I know of two people who have had a gastric bypass: my mother and my boyfriends stephmother, and there were two different reasons for them to get surgery, and two completely different resuts after the surgery.
the stephmother: she is rather typical, she has a hard time to motivate her self to exercise and eat right, and can never stay on a diet for more than a couple of days.
her husband has tried to go on diets with her to motivate her, but it would always end with him dieting alone. when the whole family goes camping or hiking, which happens fairly often, she will always stay home and watch TV, because she doesen't like to hike, bike, run, swim, skii or well anything that requires movement.
in sweden if you manage to convince a psychiatrist that you know no other way and say that you feel deeply depressed, you can have the surgery practically for free, and this she did.
so she had the surgery, lost a pretty good ammount of weight, went back to her old diet and she is right back at where she started.
she had her surgery 5 years ago.
my mother: she might not always have done the best choices when it comes to food, but when she made her mind up she would be very dedicated, but her overweight had caused permanent damage to her bones, so she could'n exercise properly, and she was really depressed, she had no energy or motivation left to take care of her self, so she would always smell rather strange and look terribly tired.
when she got the surgery she lost a huge ammount of weight, making it possible for her to exercise, and so she still does regularly, and she still pretty much keeps to the diet recommended by the doctors.
she is now a completely different person, she has so much more energy and so much more happy.
The surgery was the push she needed, and she had it 4 years ago.
sometimes, the surgery is something good, and a neccessity, but sometimes it is just an easy way out.
do it for the right reasons, because if you don't, you will fall back to square one any way.
Btw, strange side effect: people that have gone through a gastric bypass always seem more sensitive to cold than other people.
EDIT: and for all of you who think these surgeries goes with out effort, let me tell you: it doesten't.
there is a certain diet you need to follow before the surgery for 2 weeks where you only eat liquid food in order to shrink the liver and minimize the risks during the surgery, and if you are too fat you can't even have the surgery until you have lost a few kilos on your own.
and depending on the effort you put in to loosing weight after the surgery the better results you'll get, and after the surgery there is a strict diet one needs to follow and several steps before one can even consider eating normal food again, and this is a painful process.
The surgery is a boost not a soloution.
the stephmother: she is rather typical, she has a hard time to motivate her self to exercise and eat right, and can never stay on a diet for more than a couple of days.
her husband has tried to go on diets with her to motivate her, but it would always end with him dieting alone. when the whole family goes camping or hiking, which happens fairly often, she will always stay home and watch TV, because she doesen't like to hike, bike, run, swim, skii or well anything that requires movement.
in sweden if you manage to convince a psychiatrist that you know no other way and say that you feel deeply depressed, you can have the surgery practically for free, and this she did.
so she had the surgery, lost a pretty good ammount of weight, went back to her old diet and she is right back at where she started.
she had her surgery 5 years ago.
my mother: she might not always have done the best choices when it comes to food, but when she made her mind up she would be very dedicated, but her overweight had caused permanent damage to her bones, so she could'n exercise properly, and she was really depressed, she had no energy or motivation left to take care of her self, so she would always smell rather strange and look terribly tired.
when she got the surgery she lost a huge ammount of weight, making it possible for her to exercise, and so she still does regularly, and she still pretty much keeps to the diet recommended by the doctors.
she is now a completely different person, she has so much more energy and so much more happy.
The surgery was the push she needed, and she had it 4 years ago.
sometimes, the surgery is something good, and a neccessity, but sometimes it is just an easy way out.
do it for the right reasons, because if you don't, you will fall back to square one any way.
Btw, strange side effect: people that have gone through a gastric bypass always seem more sensitive to cold than other people.
EDIT: and for all of you who think these surgeries goes with out effort, let me tell you: it doesten't.
there is a certain diet you need to follow before the surgery for 2 weeks where you only eat liquid food in order to shrink the liver and minimize the risks during the surgery, and if you are too fat you can't even have the surgery until you have lost a few kilos on your own.
and depending on the effort you put in to loosing weight after the surgery the better results you'll get, and after the surgery there is a strict diet one needs to follow and several steps before one can even consider eating normal food again, and this is a painful process.
The surgery is a boost not a soloution.
