ArticlePloS one2018
Cognitive and behavioural strategies for weight management in overweight adults: Results from the Oxford Food and Activity Behaviours (OxFAB) cohort study.
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- Successful weight loss maintenance: A systematic review of weight control registries.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Pooled it
- Cognitive and behavioural strategies for self-directed weight loss: systematic review of qualitative studies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Pooled it
- Secondary analysis of the Game of Stones trial for men with obesity: examining moderator effects and exploratory outcomes.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Trial
- Use of Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies During a Weight Loss Program: A Secondary Analysis of the Doctor Referral of Overweight People to Low-Energy Total Diet Replacement Treatment (DROPLET) Trial.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2023Trial
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- Dietary intake by patients taking GLP-1 and dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonists: A narrative review and discussion of research needs.Obesity pillars · 2024Review
- Development and validation of a weight-loss predictor to assist weight loss management.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Oxford Food and Activity Behaviors 20-item questionnaire to assess personal weight management strategies: Development and testing.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Clinical application of intermittent fasting for weight loss: progress and future directions.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2022Review
- Weight management strategies in Middle-Aged Women (MAW): Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the Oxford Food and Activity Behaviors Taxonomy (OxFAB-MAW) in a Portuguese sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating role in dietary interventions and precision nutrition.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThough many overweight and obese adults attempt to lose weight without formal support, little is known about the strategies used in self-directed weight loss attempts. We set out to assess cognitive and behavioural strategies for weight loss and their associations with weight change.
methodsProspective, web-based cohort study of overweight UK adults (BMI≥25kg/m2) trying to lose weight through behaviour change. Strategy use was assessed using the OxFAB questionnaire and evaluated (1) at the domain level, (2) through exploratory factor analysis, and (3) in a model of strategies deemed a priori to be "essential" to weight management. Associations with weight change at 3 months were tested using linear regression.
results486 participants answered all questions; 194 reported weight at baseline and at 3 months (mean weight change -3.3kg (SD 4.1)). Greater weight loss was significantly associated with the motivational support domain (-2.4kg, 95% CI -4.4 to -0.4), dietary impulse control (from factor analysis) (-0.6kg, 95% CI -1.1 to -0.03), and weight loss planning and monitoring (from factor analysis) (-1.3kg, 95% CI -2.0 to -0.5). Higher scores in the model of essential behavioural strategies were significantly associated with greater weight loss (compared to participants using 6 or fewer of the 9 strategies, using 7 or more of the 9 strategies was associated with a 2.13kg greater weight loss (SE 0.58, p<0.001)).
conclusionsDespite heterogeneity in the strategies employed for weight loss, coherent patterns of behaviours emerged for individual participants, some of which were associated with greater weight loss, including strategies relating to dietary impulse control, weight loss planning and monitoring, motivational support, information seeking and self-monitoring. Trials could test the effect of promoting use of these patterns on weight loss.
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