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- The study compared two weight loss programs: New Perspectives, which focuses on emotional and psychological factors related to food and body image, and Transforming Your Life, which emphasizes changing habits and the environment.
- Participants included 59 overweight and obese adults who were randomly assigned to one of the two programs for 12 weeks.
- Both programs showed similar results at the end, but those in the Transforming Your Life group were better at maintaining their weight loss over a 6-month follow-up period.
Article Abstract
This study compared treatment outcomes for a new weight loss program that emphasized reducing unhealthy relationships with food, body image dissatisfaction, and internalized weight bias (New Perspectives) to a weight loss program that emphasizes environmental modification and habit formation and disruption (Transforming Your Life). Fifty-nine overweight and obese adults (body mass index ≥ 27 kg/m(2)) were randomly assigned to either a 12-week New Perspectives or Transforming Your Life intervention. Despite equivalent outcomes at the end of treatment, the Transforming Your Life participants were significantly more effective at maintaining their weight loss than New Perspectives participants during the 6-month no-treatment follow-up period.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883879 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105312470156 | DOI Listing |
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