Abstract
Lifestyle-based interventions, which typically promote various behavior modification strategies, can serve as a setting for evaluating specific behaviors and strategies thought to promote or hinder weight loss. The aim of our study was to test the associations of self-monitoring (ie, self-weighing and food journal completion) and eating-related (ie, dietary intake, diet-related weight-control strategies, and meal patterns) behaviors with weight loss in a sample of postmenopausal overweight-to-obese women enrolled in a 12-month dietary weight loss intervention. Changes in body weight and adoption of self-monitoring and eating-related behaviors were assessed in 123 participants. Generalized linear models tested associations of these behaviors with 12-month weight change after adjusting for potential confounders. Mean percent weight loss was 10.7%. In the final model, completing more food journals was associated with a greater percent weight loss (interquartile range 3.7% greater weight loss; P<0.0001), whereas skipping meals (4.3% lower weight loss; P<0.05) and eating out for lunch (at least once a week, 2.5% lower weight loss; P<0.01) were associated with a lower amount of weight loss. These findings suggest that a greater focus on dietary self-monitoring, home-prepared meals, and consuming meals at regular intervals may improve 12-month weight loss among postmenopausal women enrolled in a dietary weight loss intervention.
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Biography
A. Kong is a postdoctoral research associate, Cancer Education and Career Development Program, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
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S. A. A. Beresford is a professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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K. E. Foster-Schubert is an assistant professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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D. B. Johnson is an associate professor of Nutritional Sciences and associate director, Center for Public Health Nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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C. M. Alfano is program director, Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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M. L. Neuhouser is a member, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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C. Duggan is a senior staff scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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A. McTiernan is director, Prevention Center, and member, Epidemiology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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C.-Y. Wang is a member, Biostatistics and Biomathmatics Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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L. Xiao is a statistical research associate, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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C. E. Bain is a project coordinator II, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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R. W. Jeffery is a professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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Publication history
Published online: July 16, 2012
Accepted: April 24, 2012
Available online 13 July 2012
Footnotes
STATEMENT OF POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
FUNDING/SUPPORT This work was supported by grant nos. R01 CA105204-01A1, U54-CA116847, R25CA094880, and 2R25CA057699 from the National Cancer Institute and no. 5KL2RR025015-03 from the National Center for Research Resources.
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