'I will fast ... tomorrow': Intentions to restrict eating and actual restriction in daily life and their person-level predictors

摘要

Objective: Dietary restraint is a common, yet controversial practice to tackle overweight. Yet, despite good intentions to reduce food intake, most restraint-based diets fail to produce long term weight loss. A better understanding of the naturalistic course of daily dieting intentions and their effectiveness in guiding subsequent eating behavior are therefore needed.