Daily weight monitoring as a method of weight gain prevention in healthy weight and overweight young adult women

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 2955-2965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn N Katterman ◽  
Meghan L Butryn ◽  
Megan M Hood ◽  
Michael R Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
University Women ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Measured Weight ◽  
Weight Monitoring ◽  
Unhealthy Weight Control ◽  
Harmful Effects

Experimental research is needed to examine whether weight monitoring impacts weight and whether it has unintended harmful effects. This study randomly assigned 49 first-year university women (body mass index: 20–30 kg/m2) to daily weight monitoring or a control condition and measured weight, mood, body dissatisfaction, and unhealthy weight control behaviors at baseline and 8 weeks, and weight at 20-week follow-up. No harmful effects of daily weighing were detected; acceptability and adherence were high. Weight monitoring did not impact weight; both groups showed little weight gain. Results suggest that weight monitoring has minimal harmful effects and may be useful for preventing weight gain.

Relationship Avoidance Predicts Compensatory Weight-Control Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Women

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Bankoff ◽  
Sarah E. Valentine ◽  
Michelle A. Jackson ◽  
Rebecca L. Schacht ◽  
David W. Pantalone
Keyword(s):  
Weight Control ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Emerging Adult Women

Promotion of Healthy Weight-control Practices in Young Athletes

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 752-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Weight Class ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Unhealthy Weight Control ◽  
Diet Pills ◽  
Unhealthy Weight

Many athletes engage in unhealthy weight-control practices. This new policy statement urges pediatricians to attempt to identify and help these athletes and provides information about how to support sound nutritional behavior. Athletes may engage in unhealthy weight-control practices, particularly in sports in which thinness or "making weight" is judged important to success, such as body building, cheerleading, dancing (especially ballet), distance running, diving, figure skating, gymnastics, horse racing, rowing, swimming, weight-class football, and wrestling.1-3 Some athletes may use extreme weight-loss practices that include overexercising; prolonged fasting; vomiting; using laxatives, diuretics, diet pills, other licit or illicit drugs, and/or nicotine; and use of rubber suits, steam baths, and/or saunas. The majority of these disordered eating behaviors do not meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed, criteria4 for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. In two surveys of 208 female collegiate athletes, 32% and 62% practiced at least one of the following unhealthy weight-control behaviors: self-induced vomiting, binge eating more than twice weekly, and using laxatives, diet pills, and/or diuretics.5,6 Of 713 high school wrestlers in Wisconsin, 257 (36%) demonstrated two or more behaviors related to bulimia nervosa.7 In a survey of 171 collegiate Indiana wrestlers concerning their behaviors in high school, 82% had fasted for more than 24 hours, 16% had used diuretics, and 9.4% had induced vomiting at least once a week.8 Many athletes are secretive about these potentially harmful practices. Disordered eating may have a negative short-term impact on athletic performance. Athletes who lose weight rapidly by dehydration are probably impairing their athletic performance, especially if it involves strength or endurance,9 and these strength deficits may persist even after rehydration.10

Session 12: Introduction to Defusion and Urge Surfing

2016 ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Evan M. Forman ◽  
Meghan L. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Weight Control ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Unhealthy Behavior ◽  
Urge Surfing

This chapter presents Session 12. The focus of this session is defusion (a psychological skill to gain distance from one’s internal experiences, such as thoughts and emotions, in order to view them as momentary experiences rather than absolute truths) and urge surfing (“riding the wave” of uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and urges by noticing and monitoring the negative internal state without giving in to the urge to engage in unhealthy behavior) as strategies to promote acceptance and facilitate healthy weight control behaviors.

Session 12: Introduction to Defusion and Urge Surfing

2016 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Evan M. Forman ◽  
Meghan L. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Weight Control ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Unhealthy Behavior ◽  
Urge Surfing

This chapter presents Session 12. The focus of this session is defusion (a psychological skill to gain distance from one’s internal experiences, such as thoughts and emotions, in order to view them as momentary experiences rather than absolute truths) and urge surfing (“riding the wave” of uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and urges by noticing and monitoring the negative internal state without giving in to the urge to engage in unhealthy behavior) as strategies to promote acceptance and facilitate healthy weight control behaviors.

scholarly journals Direct and the Indirect Determinants of Weight-Control Behaviours among Adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Tur-Sinai ◽  
T Kolobov ◽  
R Tesler ◽  
O Baron-Epel ◽  
K Dvir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Family Meals ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Family Wealth ◽  
Weight Control Behaviour ◽  
Employed Parents ◽  
Unhealthy Weight Control ◽  
Unhealthy Weight ◽  
Control Behaviour

Abstract Background Economic determinants such as socioeconomic inequalities and parents’ employment have a profound impact on the health of adolescents in terms of unhealthy weight-control behaviours (UWCB). In addition, various family factors may play a role in adolescents’ weight-control behaviours (WCB). This study examines the association among socioeconomic status, perceived family wealth, and number of employed parents and Israeli adolescents’ WCB and asks whether family variables (parental communication, monitoring, support, and family meals) mediate WCB. Methods Data from the cross-sectional questionnaire of the 2014 Israeli Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study are analysed using structural equation modelling. The research population includes approximately 7,000 Israeli schoolchildren in grades 6, 8, and 10. The association among socioeconomic status (SES) factors (SES measures, parental employment), sociodemographic factors, and weight-control behaviours among adolescents is calculated. Results High family affluence and high perceived family wealth are negatively associated with unhealthy weight-control behaviour. Having two employed parents leads to lower levels of UWCB. Family-related variables like family communication and support and parental monitoring are found to mitigate unhealthy weight-control behaviours. Family meals have a significantly positive effect on healthy weight-control behaviour and a significantly negative impact on unhealthy weight-control activities. Conclusions The findings suggest that economic factors such as SES and number of employed parents are necessary strategies for long-term weight-control practice. The combination of WCB and family meals is the most effective method for adolescents’ healthy weight-control behaviour. Key messages The study highlights the importance of considering the quality of family communication and support as a health asset that may contribute to WCB among young people. Family affluence and perceived family wealth, which were two separate measurements, were perceived differently by adolescents.

scholarly journals Differential Risk Factors for Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors by Sex and Weight Status Among U.S. Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Nagata ◽  
Andrea K. Garber ◽  
Jennifer L. Tabler ◽  
Stuart B. Murray ◽  
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Unhealthy Weight Control ◽  
Unhealthy Weight ◽  
Differential Risk
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