein and exercise (HP+E). The study concluded that group when compared to HP group for breakfast, mid morning and evening tea while compliance for early morning and dinner was significantly (p = 0.05) higher in HP group. NP group had significantly (p = 0.05) lower compliance for four meals i.e. early morning, breakfast, mid morning and post dinner as compared to HP and HP+E group. The study concluded that the satiety scores and compliance of designed high protein diets were higher than the normal protein diet for most of the meals. Therefore, high protein hypocaloric diet is a better approach in weight loss regimen as it imparts more satiety and has better compliance.