Eating Behavior-Choice or Reconstruction of Past Experience? A Randomized Clinical Trial of Changing Eating Intentions of Healthy Adults Through Hypnotic Suggestions.

Recent meta-analyses have shown that psychological interventions have a small to medium effect on weight loss. We propose here a different approach to changing eating intentions. According to the Free Will literature, people decide to act before they acknowledge it, and they decide based on the reconstruction of previous experiences.

Outcomes and mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral interventions for weight loss: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of CBT in relation to weight loss and related psychological components and to analyze the relationship between alleged cognitive mechanisms of change and weight loss.

Methods: The studies we considered eligible were the randomized clinical trials which included and reported a quantitative assessment of change in weight and of potential cognitive mechanisms of successful change in weight and comparing at least one active CBT intervention with a control for adults.

Results: We included 16 studies (18 contrasts) with a total of 1.