if you have to eat to lose

shannieboo

I was in a meeting at work and of course I started to day dream. I hope someone can answer this for me.

At one time I was going to have the lapband, then the day of my pe-op my insurance changed there mind and considered it to be cosmetic surgery even though I am more then 100 lbs overweight. So of course I went to all the classes, etc to be able to have this surgery.

They told me I would not be able to eat much at all and my stomach would be the size of a golf ball. So with knowing all of this and we are to eat at least1200 a day or our bodies will go into starvation mode. Now having that surgery you will not be able to eat that much at all so wont your body go into starvation mode? Yes, you will lose but they stay after a while if your body goes into starvation mode your metabolism will stop and your body will hold on to everything your eat right?

Then how do you continue to lose weight when you have had any type of weightloss surgery?

ak_in_ak

I see what you are saying. I think it has something to do with being so overweight that your body can handle less food much better then if you were only 20 pounds over.

PalmettoparkGuy

That's why those surgeries aren't a guarantee. I knew 2 people where it failed because they didn't change their lifestyles. The one guy gained a hundred pounds.

Kelly_Wilson1990

Both my doctor and nutritionist say that is a bit of a myth. It actually takes months and months of barely eating to go into starvation mode. Both told me the body can actually survive on 600 calories a day. I did not say that was healthy but it can survive for a long time. My doctor and my nutritionist are not in the same office or even in the same town. So the same information is coming from two different sources.

DonaA123

i was wondering the same thing