TY - JOUR
T1 - Weight Loss Readiness in Middle-Aged Women
T2 - Psychosocial Predictors of Success for Behavioral Weight Reduction
AU - Teixeira, Pedro
AU - Going, Scott B.
AU - Houtkooper, Linda B.
AU - Cussler, Ellen C.
AU - Martin, Catherine J.
AU - Metcalfe, Lauve L.
AU - Finkenthal, Nuris R.
AU - Blew, Rob M.
AU - Sardinha, Luis B.
AU - Lohman, Timothy G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by NIH Grant DK57453.
PY - 2002/12
Y1 - 2002/12
N2 - Accurate prediction of weight loss success and failure has eluded researchers for many years. Thus, we administered a comprehensive psychometric battery before a 4-month lifestyle behavioral weight reduction program and analyzed weight changes during that period to identify baseline characteristics of successful and unsuccessful participants, among 112 overweight and obese middle-aged women (age, 47.8 ± 4.4 years; BMI, 31.4 ± 3.9 kg/m2). Mean weight and percentage fat losses among the 89 completers were -5.4 kg and -3.4%, respectively (p < .001). A higher number of recent dieting attempts and recent weight loss, more stringent weight outcome evaluations, a higher perceived negative impact of weight on quality of life, lower self-motivation, higher body size dissatisfaction, and lower self-esteem were associated with less weight loss and significantly distinguished responders from nonresponders among all participants. These findings are discussed as to their usefulness (i) to screen individuals before treatment, (ii) to provide a better match between interventions to participants, and (iii) to build a weight loss readiness questionnaire.
AB - Accurate prediction of weight loss success and failure has eluded researchers for many years. Thus, we administered a comprehensive psychometric battery before a 4-month lifestyle behavioral weight reduction program and analyzed weight changes during that period to identify baseline characteristics of successful and unsuccessful participants, among 112 overweight and obese middle-aged women (age, 47.8 ± 4.4 years; BMI, 31.4 ± 3.9 kg/m2). Mean weight and percentage fat losses among the 89 completers were -5.4 kg and -3.4%, respectively (p < .001). A higher number of recent dieting attempts and recent weight loss, more stringent weight outcome evaluations, a higher perceived negative impact of weight on quality of life, lower self-motivation, higher body size dissatisfaction, and lower self-esteem were associated with less weight loss and significantly distinguished responders from nonresponders among all participants. These findings are discussed as to their usefulness (i) to screen individuals before treatment, (ii) to provide a better match between interventions to participants, and (iii) to build a weight loss readiness questionnaire.
KW - Overweight women
KW - Psychosocial predictors
KW - Readiness
KW - Weight loss
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1020687832448
DO - 10.1023/A:1020687832448
M3 - Article
C2 - 12462956
AN - SCOPUS:0036887289
SN - 0160-7715
VL - 25
SP - 499
EP - 523
JO - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 6
ER -