Dietary Weight LossFood Cravings Strategies During Dietary Weight Loss

Avoidance Strategy: This strategy focuses on teaching individuals how to modify their immediate environments to make it easier to control food cravings. Examples include redesigning your home to remove tempting foods or limiting access to craved foods. It also covers tips on making grocery lists and communicating health goals within your social circle. Additionally, it includes a toolkit for situations where controlling the immediate environment may be challenging, such as at parties or social gatherings Both strategies include educational materials explaining the definition of food cravings, factors that contribute to food cravings, and the distinction between hunger and cravings.

Inclusion Strategy: This strategy teaches individuals how to modify their eating habits by paying attention to the portion size of craved foods and incorporating them into well-balanced meals, avoiding eating between meals. It also includes a toolkit for situations where individuals may struggle to include craved foods in their balanced meals.

Both strategies include educational materials explaining the definition of food cravings, factors that contribute to food cravings, and the distinction between hunger and cravings.

The intervention includes 12 online nutrition education sessions using the MealPlot App to track food intake and view the daily weight charts. Participants need to weigh themselves daily using a Wi-Fi scale. Participants will complete 12 asynchronous online diet improvement sessions (eText) lasting 45 minutes each. The 12 sessions will be conducted weekly for the intervention period (12 weeks). The following four sessions will be focused on creating consistent eating and sleeping patterns related to timing, frequency, and portion, as well as daily self-monitoring of weight. After that, participants will continue to complete the rest of asynchronous online diet improvement sessions, including personalized weight loss diets from their kitchen based on their diet practice and food preference, safe and efficient weight loss, weight maintenance and healthy eating, skills to select foods and create meals that prevent overeating, all to be completed by the end of 12 weeks.

The intervention includes 12 online nutrition education sessions using the MealPlot App to track food intake and view the daily weight charts. Participants need to weigh themselves daily using a Wi-Fi scale. Participants will complete 12 asynchronous online diet improvement sessions (eText) lasting 45 minutes each. The 12 sessions will be conducted weekly for the intervention period (12 weeks). The following four sessions will be focused on creating consistent eating and sleeping patterns related to timing, frequency, and portion, as well as daily self-monitoring of weight. After that, participants will continue to complete the rest of asynchronous online diet improvement sessions, including personalized weight loss diets from their kitchen based on their diet practice and food preference, safe and efficient weight loss, weight maintenance and healthy eating, skills to select foods and create meals that prevent overeating, all to be completed by the end of 12 weeks.