Sílvia R. Coutinho

TL;DR: Results suggest that interventions grounded in SDT can be successfully implemented in the context of weight management, enhancing the internalization of more autonomous forms of behavioral regulation, and facilitating exercise adherence, while producing clinically-significant weight reduction, when compared to a control condition.

TL;DR: Results show that lowering emotional eating and adopting a flexible dietary restraint pattern are critical for sustained weight loss, and interventions must also be effective in promoting exercise intrinsic motivation and self‐efficacy.

TL;DR: Increased general self-determination and exercise motivation seem to facilitate improvements in eating self-regulation during weight control in women, suggesting these motivational mechanisms also underlie the relationship between improvements in exercise behavior and eating regulation.

TL;DR: Results from this RCT will contribute to a better understanding of how motivational characteristics, particularly those related to physical activity/exercise behavioral self-regulation, influence treatment success, while exploring the utility of Self-Determination Theory for promoting health behavior change in the context of obesity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether exercise-specific motivation can transfer to eating regulation during a lifestyle weight control program and further investigated whether general, treatment-related, and exercise motivation underlie the relation between increased exercise and improved eating regulation.