Attitudes to Three Weight Maintenance Strategies: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Weight loss maintenance can be difficult and ultimately unsuccessful, due to psychological, behavioural, social, and physiological influences. The present study investigated three strategies with the potential to improve weight maintenance success: daily weighing, missing an occasional meal, habitually changing high energy foods. The principal aim was to gain an understanding of attitudes to these strategies in participants who had recent experience of weight loss attempts, with or without maintenance. This was a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews, with 20 participants aged 18-67 (twelve females), analysed using thematic analysis. Most participants disliked daily weighing and missing an occasional meal for long-term maintenance and were concerned about potential negativ

SUBMITTER: Bird F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9655049 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature