Context: For decades, behavioral weight-loss treatments have been unsuccessful beyond
the short term. Development and testing of innovative, theoretically based methods that …

Severely obese men and women (body mass index≥ 35≤ 55 kg/m2; M age= 44.8 years,
SD= 9.3) were randomly assigned to a 6-month physical activity support treatment paired …

INTRODUCTION: Behavioral interventions targeting sustained weight loss have largely
failed for decades, with little chance of improvement using prevailing methods. OBJECTIVE …

Background: Behavioral weight-loss treatments have been overwhelmingly unsuccessful.
Many inadequately address both behavioral theory and extant research—especially in …

Architects of behavioral weight-loss programs require improved understandings of
psychosocial correlates of healthy eating behaviors to improve overwhelmingly poor …

OBJECTIVE: This study tested whether different forms of physical activity (PA) were
associated with eating self-regulation during weight control, and if changes in eating …

An emphasis on increasing self-regulation is an alternate to nutrition education, which has
had poor results in the behavioral treatment of obesity. Although appropriately designed …

Background A better understanding of interrelations of exercise and improved eating, and
their psychosocial correlates of self-efficacy, mood, and self-regulation, may be useful for the …

Purpose: Although exercise is typically included in behavioral weight-loss programs, the
amount associated with meaningful short-to long-term weight reduction required …

This reprinted article originally appeared in Health Psychology, 2009, Vol. 28, No. 6, 709–
716.(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2009-20990-008.) …