A Conceptual Model of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: The Importance of Cognitive, Empirical and Computational Approaches
Abstract
:1. The Obesity Pandemic
2. Executive Functioning and Overweight and Obesity
3. Can Training Executive Functions Improve Weight Loss Maintenance?
4. The Impacts of Weight Loss on Executive Functioning
5. Social Support and Weight Loss Maintenance
5.1. Psychosocial Stress, Executive Function and Social Support
5.2. Executive Functioning and Habit
6. A Conceptual Framework of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: Executive Functioning, Social Support, Psychosocial Stress and Habit
7. Framework Validation and Extension
7.1. Verbal Models—What Are They Good For?
7.2. The Role of Computational Models in Understanding Behaviour
- (1)
- What are the essential or “key variables” of the model (and, thus what is extraneous)?
- (2)
- How should the key variables be instantiated and what is the range of properties or values that should be given to each variable?
- (3)
- How should the relation between key variables be expressed?
- (4)
- What criteria should be used to evaluate the model’s success in simulating the phenomenon?
7.3. The Role of Computational Models in Understanding Behaviour
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Haywood, D.; Lawrence, B.J.; Baughman, F.D.; Mullan, B.A. A Conceptual Model of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: The Importance of Cognitive, Empirical and Computational Approaches. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 635. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020635
Haywood D, Lawrence BJ, Baughman FD, Mullan BA. A Conceptual Model of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: The Importance of Cognitive, Empirical and Computational Approaches. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(2):635. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020635
Chicago/Turabian StyleHaywood, Darren, Blake J. Lawrence, Frank D. Baughman, and Barbara A. Mullan. 2021. "A Conceptual Model of Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: The Importance of Cognitive, Empirical and Computational Approaches" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 635. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020635