“…Although several studies have analysed preoperative predictors of WL after BS, detecting personality traits, cognitive function, mental health, and binge eating as negative factors (Agüera et al, 2015;García-Ruiz-de-Gordejuela et al, 2017;Wimmelmann, Dela, & Mortensen, 2014), only few studies have explored predictors of poor WL achievement prior to BS. Predictors for poor WL prior to BS include being female and non-Caucasian (Hutcheon, Byham-Gray, Marcus, Scott, & Miller, 2017), a high snacking frequency (Bergh, Lundin Kvalem, Risstad, & Sniehotta, 2016), the presence of depressive symptomatology (Nicolau et al, 2017), and having a number of comorbidities (Bergh, Kvalem, Risstad, Cameron, & Sniehotta, 2015).…”