Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Pregnancy or lactation, since contraindicated for weight loss or affecting weight status
• •2. Weight loss \> 10 pounds in the previous 3 months
• •3. Current use of weight loss medications
• •4. Use of medications known to result in significant weight gain (e.g., oral steroids or second generation anti-psychotics)
• •5. Psychiatric disorders including untreated major depression, psychosis, bulimia nervosa, and substance abuse
• •6. Active chemo- or radiation therapy
• •7. Unstable renal, hepatic, or cardiovascular disease, including malignant arrhythmias
• •8. Recent (past 3 months) history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or congestive heart failure
• •9. Participants age \< 18 will be excluded because we are only using adult practices and a different type of program would be needed for patients \< 18, and age \> 70 years will be excluded because our experience has been that a specially tailored program would be needed. As a design consideration, we wanted to decrease the heterogeneity of the program.
• •10. Participants with a BMI \> 55 kg/m2 will be excluded because they are likely to require more extensive medical and behavioral care than can be provided in this study.
• •11. More than 1 participant residing in the same household will be excluded to avoid contamination across the treatment conditions.