“She works fulltime, is a mother and reported swimming three times a week, but had repeatedly failed at dieting, quickly regaining weight after relapsing.
Dr B explained to her the necessity of patients changing their lifestyle and dieting if they were to shed kilos and maintain their new weight after the operation.
She told him she disliked the word “diet” and preferred to talk about “lifestyle”.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10625459&pnum=0 It’s the patient who has the problem.
If you were not provided a diet to follow before your surgery, you should not have been surgerized.
If you were on a diet first and failed, the following may have injured you:
author
endorser (expert who endorses another’s weight loss program)
publisher
media outlet (promoting the book or weight loss program)
media personality (touting the book or weight loss program)
physician
medical organization
nutritionist
dietitian
medical center
weight loss clinic
commercial weight loss company
pharmaceutical company
trainer
food company
If the diet:
reduced your daily caloric intake by 500 - 1000 Calories per day or more
advertised a 1 -2 pounds weight loss per week or more
had you eating fewer Calories per day than your basal metabolic rate (BMR)
claimed that to lose one pound per week you had to reduce your caloric intake by 500 Calories per day
claimed that to lose two pounds per week you had to reduce your caloric intake by 1000 Calories per day
reduced your daily caloric intake and advised you to exercise to burn 300 or more Calories per day
reduced your caloric intake and informed you that you can add muscle by exercising
claimed that one pound of muscle burns 35 or more Calories per day at rest
had a food product associated with it (e.g., bars, supplements, meals)
If before your surgery, you were either not on a diet or failed on a diet, then the following may have injured you:
your surgeon
the hospital
your referring physician
http://www.fitnesslaw.com/if_you_had_bariatric_surgery.htm
If she didn’t like the advice, she could go elsewhere.
If your body mass index (BMI) is extremely high, it is likely that your physician will require you to lose weight prior to the surgery to reduce the amount of fat surrounding your abdomen. Many of the risks of the surgery are caused by obesity-related health problems. Consequently, this weight loss should help to reduce gastric bypass surgery complications.
Complications can include:
1. Bowel obstruction
2. Complications from anesthesia
3. Death
4. Deep vein thrombosis
5. Deficiency in proteins, vitamins and minerals
6. Dehiscence (the premature “bursting” open of a wound along surgical suture)
7. Gallstones
8. Gastrointestinal tract leak
9. Infections
10. Kidney stones and/or kidney failure
11. Leaks from staple line breakdown
12. Low blood sugars (hypoglycemia)
13. Marginal ulcers
14. Nerve problems
15. Post-surgery bleeding
16. Pulmonary embolism (a blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches)
17. Spleen injury
18. Stenosis or stricture (abnormal narrowing in a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure)
Of course, it is always preferable to avoid surgery by making an honest effort to eat properly and to exercise in sufficient amounts on a regular basis. Gastric bypass surgery complications can be avoided completely if you can simply avoid having the surgery through diet and exercise.
Gastric-Bypass-Site.com is an excellent place to find more advice about gastric bypass surgery complications. If you are worried about gastric bypass problems, it would be worth your time to check out this Gastric Bypass site.
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