Active clinical trials for "Weight Loss"

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a weight reduction program in adults, seen in a primary care setting, with overweight/obesity perceived as a health problem or with diseases related to overweight/obesity and ambitions to achieve weight reduction as part of treatment.

This study will test the effectiveness of two distinct treatments for weight loss: Motivational Interviewing Nutritional Counseling. These treatments will be compared to Treatment as Usual. Participants will be recruited through local primary care offices.

The Lose Now NC research study aims to determine feasibility by delivering a community based weight loss program for 4 months in Kannapolis, NC in a large group format compared with smaller group format, (recruiting approximately 225 participants from Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties and randomizing them to large or small group in-person sessions coupled with an interim internet program) to examine reach and recruitment potential, pilot intervention procedures, collect process measures to determine satisfaction, adherence, attrition, and estimate weight loss for planning a larger trial.

The purpose of this study is to explore the efficacy of a phone-based weight loss program that has stress management techniques integrated throughout (Weight Talk-Mindfulness). The program is targeted at employees of certain companies who meet a cut-off score on a measure of stress-related eating. The control group will receive a standard phone-based program with no additional stress management information (Weight Talk-Standard). Hypothesis 1: Participants in Weight Talk-Mindfulness (WT-M; n=50) will experience decreases in their stress-related & emotion-related eating compared to the Weight Talk-Standard (WT-S; n=25) group. Hypothesis 2: The WT-M group will lose more weight compared to the WT-S control group. Hypothesis 3: Participants in WT-M will experience decreased perceived stress, increased eating self-efficacy, increased acceptance of weight-related thoughts & feelings and increased mindfulness compared to those in the WT-S control arm. Hypothesis 4: Participants in WT-M will be equally as satisfied with their weight loss program as those in WT-S.

The purpose of the weight-loss study is to characterize the effect of LGG supplementation on the relative abundance of phyla in the gut microbiota of patients undergoing gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy surgery, and to elucidate a relationship between the gut microbiota pattern and the degree of weight-loss post-surgery. The investigators hypothesize that LGG administration will result in a "leaner" pattern of gut microbiota that will lead to higher weight loss at 3 months post-surgery.

This is a multicenter, randomized, evaluator and subject blinded, parallel-group, controlled study intended to evaluate the safety and efficacy of treating obese patients with the placement of g-Cath EZ suture anchors followed by a structured diet and exercise plan as compared to a sham procedure followed by the same diet and exercise plan. Subjects will be randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to the treatment procedure followed by diet and exercise or the sham procedure followed by diet and exercise. After un-blinding at 12 months post-treatment, sham patients can choose to have the treatment procedure as well.

The purpose of this study, conducted academic Pilot research purposes, this is not clear as to permit. when orlistat to sibutramine merge if there are additional effects of BMI and group, which has an attribute that is greater for the combined effect is to analyze. Study phase: Investigator-initiated clinical study (Pilot study) Method of blinding: Double-blind Control: Placebo-controlled Assignment method: Randomization (Sibutramine monotherapy group: Orlistat and Sibutramine combination group = 1 : 1) Studied disease: Obesity Study population: Subjects eligible for inclusion/exclusion criteria Dosing period: Total 18 weeks Run-in period (2 weeks), dosing period (12 weeks) and post-dosing observation period (4 weeks)

This is a pilot study to evaluate the effect of keeping a 'gratitude journal' on the outcome of a weight loss program. All the subjects will be enrolled in the Lifesteps weight management program. The experimental group will maintain a gratitude journal and the control group will maintain a 'neutral' journal.

This randomized clinical trial of weight loss treatment will examine if adding personalized, one-on-one treatment session to standard behavioral group treatment will result in greater weight loss, less weight regain after weight loss, and better adherence to the treatment protocol. Everyone who enrolls in the study will receive information on healthy eating, how to increase their physical activity and develop healthy exercise habits and ways to change their eating so that they will lose weight. This information will be provided at evening group sessions. There will be a total of 20 group meetings over an 18-month period that will be held: every week during the first month of the study, every other week for the second month once a month for months 3-12 every 6 weeks for months 13-18 Participants in the self-efficacy group will also be asked to participate in one-on-one lifestyle counseling sessions with a study interventionist throughout the study. Everyone will be asked to complete questionnaires, two 24-hour dietary recalls over the phone, and have blood tests done every six months (at the beginning of the study, at 6, 12, and 18 months) a total of 4 times for the study.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether CP-866,087 is effective in the weight loss of overweight patients.