Table Box 1.
Websites recently visited by participants
| Description of website | Website | URL address |
|---|---|---|
| Dieting and weight loss information, products (e.g. food diaries, weight loss progress charts, and calorie counters) and services (e.g. commercial diet companies). | The Atkins Diet | http://www.atkins.com |
| Jenny Craig | http://www.jennycraig.com.au | |
| Lite N Easy | http://www.liteneasy.com.au | |
| The Zone Diet | http://www.drsears.com | |
| Weight watchers | http://www.weightwatchers.com.au | |
| TOWN (take off weight naturally) | http://www.townclubs.com.au | |
| CSIRO Total well being diet | http://www.csiro.au/science/TWD.html | |
| The Biggest Loser Club | http://www.thebiggestloser.com.au | |
| Blackmores weight management | http://www.beyondyourbest.blackmores.com.au/shape | |
| Gutbusters | No longer accessible | |
| Health crusaders | http://www.healthcrusaders.com.au | |
| Sue Stanley Health & Wellbeing | https://www.suestanley.com.au | |
| The Lemon Detox Diet | http://www.lemondetox.com.au | |
| The Soup Diet | http://www.kickstartdiet.com.au | |
| Dr Amanda ‘connect with your body’ | http://www.dramandaonline.com | |
| The Gabriel Method | http://www.jongabriel.com.au/ | |
| Dr Tickell – The Fat Club | http://www.drjohntickell.com/site‐wide/all/fat‐club‐262.html | |
| 3 Fat Chicks on a diet | http://www.3fatchicks.com | |
| Losing weight for idiots | http://www2.fatloss4idiots.com | |
| “The New Me” weight loss retreat | http://www.thenewme.com.au | |
| Calorie King | http://www.calorieking.com.au | |
| Cross Trainer | http://www.crosstrainer.com | |
| Skinnyr | http://www.skinnyr.com/ | |
| Optifast | http://www.optifast.com.au | |
| Optislim | http://www.optislim.com.au | |
| Tony Ferguson | http://www.tonyferguson.com | |
| Trim meal replacements | http://www.trimbodysystem.com.au | |
| Oprah Winfrey | http://www.oprah.com/ | |
| Pharmaceutical interventions | Xenical | http://www.xenical.com.au |
| Clinics, surgeons, and information about obesity surgery. | Ozband | http://www.ozband.com |
| Epworth Obesity Clinic site | http://www.obesity.com.au | |
| Gastric Banding Surgery | http://www.lapband.com.au | |
| Medical and scientific websites related to obesity and the health conditions associated with it. | American Medical Association | http://www.ama‐assn.org |
| Diabetes Australia | http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au | |
| Diabetes Victoria | http://www.diabetesvic.org.au | |
| Cancer Council Australia | http://www.cancer.org.au | |
| Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association of Australia | http://www.posaa.asn.au | |
| Practiva health | http://www.practivahealth.com | |
| The Heart Foundation | http://www.heartfoundation.org.au | |
| Mayo Clinic | http://www.mayoclinic.com | |
| If not dieting then what? | http://www.ifnotdieting.com.au | |
| The Lancet | http://www.thelancet.com | |
| Public health and other government run websites relating to obesity, health and wellbeing. | 10,000 steps | http://www.10000steps.org.au |
| ABC Health and Wellbeing | http://www.abc.net.au/health | |
| ACT Health | http://www.health.act.gov.au/c/health | |
| Better Health Channel | http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au | |
| Go For Your Life | http://www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au | |
| I Village – Your Total Health | http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet‐fitness | |
| Monash Health and Wellbeing site | http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/community‐services | |
| Revolution Health | http://www.revolutionhealth.com | |
| The Department of Health & Ageing | http://www.health.gov.au | |
| Victorian Department of Health | http://www.health.vic.gov.au | |
| Vic Health | http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au | |
| Wellbeing | http://www.wellbeing.com.au | |
| Weight loss support groups. | Liquid diet discussion board | http://www.liquiddietdiscussion.com |
| Tony Ferguson weight loss forum | http://forum.tonyferguson.com | |
| Yahoo Groups – Weight Watchers Forum | http://au.messages.yahoo.com/lifestyle/Yahoosupportgroup/ | |
| Yahoo Groups – Jewish Weight Watchers | http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Jewish_Weight_Watchers/ | |
| Yahoo Groups –“Gold Coast Bandsters”: | http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/GoldCoastBandsters | |
| Yahoo Groups – The Lap band Surgery Forum | http://au.messages.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lap‐band/ | |
| Facebook lap banding groups | http://www.facebook.com | |
| Fat acceptance websites and blogs. | Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose | http://kateharding.net |
| Fatosphere | http://www.fatosphere.blogspot.com | |
| Junk Food Science | http://www.junkfoodscience.blogspot.com | |
| Big Fat Blog – The Fat Acceptance Weblog | http://www.bigfatblog.com | |
| National Association to advance Fat Acceptance | http://www.naafa.org |