Introduction
obesity, weight loss
OBESITY
Across the world there are over a billion individuals living with obesity (13% prevalence of a BMI >30kg/m2) [The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that bariatric surgery should be supplemented by psychological support, though it does not specify a particular therapy modality [Analysis of the psychological profile of patients living with obesity found poor self-regulation and negative mood as the strongest predictors of variance in weight loss [Support for this comes from a recent systematic review [In previous studies of ACT for weight management [Despite guidelines recommending psychological interventions in post-operative care, routine clinical practice has not caught up [