Setting targets leads to greater long-term weight losses and ‘unrealistic’ targets increase the effect in a large community-based commercial weight management group

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Setting targets leads to greater long-term weight losses and ‘unrealistic’ targets increase the effect in a large community-based commercial weight management group

Background. Setting personal targets is an important behavioural component in weight management programmes. Normal practice is to encourage ‘realistic’ weight loss but the under-pinning evidence base for this is limited and controversial. This study investigates the effect of number and size of weig...

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Main Authors:	Avery, Amanda, Langley-Evans, Simon C., Harrington, Michaela, Swift, Judy A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley 2016
Subjects:	Setting Targets/Goals Community Weight Loss
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33063/

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