This doctoral thesis focuses on long-term weight management. In Western countries, the
current obesogenic (obesity-promoting) environment is believed to play a key role in the …

Objective Public health messages encourage maintaining a stable weight and are influential
in shaping normative weight management discourses. We studied how individuals with …

Objective. Although behavioural interventions are successful in achieving short‐term weight
loss, most individuals regain most or all of their weight within a few years. Our aim was to …

Objective: To assess dietary intake, eating patterns, physical activity and eating behaviors,
and to explore strategies and perceptions of the experience of weight maintenance in weight …

Objective This study aimed to identify major themes of a large cohort experiencing long‐term
weight‐loss maintenance who answered open‐ended questions about weight‐loss triggers …

Weight loss is difficult to achieve and maintaining the weight loss is an even greater
challenge. The identification of factors associated with weight loss maintenance can …

Objective: To advance understanding of the individual and environmental factors
underpinning weight loss maintenance. Design: Semi-structured, data-prompted interviews …

Background Qualitative studies investigating weight management experiences are usually
cross‐sectional or of short duration, which limits understanding of the long‐term challenges …

Background Obesity is now a worldwide problem and Ireland is no exception with
approximately two thirds of the adult population now overweight or obese. A recent report …

Abstract In the United States obesity is omnipresent and long-term weight loss maintenance
is relatively rare. The difficulties of losing excess weight are exacerbated by social stigma …