Introduction
weight loss
Patients’ ability to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle, including regular physical exercise and a healthy diet, is paramount to reaching and maintaining weight loss and optimal health outcomes long after bariatric surgery [Attachment style impacts health through its influence on health behaviours, symptom perception, amplification and reporting, healthcare use, stress response, emotion regulation, and access to social support [Self-esteem and self-efficacy are promising mediators of the relationship between attachment style and health behaviours, given previous findings identifying differences in self-esteem and self-efficacy between different attachment styles. Furthermore, both variables are malleable traits, rendering them useful for clinical practice [In addition to self-esteem, individuals’ belief in their ability to achieve a particular goal or outcome (i.e., self-efficacy) is an important predictor of the actual behaviour [