Endocrine Abstracts

We analyzed the eating behavior and physical activity in patients operated in our obesity surgery center and their relation to weight loss. We mailed to patients a simple self-questionnaire to assess the use of eating or physical activity advices given from our stuff during the preoperative period. Patients had a bariatric surgery from September 1, 2013 to August 2016 Questionnaires were collected during their follow-up (September 2017). One hundred forty four out of 750 patients answered this questionnaire. The mean age was 45±10.48 years, 81% were women, the average BMI before intervention was 45.03±7.1 kg/m² and 133 had longitudinal sleeve gastrectomy. The mean BMI loss was 13.92 kg/m² and the average follow-up 2.07 years. Analysis of the questionnaires revealed that 64% of patients had physical activity that lasted less than 30 min/day Among patients 46% declared abnormal hungriness, 60% completed their meal in less than 20 min, 18.7% had regular chewing gum consumption, 32% had more than three snacks a week in, 66% had sugar consumption more than twice a week in, and 18% had less than three meals a day Female sex and a meal duration <20 min and meal duration <20 min were significantly related to lower BMI loss (13.4 vs 15.8 kg/m², P=0.0049; 13.6 vs 14.4 kg/m², P=0.0002; 12.2 vs 14.3 kg/m², P=0.0307; respectively). Fast eating was related to a lower weight loss in bariatric surgery patients.