![]() ![]() Participants indicated that dietary self-monitoring may be helpful when trying to lose weight but harmful if the behavior becomes obsessive or if the user has poor body image. Other notable findings included increases in weight and/or shape concerns (n = 10) and a number of changes in dietary intake and other behaviors. ![]() Participants' experiences dietary self-monitoring was highly variable, with some participants reporting increased negative feelings (n = 9), positive feelings (n = 7), or both (n = 2). Inductive content analysis was utilized to identify participants' perceptions of how engaging in dietary self-monitoring for one month impacted them. The sample consisted of undergraduate women (N = 20), aged ≥ 18 (mean = 21.9 ± 6.6 years) from a cross-sectional qualitative study using semi-structured interviews conducted upon participants' completion of a randomized controlled trial testing the effects of dietary self-monitoring via the smartphone app, MyFitnessPal. The present study explored college women's perceptions of how dietary self-monitoring alters eating and body image-related cognitions and behaviors.
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