title: Emotional eating is associated with weight loss success among adults enrolled in a weight loss program.
abstract: To examine associations between decreased emotional eating and weight loss success; and whether participation in a behavioral weight loss intervention was associated with a greater reduction in emotional eating over time compared to usual care. Secondary data analysis of a randomized controlled trial conducted at two university medical centers with 227 overweight adults with diabetes. Logistic and standard regression analyses examined associations between emotional eating change and weight loss success (i.e., weight loss of ≥7 % of body weight and decrease in BMI). After 6 months of intervention, decreased emotional eating was associated with greater odds of weight loss success (p = .05). The odds of weight loss success for subjects with decreased emotional eating at 12 months were 1.70 times higher than for subjects with increased emotional eating. No differences in change in emotional eating were found between subjects in the behavioral weight loss intervention and usual care. Strategies to reduce emotional eating may be useful to promote greater weight loss among overweight adults with diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43403, USA. abbym@bgsu.edu.
authors.forename: Abby
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Braden
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Shirley W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Flatt
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.|Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Kerri N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Boutelle
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Strong
authors.affiliation: HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Sherwood
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Cheryl L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Rock
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss / Q000502:physiology*; D061217:Weight Reduction Programs
keywords: Diabetes; Emotional eating; Obesity; Randomized clinical trial