Table 1. Characteristics of study population (mean ± SEM).

	European American	African American	t	P value
Baseline
N	60	60
Age	34.47 ± 0.84	35.03 ± 0.79	-0.481	0.631
BMI (kg/m2)	28.20 ± 0.17	28.19 ± 0.15	0.030	0.977
Body weight (kg)	78.44 ± 1.07	78.79 ± 0.78	1.261	0.210
Body fat (%)	44.06 ± 0.48	42.44 ± 0.47	2.426	0.017
Body fat (kg)	34.35 ± 0.74	32.34 ± 0.51	2.231	0.028
Perceived self body size	5.52 ± 0.08	5.02 ± 0.09	4.127	<0.001
Ideal body size	3.18 ± 0.08	3.02 ± 0.06	1.740	0.085
“Acceptable” body size	3.56 ± 0.09	3.28 ± 0.08	2.253	0.026
Perceived size of other women	4.07 ± 0.13	4.34 ± 0.13	-1.488	0.140
Discrepancy between size of self vs. others	1.45 ± 0.14	0.68 ± 0.16	3.581	<0.001
Cognitive restraint	15.52 ± 0.48	16.98 ± 0.41	-2.331	0.021
Intervention
Weight loss (kg)	12.33 ± 0.33	11.53 ± 0.27	1.889	0.061
Rate of loss (kg/day)	0.102 ± 0.006	0.084 ± 0.005	2.258	0.026
1-year post-intervention1
Weight gain (kg)	5.06 ± 0.56	5.78 ± 0.57	-0.895	0.373
Fat mass gain (kg)	4.12 ± 0.77	6.08 ± 0.46	1.730	0.026
Body fat (%) gained	4.24 ± 0.54	5.98 ± 0.37	-2.730	0.008
Body fat (%)	38.22 ± 0.84	38.15 ± 0.40	0.060	0.952
Body fat (kg)	26.95 ± 0.98	26.99 ± 0.73	-0.034	0.973

¹N = 45 EA and 53 AA.