Weight Loss Surgery - Yes or No?

With your health issues you need to get the opinion of your doctors instead of us. But just based on your profile pic, you don't look like you should be considering this. Consult a registered dietician to devise a diet for you.

I think if you've tried all the methods to lose weight naturally without success and you have the money, plus your doctor recommends it, then do what you think is right. No one else can feel what it's like to be in your shoes.

I've contemplated the idea before but am now opting to go natural and put in the effort. I had some cash to burn and really wanted liposuction around my butt and thigh area.

I've always had problems with my JLO like butt even when I was thinner and I absolutely hated it. (Although ironically thanks to JLO I came to appreciate them a little more lol)

I was EXTREMELY disproportionate - my top would be a size 6/8 and my bottom a size 12. It's gotten ridiculous as I gained weight though.

But I decided to just go hard for another year and lose as much as I can from exercise and diet. If by next year I'm still not happy with the results, I'm going to splurge and get lipo done unless I find other methods of decreasing my lower bottom half without losing my top.

For people who are going to die if they don't get the weight off quickly it may an option. But I agree...a last resort only. You have to be at least 100 lbs overweight. It's a brutal surgery. The stuff Al Roker said about how he pooped his pants at the White House is just heartbreaking. I can't imagine how awful it would be to live the rest of your life like that. I would try every other option first. Seeing a Doctor is a good suggestion.

My doctors have recommended WLS to me _ I was actually supposed to go to an orientation meeting tonight - but decided agsinst it. (I've been to two before) Even if you have the surgery, you have to change your eating habits. Before you have the surgery, they make you lose 10% of your body weight.

I would talk to your doctor If you can lose weight without surgery I personally think that's the way to go.

I'd love to have the surgery because the weight falls off you like crazy - but I'm fearful of the long-term issues. Many people who have the surgery are very glad they did -- until they figure out how to go back to their old habits and regain the weight.

So now I'm eating in a more healthy way and limiting portions - and I'm losing weight. Slow and safe - that's the way I want to go. I'm not going to be on a diet for the rest of my life - but I'm going to eat healthy for the rest of my life. Once in a while I'll have my treats and enjoy them -- and I won't have to worry about pooping my pants or throwing up.

Of course, the final decision is yours. I'd learn as much as possibe first. Someone recommended obesityhelp . com. There's loads of info there. Also, call your local hospital and go to an information meeting. Tead, read, and then read some more. You want to learn the pros and the cons.

Good luck to you, whatever you chose. :flowerforyou:

I was recommended to have it about 8 years ago when I weighed 380 pounds...I decided to give myself a year and if no decent weight loss to look into the surgery (I have PCOS as well)...well 6.5 years later i a down 188 pounds. Not dissing the surgery cos I have had friends that have had success with it..but maybe give yourself a time limit and then if not happy with your progress then investigate it

For MOST it is
1. down to dr's see what they think
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2.ONLY if it is TRUELY the last resort of tryng everything else and I don't mean for a couple of weeks or even months! :noway:
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3.You have underling problems that need attention asap! :sad:
and
4. you ARE willing to put your life/relationship as we know it on it's head TOTALLY
and
5.put your life at risk!

I would never have weight loss surgery. It may take me years to lose the weight but I know I will do it one day. My personal view is that this should be done as a last resort. Each to their own though.

the same money you would spend to put a gastric band you can go to a nutricionist, who can write to you a diet where you dont have to starve and its good to your health.

If its totally the last resort and youve tried EVERYTHING else, nothing else is working and its going to benefit you because you're too big to lose weight....which I know a guy who was over 600lbs and he's managed to lose 200lbs so far NO SURERY INVOLVED.

Oh and the hugest thing of all...... IF YOU PAY FOR IT YOURSELF!!!! in the UK alone just for gastric bands it had cost taxpayers £80 million. I say if you can't afford it don't get it done!!!

My mother had WLS in 2009. She lost 15 kg on her own before the surgery and about 45 kg (100lbs) since. All up she's lost around 60kg/132lbs. She is still about 45 - 50lbs overweight, although she is tiny compared to what she used to be. Her type 2 diabetes is all but gone. But the last weight just won't budge despite the fact that she can hardly eats and she exercises frequently.

2 years after her surgery circumstances saw her move in with my family. Speaking from experience, and starting out heavier than my mother was when she had surgery, I would NEVER have it done unless I had no other option but death. She says it's the best thing she ever did, and she did have diabetes as well as high blood pressure when she had the surgery done, and had struggled with losing weight for 30 years. But honestly after living with her... she struggles, on a daily basis, to keep most food down. She has developed so many food intolerances I can't count them all, so what she can eat was severely limited. Then limit that by food that gets stuck (and has her writhing in agony for hours, and it's not always the same food), so many foods that she immediately throws up again... she can't keep enough nutrients in her diet. Her hair falls out because of lack of protein. Even coming up to four years later she still finds foods she can't eat, foods that have her running to the toilet to throw up, or worse. To me, nothing is worth that when there is an alternative.

JMHO but I'd try everything in my power to avoid surgery. I my mother's experience as my inspiration... I don't want WLS and I don't want diabetes... and I'm 27.7kg/61lbs down so far. And it's not always easy, no, but just keep going. If what you're doing doesn't work, find something that does. And I agree with another poster above who said your metabolism may need to be reset. Other than that, talk to your doctor. See what options you have apart from WLS and try everything else first.

I don't have any personal experience, but I do know 2 people who have done it.

One of them is my mother-in-law. She has lost an incredible amount of weight...HOWEVER...she has to eat like a bird now or she will throw up! She can't have more than about 1000 calories a day because her stomach can't handle more than that. She has also developed a lot of sensitivies to foods that she never had issues with before the surgery.

My friend Joe, on the other hand, hasn't had any of those issues at all. Maybe it has to do with gender? I don't know the difference, really. But he recently hit the 200 pound lost mark. He does have to eat much, much less than before or else get sick, however, he can still enjoy foods that he did before the surgery. As long as he keeps track of his intake, he doesn't have problems at all.

For myself, it will never be an option. If I ever get large again (from pregnancy or whatnot) I will simply do then what I did before and eat about 20% less than my TDEE and exercise moderately 5-6 times a week to lose weight that way.

I have heard lots of reference to corset/waist training as non surgical lap band. I was researching waist training to lose weigh. A waist training corset will squeeze your abs so that you have to eat tiny small meal often. Check out romantasy.com they have some weight loss program involving corsets and orchardcorset.com is the cheapest place to buy quality waist trading corsets.

I have no REGRETS at all having it done!

My mother had the lap band procedure done a few years ago. Her list of health issues is similar to yours and having seen her dealing with aftermath, I would say 'absolutely not unless you need it to save your life.' The diet is miserable, the maintenance is constantly and she constantly complains of feeling light headed and unwell even now. It has not helped her lose weight even following the diet and she's pretty miserable. Really, do as suggested and talk to your doctor. There are other ways.