Cited by 166Eating Disorders and BehaviorsObesity, Physical Activity, DietNutrition, Health and Food Behavior

Maintaining large weight losses: The role of behavioral and psychological factors.

Open access
Wing, Rena R., Papandonatos, George, Fava, Joseph L., Gorin, Amy A., Phelan, Suzanne, McCaffery, Jeanne, Tate, Deborah F.·2008·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Abstract

Few studies have examined predictors of weight regain after significant weight losses. This prospective study examined behavioral and psychological predictors of weight regain in 261 successful weight losers who completed an 18-month trial of weight regain prevention that compared a control condition with self-regulation interventions delivered face-to-face or via the Internet. Linear mixed effect models were used to examine behavioral and psychological predictors of weight regain, both as main effects and as interactions with treatment group. Decreases in physical activity were related to weight regain across all 3 groups, and increased frequency of self-weighing was equally protective in the 2 intervention groups but not in the control group. Increases in depressive symptoms, disinhibition, and hunger were also related to weight regain in all groups. Although the impact of changes in restraint was greatest in the Internet group and weakest in the face-to-face group, the latter was the only group with increases in restraint over time and consequent decreases in magnitude of weight regain. Future programs should focus on maintaining physical activity, dietary restraints, and frequent self-weighing and should include stronger components to modify psychological parameters.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1037/a0014159

Cites

24 of 24 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The comparatively rapid weight regain may relate to participants who received semaglutide in STEP 1 having achieved greater weight loss prior to withdrawal than in other trials, and thus having greater potential for regain, driven by physiological and behavioural factors.

    “This may well relate to participants who received semaglutide in STEP 1 having achieved greater weight loss prior to withdrawal than in other trials, and thus having greater potential for regain, driven by physiological and behavioural factors.”

    From Weight regain and cardiometabolic effects after withdrawal of semaglutide: The <scp>STEP</scp> 1 trial extension (2022) · cites this paper as [22]

    Split into 2 atoms — 0 confirmed, 2 partially supported, 0 disputed, 0 misattributed, 0 unverifiable. Expand the claim to see per-atom verdicts.

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Wing, R. R., Papandonatos, G., Fava, J. L., Gorin, A. A., Phelan, S., McCaffery, J., & Tate, D. F.
Affiliations
  • Brown University (US)
  • Miriam Hospital (US)
  • University of Connecticut (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Venue
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Published
2008
Volume
76
Issue
6
Pages
1015-1021
ISSN
  • 0022-006X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-2117
OpenAlex
W2036556357
Cited by
166
References
23
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 7
FWCI
13.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • DigitalCommons - CalPoly (California State Polytechnic University) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK 057413)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
Keywords
weight regain, weight loss maintenance, self-regulation interventions, online intervention, face-to-face intervention, physical activity, self-weighing, dietary restraint, depressive symptoms, disinhibition, hunger
MeSH terms
Body Weight, Energy Intake, Depression, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Motor Activity, Patient Compliance, Psychology, Severity of Illness Index, Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Body Mass Index

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review