Researchers say if a person realizes that he is suffering from being overweight, this increases the risk of this person gaining even more weight.

The respective findings were publicized in the International Journal of Obesity monthly.

Researchers have studied the health condition of 14,000 residents of the UK and the US, and found out that the awareness of one’s own weight directly impacts whether or not the given person will be able to lose weight, reported Kommersant newspaper of Russia.

The study has found that if a person realizes that he suffers from obesity, the process of losing weight becomes complicated.

Furthermore, when a person admits to the existence of this problem, he begins to gain weight more actively.