Attitudes of morbidly obese patients to weight loss and body image following bariatric surgery and body contouring.

Background: The authors evaluated body image attitudes in post-obese persons following bariatric surgery who require cosmetic and body contouring operations.

Methods: We studied 20 morbidly obese women prior to biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) (OB group), 20 post-obese women at >2 years following BPD (POST group), 10 post-obese women following BPD who required cosmetic procedures (POST-A group), 10 post-obese women after BPD and subsequent cosmetic surgery (POST-B group), and 20 healthy lean controls. Attitudes to weight and shape were evaluated by means of the Body Uneasiness Test (BUT).