title: Weight and body composition variations in overweight women along outpatient nutritional treatment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To evaluate the treatment of obesity it is necessary to understand the weight changes, to improve intervention strategies.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the progression of weight and body parameters in overweight women along a diet therapy.
  
  
  METHODS
  163 women participated in this study. They were evaluated for weight, circumferences (waist and hip), and body composition (lean mass and body fat) along the three treatment phases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The weight loss percentage was higher in the first treatment phase than in the second one (-6.8 ± 4.8% vs. -4.0 ± 2.7%, p < 0.0001). In the two first phases the circumferences and the lean mass decreased among women with weight loss. Body fat reduction occurred (-2.6%) during the first phase only.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Weight loss and reduction in body parameters occurred mainly in the first treatment phase, showing that it is necessary to rethink intervention strategies.
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program of Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism. Department of Internal Medicine. Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil.. wanda@fmrp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Flávia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gonçalves Micali
authors.affiliation: Nutrition and Metabolism. Department of Internal Medicine. Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism. Department of Internal Medicine. Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil..
authors.forename: Camila
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cremonezi Japur
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition. Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro - UFTM. Brazil. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism. Department of Internal Medicine. Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil..
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rodrigues de Oliveira Penaforte
authors.affiliation: Nutrition and Metabolism. Department of Internal Medicine. Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil. Laboratory of Food Practices and Behavior - PrátiCA, Nutrition and Metabolism. Department of Internal Medicine. Ribeirão Preto Medical School. University of São Paulo. Brazil.. wanda@fmrp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Rosa Wanda
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Diez-Garcia
mesh_terms: D001823:Body Composition; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D044623:Nutrition Therapy; D010045:Outpatients; D050177:Overweight / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss