re: Gastric Bypass/"Sleeve" Surgery

I had it done nearly 6 years ago. Lost about 100 lbs and kept every lb off. Topped it off with a tummy tuck that I barely needed and a breast lift with implants. I weigh about 111 lbs and maintain a healthy diet and exercise. Unfortunately I sill have terrible reflux. I had a hiatal hernia that was repaired at the time of the sleeve surgery, but that repair did not hold. The risks and benefits have paid off for me. I’m active with my family, turned into a bit of a runner and I will I say I think I look great. My arms and legs are thin and fit. I HAD an unrelated cancer and my oncologist who did that surgery and has seen every part of my body refused to believe I had ever been overweight. For me it was certainly worth it.

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Here's the thing, you aren't hungry. When you think you're "hungry" drink something and wait 30 minutes and you realize you aren't hungry.

Your body is not hungry 5 hours after eating something.

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You'll have to define what you call hunger. Your brain signals hunger based on what the brain expects to get when it expects to get it. Hunger is not a signal that you are in dire need of calories. Drinking water can cause your brain to signal a full stomach.

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Your body is not hungry 5 hours after eating something.

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Again, based on definition but I personally eat 3 meals a day 5-6 hours apart. I'm often hungry before I go and eat, nut usually only slightly before. I have fasted before and found that after a few days of fasting one or two meals my hunger signalling is modified.

I have also read that people subject to long periods with low on nonexistent food supplies (such as in a famine) seem to have muted hunger responses that eventually all but disappear.

The willpower needed is simply the ability to resist your brain signalling you to eat in order to eventually reprogram those hunger responses. That can take weeks or even longer.

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Yeah, no one is going to trust advice from a cat that only eats lasagna.

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Look back at older TV shows/movies. The people who played the “fat” character would be considered normal size nowadays.

Garfield’s looking pretty good these days.

Hell, Homer Simpson no longer looks fatter than the normal middle aged man.

My ex wife had gastric bypass surgery and went from 280+ down to 140 and has kept it off for about 6 years now. Course she lost a whole person, and decided she was God's gift to man, and woman....

What they don't generally tell you in counselling is that 80% of couples who one or the other or both has this done leads straight down the Divorce road.

Know a couple of people who had it. Lost a lot of weight at first, gained some of it back, but not all of it. They are slightly chunky now instead of morbidly obese. If you asked them, they'd probably deem it a success.

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What they don't generally tell you in counselling is that 80% of couples who one or the other or both has this done leads straight down the Divorce road.

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There are a good few unexpected possible consequences. They've found recently that the rate of alcoholism increases dramatically (something like 1 out of 5) of gastric bypass surgeries. At first they thought it was an addiction transfer (from food to alcohol) but recently they've discovered that it's more related to how alcohol impacts the body after the bypass (basically, you get drunk "better" or said another way, alcohol is much more enjoyable post bypass).

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No loose skin?

People that get this done generally make no effort to actually change what they eat or exercise, so they just go right back to what they were doing to get there. Girl I went to school with did that, gained weight back, then did it the hard way and kept it off.