My understanding was that since the stomach is a lot smaller, you can only handle small portion sizes and that’s how you end up losing weight and having it stay off. I do coding for a medical clinic and I see a fair amount of chart notes of people who had the procedure done (and not the temporary one where they can remove the band, either), and they end up gaining a ton of weight back a few years later.
How/why does that happen? Is it the body adjusting somehow?
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Most people are obese because they have some sort of addiction to food. Bariatric surgery doesn’t solve this problem. It simply limits how much food they can eat at a time. (Won’t stop them from eating TONS of food, spread out). The stomach slowly expands again to accommodate.
The vast, VAST majority of people who have the surgery gain the weight back, and quite a few ultimately die from complications of the surgery. There’s a reasonable case to be made that the surgery itself is more dangerous than the weight…… And since it USUALLY doesn’t solve the problem anyway, it’s surprising the FDA hasn’t banned it.
Food addiction is a VERY real thing. And the majority of Americans are massively overweight, combat the problem with diet, and don’t realize that they’re treating a SYMPTOM, and not the core problem. (Sugar is HIGHLY addictive, and it’s a major contributor to the problem).
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