Promoting healthy weight with "stability skills first": a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although behavioral weight-loss interventions produce short-term weight loss, long-term maintenance remains elusive. This randomized trial examined whether learning a novel set of "stability skills" before losing weight improved long-term weight management. Stability skills were designed to optimize individuals' current satisfaction with lifestyle and self-regulatory habits while requiring the minimum effort and attention necessary.

Method

Overweight/obese women (N = 267) were randomly assigned to one of two 6-month interventions and assessed at baseline and at 6, 12, and 18 months. Maintenance First women participated first in an 8-week stability skills maintenance module and then in a standard 20-week behavioral weight-loss program. Weight Loss First women partic

SUBMITTER: Kiernan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4428307 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature