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Errors as a Means of Reducing Impulsive Food Choice
Published on: June 5, 2016
Behavioral choice treatment promotes continuing weight loss: preliminary results of a cognitive-behavioral
T Sbrocco1, R C Nedegaard, J M Stone
1Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799, USA. Tsbrocco@mxb.usuhs.mil
Abstract:
Twenty-four obese women were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 group treatments: behavioral choice treatment (BCT) or traditional behavioral treatment (TBT). BCT uses decision theory to promote moderate behavior change that can be comfortably, and therefore permanently, maintained. Groups completed a moderate-intensity walking program and obtained feedback from computerized eating dairies. The TBT group evidenced greater weight loss at posttreatment. However, the TBT group also evidenced a trend to regain weight, whereas the BCT group continued a slow weight loss during follow-up. Exercise followed a similar pattern. Both groups decreased in restraint and increased in self-esteem.
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