Clues to maintaining calorie restriction? Psychosocial profiles of successful long-term restrictors.

ABSTRACT: To combat the obesity epidemic, interventions and treatments often recommend low-calorie dieting. Calorie restriction (CR) as a weight intervention, however, is often unsuccessful, as most people cannot sustain the behavior. Yet one small group has maintained extreme CR over years - members of the CR Society and followers of The CR Way. This study examined stable psychosocial characteristics of these individuals to identify traits that may promote success at long-term CR. In 65 participants, we measured diet, eating behaviors, and personality traits comparing calorie restrictors with two age-, gender-, ethnicity-, and education-matched comparison groups (normal weight and overweight/obese). We first tested whether the CR group restricted calories without indications of eating disorder path

SUBMITTER: Incollingo Belsky AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4198019 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature