Greater Average Meal Planning Frequency Predicts Greater Weight Loss Outcomes in a Worksite-Based Behavioral Weight Loss Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Planning in behavioral weight loss (BWL) programs helps participants enact changes in eating and exercise, although the direct impact on weight loss is unclear.

Purpose

To examine how meal and exercise planning frequencies change in a BWL program and their relations to weight loss outcomes.

Methods

Participants (N = 139) in a 40 week worksite-based BWL program completed a questionnaire regarding meal and exercise planning frequency at Weeks 0, 10, 20, 30, and 40 and were weighed weekly. Growth curve models were used to determine trajectories in meal and exercise planning frequency and to assess the role of an individual's average meal and exercise planning (between-person effect) and individual variation in planning (within-person effect) on body mass index

SUBMITTER: Hayes JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7982781 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature