Obesity is a chronic progressive disease with a high tendency to recidivism. Weight regain is frequent after any attempts of voluntary weight loss [1]. Weight regain is frequently attributed to the lack of compliance of the patients [2]. This simplistic interpretation is based on the false assumption that body weight is entirely under volitional control and that weight loss is only a matter of self-control [3]. Weight regain was indeed attributed to the lack of motivation and self-control of the patients, thus increasing the pervasive stigmatization of people with obesity as lazy and unreliable persons [3].
