The experience of regaining weight following weight loss surgery

A narrative-phenomenological exploration

Bibliographic Data

ID15216827
AuthorsKaren Synne Groven (0000-0002-5208-0714, University of Oslo, corresponding author), Nicole M Glenn (Université de Montréal)
Year2016
Volume37
Issue11
Pages1185-1202
Publication date2016-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399332.2016.1195386
PMID27249448
OpenAlexW2472862530
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited40

Weight loss surgery (WLS) is gaining ground as the most effective treatment against obesity. In the literature, however, we see a divide among individuals who have undergone WLS based on the amount of weight lost and maintained: successful and unsuccessful patients. In this article, we focus on the notion of unsuccessful patients-exploring the accounts of three women who have regained weight following WLS. In doing so, we endeavor to better understand how weight regain has meaning, and its impact and implications for the lives of individuals who undergo WLS. The findings reveal how weight-regain stories are easily silenced, buried beneath social, cultural, and institutional/medical narratives of successful weight loss and transformation. People who have such experiences may feel reticent to reveal them and in doing so increase their own suffering, therefore leaving the popular narratives unchallenged

Aesthetics · Art · Gastric bypass · Hermeneutic phenomenology · Literature · Lived experience · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Obesity · Psychotherapist · Weight loss · Weight Loss Surgery · Body Contouring and Surgery · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology

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