Does emotional eating interfere with success in attempts at weight control?
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Questionnaire responses from a convenience sample were used to test for hypothesized relationships between changes over time in individuals' reported frequency of emotional eating and estimates of their success in attempts to reduce body weight over periods of at least 1 year. Respondents were 187 English adults, whose distribution of estimated Body Mass Indices (BMI) approximately that of the general population. Initial BMI was significantly (p less than 0.001) positively associated with reported frequency of emotional eating. Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating. Similarly, respondents who reported an increase from initially relatively low levels of emotional eating, while not losing significantly less reported weight, were significantly (p less than 0.05) less successful at approaching target weight than those respondents who continued to report low levels of emotional eating.
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Obesity is associated with both emotional eating and external eating.
“There is evidence to suggest that obesity is associated with both emotional eating and external eating .”
From Exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women (2009) · cites this paper as Blair, Lewis & Booth, 1990
Questionnaire measures of emotional and external eating are positively associated with BMI and obesity.
“Research shows that questionnaire measures of these types of eating behaviours are positively associated with BMI and obesity (Blair, Lewis & Booth, 1990; Braet & Van Strien, 1997; Delehanty et al., 2002; Hays et al., 2002; Wardle, 1987) 1 .”
From Exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women (2009) · cites this paper as Blair, Lewis & Booth, 1990
In Blair et al. (1990), unsuccessful weight control was associated with increases in emotional eating between baseline and follow-up and with high levels at both time points.
“In contrast, unsuccessful weight control was associated with increases between baseline and follow-up and with high levels at both time points.”
From Exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women (2009) · cites this paper as Blair et al., (1990)
In Blair et al. (1990), successful weight control was associated with decreases in emotional eating between baseline and 1-year follow-up and with low levels of emotional eating at both time points.
“In addition, a study by Blair et al., (1990) found significant associations between levels of emotional eating and weight loss success; successful weight control was associated with decreases in emotional eating between baseline and a 1 year follow-up and with low levels of emotional eating at both time points.”
From Exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women (2009) · cites this paper as Blair et al., (1990)
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- Authors
- Blair, A. J., Lewis, V. J., & Booth, D. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (GB)
- ORCID
- Booth, D.A.
- Venue
- Appetite
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1990-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 151-157
- ISSN
- 0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2042794830
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- Locations
- Appetite (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- emotional eating, weight management, weight loss, body mass index, dietary behavior change, overeating
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Eating, Emotions, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Time Factors, Weight Loss
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