Comments there ask the same question I always have but never can find a satisfactory answer to:
He had to lose 100 pounds to get the surgery. If he was able to lose 100 pounds without surgery why have surgery??
Also:
Doesn’t having this radical surgery with its attendant digestive problems like inability to absorb certain nutrients shorten your life span just like severe obesity does?
Would love honest FR knowledge on these two issues.
Okay, I’ll give this a shot. Probably too much info but... Five years ago, I weighed 550#. I currently weight 300#. Here’s what happens:
The first 100 pounds was child’s play: I lost it in six months. Piece o’ cake. Second hundred... Not so fast, at all. In fact, I cut my daily caloric intake to 1400 and stayed at the same weight. I just about gave up when I had to cut my calories to 1200 (!) in order to lose a half-pound a week. I felt like death warmed over and served with a side of gravy. At this point, I considered surgery. Eventually, I said “Nope. You got yourself into this mess, you can get yourself out of it.” After a LOT of sciencing stuff, and not changing a blessed thing, I lost another 100# in another year.
At this point, it’s rinse-and-repeat. I hit my stride — neither gaining or losing — for about a year, then the weight drops off again. For some people, they want that steady weight loss and it just doesn’t happen. Surgery becomes the option.
As for the detrimental effects of the surgery, I was assured over and over that there were not serious side effects. I chose not to believe them simply because the human body is a vast machinery of give and take: I was taking something from it and I wasn’t sure what it could give back.
So that’s the way I see it. Anecdotal, but so is the rest of the Internet. :) Hope this helps at least a little.
Doesn’t having this radical surgery with its attendant digestive problems like inability to absorb certain nutrients shorten your life span just like severe obesity does?
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Bariatric surgery can cause B1 deficiency and permanent brain damage.
He had to lose 100 pounds to get the surgery. If he was able to lose 100 pounds without surgery why have surgery??
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A lot of people reduce their weight and later increase it. People stop smoking, and sometimes start again.