title: [Behavioral therapy for obesity].
abstract: Diet therapy and exercise are used as main therapeutic methods for weight reduction to correct disrupted energy balance in obese patients. However, introduction as well as maintenance of these therapies is not so easy. Behavioral therapy to reinforce changes in diet and physical activity is useful for weight reduction. Especially, changes in life style including acquisition of new habit of eating and physical activity may be important for long-term maintenance of reduced body weight. As specific behavioral strategies, self monitoring, stress management, stimulus control, problem solving, contingency management, cognitive reconstruction and social support are recommended. Charting of daily weight pattern reinforces maintenance of weight reduction in moderately obese patients because it can include many factors of these strategies. Finally, it can be expected that combination of diet therapy, exercise, behavioral therapy and drug therapy may further improve effectiveness of interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine I, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University.
authors.forename: Hironobu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshimatsu
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*