[Self-acceptance motivation and expectations for loosing weight in obese women]

The objective of the study was to determine acceptance, motivation and expectations for loosing weight in obese women. The study included 189 under weight and obese women at the age of 22-65 years (44.3 +/- 10.4 years), with BMI from 25 to 46 kg/m2 (32.4 +/- 4.5 kg/m2), patients from Warsaw University of Life Science Dietary Counseling. Women divided by the degree of under weight and age. The acceptance, motivation and expectations for loosing weight was evaluated on the strength of ours questionnaire, witch was create especially for this aim. Age of obese women influenced on their self acceptance, women at the age of 30-50 years better approve their body weight than others. Degree of under weight influenced on self-confidence and their expectation of acceptance after loosing weight. The most important factors to loosing weight for women after 50 years old was health and the meetings with person who had the problem, but for women before 40 years old was more motivated by relatives.