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Increasing Adherence to Diet and Exercise Through Cognitive Behavioural Strategies

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In obesity management, behavioural therapy is tailored to provide patients with a set of effective procedures and strategies for improving their long-term adherence to the necessary changes in their eating and exercising habits. Behavioural therapy was originally based exclusively on learning theory (i.e. behaviourism) but later incorporated cognitive strategies and specific recommendations on diet and exercise, giving rise to the multifaceted treatment that we know today as ‘weight loss lifestyle modification’. The evidence suggests that such programmes can now be combined with pharmacotherapy, residential treatment, and/or bariatric surgery to maximize the outcome of major weight loss. Here we provide an overview of weight loss lifestyle modification programmes, describing their principal components, the short- and long-term results that can be expected, and the latest developments in the field.

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  1. Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Via Montebaldo, 89, Garda (VR), 37016, Italy

    Riccardo Dalle Grave, Simona Calugi & Marwan El Ghoch

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  1. Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Medical Pathophysiology, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

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  2. Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, Unit of Endocrinology, Foro Italico University, Rome, Italy

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Grave, R.D., Calugi, S., El Ghoch, M. (2015). Increasing Adherence to Diet and Exercise Through Cognitive Behavioural Strategies. In: Lenzi, A., Migliaccio, S., Donini, L. (eds) Multidisciplinary Approach to Obesity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09045-0_27

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