Maintenance-Tailored Obesity Treatment (LIFE)
Obesity

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Obesity focused on measuring obesity, weight loss, treatment
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants must be 18 years of age or older
- Body mass index between 30.0 and 37.0
Exclusion Criteria:
- serious current physical disease (e.g., heart disease, cancer, and diabetes) for which physician supervision of diet and exercise would be needed.
- initial fasting glucose values above 120 mg/dl
- resting blood pressure at or above 90 DBP or 150 SBP will be strongly encouraged to see their primary care physician for further evaluation and will not be accepted into the study unless they do so and have physician consent for participation.
- physical problems that preclude their participation in the diet and exercise components of the program
- currently taking weight-loss medications
- currently participating in another formal weight loss-program
- currently pregnant or plan to become pregnant during the next 30 months
- currently receiving treatment for a major psychological disorder or have scores on the Beck Depression Inventory above 27.0, indicative of likely clinical depression.
- only one individual per household accepted into the study
Sites / Locations
- University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Standard Behavioral Treatment (SBT)
Maintenance-Tailored Treatment (MTT)
Standard Behavioral Treatment (SBT) for weight loss intervention introduces a core set of instructions on diet and exercise at the beginning of the intervention and then "embellishes" these instructions with suggested refinements of behavioral choices over time (e.g., different menus and amounts or types of physical activity).
Maintenance-Tailored Treatment (MTT) for weight loss intervention treats diet and exercise strategy "embellishments" as separate interventions with discrete and independent status. MTT differs from SBT in its emphasis on skills for long-term weight control, namely, the strategy of initiating varied weight-control strategies as a response to the demands of changing environmental challenges and to sustain effective cues and reinforcements needed to motivate weight-loss behaviors.