Last Resort- Gastric Bypass Surgery

Your body is a temple, right? I think the first person to say that meant it in a good way. They didn't mean to compare the body to a large tomb-like structure that one feels trapped in. However, that's how the body can feel sometimes, especially when you're struggling with excess weight, and don't know where to begin in trying to get it off. People in this condition often feel as though they are trapped in a suit, or are living in someone else's body. They struggle to maneuver it, struggle with the restrictions, the low self-esteem, and accepting that if they never lose the weight it will remain their entire life, or may actually shorten it significantly. There are as many diet pills, diet programs, and exercise routines out there as there are pounds that you'd like to lose to get healthy and feel confident again-- where do you go from here?

Frankly, most women have been on several diets, and tried various exercise programs by the time they graduate from high school, and the numbers increase as we age. If you have exhausted every traditional form of diet and exercise, you surmise that you need a push, not external with a trainers voice, but internal. The internal push that many women and men have turned to in the past decade to assist them with altering their morbidly obese status, is to resort to the advent of gastric bypass surgery. It is indeed a last resort procedure for obese patients who have tried many methods to get healthy and lose the weight, but the will power to maintain that lifelong journey is a habit that must be learned.

Patients have to keep in mind that gastric bypass surgery is not a cure all; it is a serious surgery with its own complications, which can and has helped individuals control their appetite and food consumption. But a lot of work has to go into preparing for the surgery, recovery, and a lifetime of maintenance in order to sustain the loss and preserve the internal surgery benefits. The steps for success include maintaining an ideal weight of below 200 pounds, not smoking, being patient with recovery, never purposefully overeating, and continuing to monitor your diet thereafter. It is daily work to manage your nutrition after gastric bypass surgery; but, many patients swear by the quality of life improvement they've experienced over the years.