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Should You Have Gastric Bypass Surgery?

Guest Author — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:39:28 +0000

Having excess amounts of fat in our bodies can lead to various health conditions such as high blood pressure, increased cholesterol, heart attacks, etc. Being obese can have adverse effects in your life. Your weight can result in a reduced life expectancy level. You obviously wouldn’t want that happening when there are ways of getting that excess fat removed.

Whilst there are different kinds of procedures carried out to lose weight, etc, the gastric bypass surgery is an operation carried out to treat morbid obesity. Simply stated, a gastric bypass surgery makes an individual’s stomach smaller. Once a person completes the surgery, he or she will feel like the stomach is already full even when a less amount of food is consumed. This makes your body absorb only a few calories.

Doing a gastric bypass surgery means that the stomach and intestinal system will be restructured. This will in turn make you feel like your stomach is already full, thus resulting in your body absorbing less calories.

The gastric bypass surgery is actually a simple process that will require a person to stay in the hospital for 2 or 6 days. Within three or five weeks, you’d be able to recommence your usual activities.

Studies show that most individuals who do the gastric bypass surgery lose around 60% to 80% of their excess body fat and thus their weight. This loss of weight can occur between the first six months and can continue for the years that follow up.

Are you a diabetic patient? Do you suffer from high blood pressure? The gastric bypass surgery can minimize or even eliminate such health problems over the years. Since there are no implantable devices or any foreign materials in the body after the gastric bypass surgery, you need not worry about the whole process.

There are also a few disadvantages when it comes to gastric bypass surgery. Since the whole operation is irreversible, your body will be permanently changed and the way your body digests food will be quite different from other people. When the body’s ability of absorbing food is restructured, he or she can start to have nutritional deficiencies leading to osteoporosis, anemia, etc. In addition to this, having undigested stomach contents move in too quickly to the intestines could result in ‘dumping syndrome’.

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When the author isn’t studying bypass surgery, she’s a fan of psychic readings, the BMW Z4 windscreen windblocker wind deflector, and the Seattle HCG Diet.

Sat 03/20 WLL … Final Advice & Goodbye from AllisonPacino:Get Back Up Every Time!!

Guest Author — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:55:12 +0000

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Thank you for supporting me and this channel!

Special thanks to my dear friend AJ for editing all of my WLL videos…I appreciate all you’ve done!

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Duration : 0:5:33

Sat 02/20 WLL … Pushing the Envelope – Comfort is overrated!?

Guest Author — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:37:15 +0000

This week we’re answering the question: MIND: What is one part of your weight loss journey that has really challenged you and pushed you out of your comfort zone? How did you grow from that experience?

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Duration : 0:4:20

The “Gold Standard” in Weight Loss?

Guest Author — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:31:09 +0000

At age 61, Chardelle Blasberg underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost approximately 160 lbs. Dr. Jennifer Ashton discusses the risks and benefits of obesity surgery.

Duration : 0:8:16

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WLS Journey! RNY! Weight Loss Progress Pics! Down 145 lbs.

Guest Author — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:44:08 +0000

My Gastric Bypass Journey
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Duration : 0:2:41

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Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Cancer

Guest Author — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:31:08 +0000

Its already known that weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart problems. Now, new research shows that it may also cut a persons risk of cancer by 80-percent. http://www.sciencentral.com/video/

Duration : 0:1:51

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THE SHAKES-POPCORN-AND-ICE-CREAM-DIET!

Guest Author — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:53:11 +0000

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I’ve dieted for more than 45 years. I’ve lost weight on Atkins and Weight Watchers and always gained back more. I gave up on dieting and trying to lose weight and believed it was something totally unattainable for me.
I ended up in a wheel chair and needing oxygen, not a happy place to be, and realized if I didn’t do something I was going to die. Dramatic, yes, I would say so. First, I went to my “primary” Doctor who thought I should have the gastric bypass operation and sent me to the bariatric surgeon in Miami as the only hope of saving myself. The surgeon scheduled me as well as about 200 other previous patients and potential patients to attend a two hour support group meeting, in a small auditorium. They discussed how this procedure saved their lives and attested that it was the best gift they gave to themselves, since not all insurance companies cover the procedure and you have to dig deep into your pocket to pay for it. I set up the private consultation with the Doctor and I was ready to have my stomach cut out, stapled, bypassed or anything else I could do in order to become a new person. The meeting with the Doctor went well. He explained all the possibilities and told of all the possible mishaps and complications that could happen such as dying or becoming a vegetable but the odds of that happening were only 2 in every 100 patients, with complications hovering around 10%. Not encouraging but I had to have it – live or die!
An appointment was made and a week later I was in the waiting room of my cardiologist! In I go to the office after waiting an hour and fifteen minutes and we exchange all of our pleasantries about how I am and what’s been going on. I told him I was there because I needed his clearance for stomach bypass surgery before they operate. “Sorry I can’t do that” and I said “why not?” He answered “Because if you have the surgery, you won’t get up off the operating table alive… Your heart can’t take it.” “You’re kidding” I said. “No I’m not!” he said. “Then what the am I going to do?, I asked. If I stay like this I’m going to die anyway!” I was really depressed and desperate. I thought my life was over. I just couldn’t imagine not having the surgery; it just never entered my mind!
“Pretend you had it!” he said. “Do everything you would do as if you had it. The surgery doesn’t cut out your weight; it only makes your stomach smaller. Your brain is still the same brain that wants to eat. So you can eat whatever those who have had the surgery eat. True they had the surgery, and it might be a little harder for you, but just pretend, you had it!”
I left in a total state of disappointment and dejection, and just didn’t know what to do. Certainly I couldn’t just pretend. I haven’t been able to cut my eating down before, by eating salads and watching every morsel I ate. This was stuff I just didn’t eat and don’t want to eat and I couldn’t just eat a little of this and a little of that. So, I stayed depressed and continued eating for about two more months, just feeling hopeless. Then my brother, to whom I was telling all my woes, tells me he’s having the gastric bypass surgery in California at UCLA. for more information about our book Visit http://www.lulu.com/content/3383366 and buy a copy of my book to get your sexy body back!

Duration : 0:3:24

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Teenage Obesity and Weight Loss Treatments

Guest Author — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:42:11 +0000

Teenagers discuss the struggles with obesity, and treatment options available.

Duration : 0:1:45

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Full Body…(clothed of course!)

Guest Author — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:44:06 +0000

You asked for it, to see all of me so here. LOL

Duration : 0:1:38

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LOVINGRAW 1: Weight Loss Man Loses 125 lbs

Guest Author — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:53:08 +0000

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I introduce my story with before and after pictures and a brief bio on how I lost 125lbs and change my life with raw foods.

To date I have lost nearly 200 lbs with the raw food lifestyle! More videos to come so stay tuned and subscribe on my YouTube page and on my website lovingraw.com!

Filmed: 9/24/07

Duration : 0:5:26

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