Testing Strategies to Encourage Weight Loss in an Employer Setting

Exclusion Criteria

• •Inability to consent
• •Illiteracy and/or inability to speak, read, and write English
• •Participation in another research study
• •Current treatment for drug or alcohol use
• •Consumption of ≥ 5 alcoholic drinks per day
• •Myocardial infarction or stroke within the past 6 months
• •Current addiction to prescription medicines or street drugs
• •Serious psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., severe major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia)
• •Pregnant or currently breastfeeding
• •Diabetic and using any medicine besides metformin to control blood glucose
• •Metastatic cancer
• •Unstable medical conditions that would likely prevent the subject from completing the study
• •Previous diagnosis of an eating disorder
• •History of unsafe weight loss behaviors such as binging or the use of laxatives