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Monday, August 10, 2009

Losing Weight-How Can Surgery Help You

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By Wan Mohd Hirwani Wan Hussain

If you have been watching your weight go up and you're worried about the rising pounds, you may be wondering whether weight loss surgery really works. Firstly is it possible to prevent future weight gain by putting yourself on a well-known weight loss surgical procedure? This procedure has been studied intensively and great success stories have been provided, so much so that a great deal of attention is focused on it.

The general problem with seriously obese people is that their metabolism has slowed to a crawl which means that losing calories using exercise or normal dietary plans isn't going to help them lose that excess weight fast enough. It is the advances that have been made in recent years that should ease any concerns that overweight individuals have about surgical procedures used in weight loss programs.

One of the most common reasons why individuals would like to lose that excess weight is to enhance their physical attributes. This sort of weight loss surgery is serious and to go through this kind of procedure only in an attempt to look good should not be the main reason.

Although there is nothing wrong with wanting to look attractive, actually being fit and healthy often brings attractiveness as a by-product and should not only improve the health, although also the lifestyle of the person concerned. Any person considering having this surgery should look seriously at the alternatives and the reasons behind why they want it, currently, the best way to do this is by seeking medical advice and try to contact others that have gone ahead with it.

Don't forget there is always a psychological side to everything so consultation with your psychiatrist or dietitian might enable you to put the procedure into perspective once the procedure has been completed. This procedure has been going long enough for some useful statistics to be available and for someone who has undergone weight loss surgery, and lost fifty percent of their additional body weight and been able to keep the weight of for 5 years or more, then it is considered a success.

While this is good news it is still dependent on a number of factors regarding the patient and the skills of the surgeon who will undoubtedly be a skilled pediatric physician. A figure of anywhere between 30 and 50 percent of their extra weight in the first six months after the procedure and with some luck this could increase to around 77 percent within a year.

Best of all, people who were able to loss weight through surgical operations can actually maintain a continuous weight loss of up to fifty to sixty percent in the next 10 to 14 years after surgery. Patients have much to think about before they decide on this course of action and it isn't something that should be rushed.

As with any major operation, many things will determine the outcome including the patient's weight, general health, age, the procedure itself and very importantly their will power. A change in how you live your life is the deciding factor in this instance as the determination required to not just change your lifestyle, however to maintain it will require a strength of will that probably has not been seen up to that point.

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