Adherence
Intrinsic motivation and prior behavioral experience are stronger predictors of successful weight loss than financial incentives in low-intensity interventions.
If you are trying to lose weight, rely on your own internal drive and past successes rather than expecting external rewards (like money) to sustain you. Build routines, manage your environment, and seek social support. Financial incentives might help those with low intrinsic motivation, but they are not a substitute for behavioral change.
Successful participants often stated that weight loss was its own reward, even without receiving incentives. Successful participants described more robust prior attempts at dietary and exercise modification, more active engagement with self- limitations, more substantial social support and a greater ability to routinise dietary and exercise changes than did participants who did not lose weight.
Why this rating
Qualitative study with small sample (n=24) and potential recall bias.
Source
Qualitative study of perceptions of factors contributing to success or failure among participants in a US weight loss trial of financial incentives and environmental change strategies
Karen Glanz et al. · BMJ Open · 2024
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078111
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