INTRODUCTION: Behavioral interventions targeting sustained weight loss have largely
failed for decades, with little chance of improvement using prevailing methods. OBJECTIVE …

Background: Behavioral weight-loss treatments have been overwhelmingly unsuccessful.
Many inadequately address both behavioral theory and extant research—especially in …

Context: For decades, behavioral weight-loss treatments have been unsuccessful beyond
the short term. Development and testing of innovative, theoretically based methods that …

Objective: Maintaining weight loss is a major challenge in obesity treatment. Individuals
often indicate that waning motivation prompts cessation of effective weight management …

Innovative approaches are urgently needed to improve behavioral treatment for weight loss.
The weight regain that is so common after treatment may be a result of an environment that …

Background A better understanding of interrelations of exercise and improved eating, and
their psychosocial correlates of self-efficacy, mood, and self-regulation, may be useful for the …

Behaviour change interventions can be effective in helping people to lose weight, but weight
is often regained. Effective interventions are required to prevent this. We conducted a …

The obesity epidemic is one of the most serious public health threats confronting the nation
and the world. The majority of overweight individuals want to lose weight, but the overall …

Maintenance of weight loss is hard to achieve, and novel interventions are needed to
improve long-term outcomes. In this pilot randomized controlled trial, N= 188 participants …

Recent evidence demonstrates that only about 5% of individuals embarking on a weight loss
program show lasting weight reduction. While many weight loss strategies have …