Weight Control After Substantial Weight Loss - Com - 2007/05/11 23:46
Surgical treatments for obesity produce large, well-maintained weight losses as well as improvements in psychosocial functioning. It has been suggested that large weight losses achieved through non-surgical means may produce adverse changes in psychosocial functioning. The purpose of this study was to compare psychosocial functioning and weight maintenance behaviors in registry members who lost large amounts of weight through surgical versus non-surgical means. Both groups reported that weight loss had led to significant improvements in many areas of life, and members who used non-surgical means to lose weight were no more likely than surgical patients to report symptoms of depression or disordered eating. The surgical group reported eating a diet higher in fat, and were much lower in physical activity, than the non-surgical group. Thus, while both groups are functioning well and maintaining significant weight losses, they appear to be using very different behaviors to maintain the weight losses.
(Source: Klem, M.L., Wing, R.R., Chang, C.H., Lang, W., McGuire, M.T., Sugerman, H.J., Hutchison, S.L., Makovich, A.L., and Hill, J.O. (In press). A case-control study of successful maintenance of a substantial weight loss: Individuals who lost weight through surgery versus those who lost weight through non-surgical means. International Journal of Obesity.)
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