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Table 1 Interviewguide

From: What a weight loss programme should contain if people with obesity were asked - a qualitative analysis within the DO:IT study

Interview questions

Daily life and overweight/obesity

- Please describe a normal day/weekend

- How do you experience your daily life?

- What is most important to you during the day/week?

- Do you feel prevented in doing things you find important because of your overweight/obesity?

- How do you experience time in your daily life related to changing lifestyle?

- How would you plan your daily life to change lifestyle? Is there anything you would do more/less?

Experiences with weight loss attempts

- Please tell me about your experiences with weight loss attempt(s)? What did you do/not do to maintain the weight loss?

- How do you experience not having succeed with keeping the weight loss?

- Do you believe in succeeding with a weight loss process?

- What was/is most important for your wish to lose weight? (social factors/fear of getting sick)?

- Imagen you had succeed in a weight loss and kept the weight loss what do you believe would have supported this success?

Concrete wishes for the content of a weight loss program

- Based on your experiences with weight loss what would you expect for a weight loss program?

- Have should the program be structured for you to participate? (what goals, content, group/individual, how long, where?).

- Who or what could support you in a weight loss program? Both before, during and after?

- How would you expect to be supported?

- Have you ever rejected a weight loss program offered from the GP or others? Why?

- Any last comments?