Surgery seems to be no big deal these days. Got a little imperfection- no worries, just get it shaved, nipped, tucked or removed. Hell, if Heidi Montag can have 10 surgeries in one day, what’s one little operation gunna hurt?
Cosmetic surgery may seem harmless to most, but surgery is a big deal. There are life threatening dangers and complications that are not to be taken lightly.
But what if that elective surgery was to potentially save your life? Would the risks be worth it?
The popularity of weight loss surgery has exploded in the past few years. People keep getting fatter, and lazier, and want quick results. Some are so morbidly obese that their weight will inevitably kill them- it’s just a matter of time.
Getting the weight off as quickly as possible is the only solution for some, but for many, they have the time to lose the weight quickly and safely, surgery just seems like an easier, more permanent measure. They, however, bypass (excuse pun) one important factor: their health.
Health? Who cares? This is about losing weight!
A healthy weight is a natural side effect of being healthy- which takes exercise and proper nutrition. Most people put the cart before the horse and make the goal about weight- which is fine, if it leads you to a clean diet and exercise, but for most people it sends them straight to a doctor’s office.
Taking the easy way out is selling yourself short, dangerous, and only tackling part of the problem.
Gastric Bypass and the Lap Band surgery are the most popular surgical weight loss methods. Gastric Bypass surgery is where a chunk of the stomach is surgically removed, making it smaller, and unable to hold much food. It’s expensive, invasive, dangerous (1 in 350 people die) and irreversible. It’s forced starvation, yet many people gain the weight back because they still don’t know how to eat properly and over time stretch the remaining portion back out. Vomiting is also very common as most people are unable to decipher hunger cues and over fill the stomach.
The Lap Band surgery is the same principle, blocking off part of the stomach, except a rubber band is placed around the stomach. The band often slips, and has to be fixed with more surgery. Your tiny tummy doesn’t allow you to eat more than a few bites of food at a time, which makes getting a well balanced diet nearly impossible, and causes many vitamin and mineral deficiencies (but who cares if you’re thin, right!?) Because of the shrunken stomach, patients must follow a strict diet to reduce complications and to not damage the stomach after surgery. If you have to follow a strict diet anyway, why not just follow a healthy one to lose weight, and leave surgery out of it?
Liposuction is a cosmetic surgery where fat is sucked directly from the body. People often look to lipo as a miracle cure, but lipo is meant to be a spot treatment, to lipo multiple areas of the body can be very traumatic and a horribly painful recovery. Fat and blood clots can occur and travel to the lungs causing death. Nerves and skin can be damaged causing intense pain and a puckered, bruised, wrinkly appearance.
And you thought making it into the gym was painful.
Approximately 1/3 of people who have weight loss surgery need a followup surgery to fix complications.
You need to learn how to eat healthily to make a lifelong change. Something got you over weight in the first place, and until you start taking care of yourself the right way, and not the easy way, that weight will come right back on- even after a major surgery.
Besides, if you didn’t work for it, will you ever really be proud of it?
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Natural way of loosing weight is the best such as exercises and eating balance diet instead of preferring surgery
Lap Band surgery is the natural way of losing weight. No more dieting or weight loss programs required to shed your weight. I know one of my friends who went through this weight loss surgery and now he is actually enjoying his life. He just takes care of his diet and continues doing some regular exercises. People that are over-weight should go through this surgery after a consultation with surgeons, as my friend did before going through the surgery. Surgeons at Oband center explain the process clearly so that one can have an proper idea how this surgery works.
You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. People like you crack me up!
I am Tom and my weight is 450 pounds. I was searching for Los Angeles Weigth Loss Surgeons on the suggestion of my friend. Can anyone tell me the post surgery results of lap band surgery?