Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, published a pilot study in Eating Behaviors evaluating a 12-week online intervention called SATISFY, designed to prevent weight gain by addressing emotional eating.
In collaboration with Dr. Rachel Goode (UNC-Chapel Hill), the program combined appetite awareness training with lifestyle strategies for obesity prevention. Participants reported reduced emotional eating and 63% achieved weight stabilization at a two-month follow-up.
The study found the intervention to be both feasible and effective, laying the groundwork for a larger randomized control trial.
Access the study here: Preventing weight gain in adults who emotionally eat: An open pilot