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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 846401, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/846401 Research Article Eating and Psychological Profiles of Women with Higher Depressive Symptoms Who Are Trying to Lose Weight ´ ´ C. Begin, S. De Grandpre, and M.-P. Gagnon-Girouard School of Psychology, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada G1V 0A6 ´ Correspondence should be addressed to C. Begin, catherine.begin@psy.ulaval.ca Received 5 December 2011; Revised 23 April 2012; Accepted 15 June 2012 Academic Editor: Jutta Mata ´ Copyright © 2012 C. Begin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The aim of this study was to determine whether women with higher depressive symptoms differed from women with lower depressive symptoms on early weight-loss, eating behaviors and psychological profiles. Among a sample of 45 overweight/obese women who had undertaken a self-initiated weight-loss attempt, two groups were formed based on scores from the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), one with lower depressive symptoms (BDI-II 10; n = 21) and one with higher depressive symptoms (BDI ≥ 10; n = 24). Even if some women in the higher depressive symptom group did not reach the clinical cut- off for depression (BDI = 14), this group tended to lose less weight in the first two months of their weight-loss attempt and to show a more disturbed eating and psychological profile compared to the group with lower depressive symptoms. In