NCT02835092

Weight Loss Using the Take Shape For Life Program or the Medifast Direct Program Versus a Self-Directed Diet

A Randomized, Controlled, 3-Arm Clinical Trial to Assess Weight Loss Using the Take Shape For Life Program or the Medifast Direct Program Versus a Self-Directed Diet

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 198 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medifast, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study evaluates the effects of two commercially available weight loss programs, the TSFL and the MEDD programs, each compared to a self-directed control diet, on changes in body weight over a 16-week weight loss phase, in apparently healthy overweight and obese men and women.

Conditions

• Overweight
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Take Shape For Life Program	The Take Shape For Life (TSFL) Program group will be assigned to the Optimal Weight 5 \& 1 Plan™ for weight loss. This group will have scheduled coaching sessions with a TSFL coach for the duration of the study.
OTHER	Medifast Direct Program	The Medifast Direct Program (MEDD) group will be assigned to the Medifast Achieve™ Plan (4 \& 2 \& 1 Plan®) for weight loss. MEDD participants will have access to the services of the Medifast Nutrition Support Team.
OTHER	Self-directed Control	The Self-directed Control Group will be assigned to a food-based, reduced calorie diet consistent with the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-02-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2016-07-15
• Last updated: 2019-01-22
• Results posted: 2019-01-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States