Monday, August 10, 2009

Reduce Weight-Manage Your Weight Using Surgery

By Wan Mohd Hirwani Wan Hussain

If reducing your weight is something you want to achieve and have thought about weight loss surgery then you need to consider the information in this article. Can you actually stop weight gain permanently by using weight loss surgery? Around the world the attention is on weight loss surgery as an effective long term method of weight loss owing to the large amount of time studying weight problems and techniques that have become available.

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.

Naturally a regular reason given for losing weight is to make yourself look more attractive. For seriously overweight people this should really be a secondary reason even though the desire to look good isn't a bad one, however weight loss surgery is considered a major procedure.

Although it may be considered by quite a few as a purely image procedure, weight loss surgery is performed for medical reasons that should enable the patient to survive a potential reduced lifespan. 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.

Even though 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 doctor. A successful procedure will see the patient lose anywhere from thirty percent to fifty percent in the first six months which could rise to 77 percent within the year.

It has also now been shown that if weight loss surgery patients have been successful and lost between fifty to sixty percent of their weight they will be able maintain this for up to fourteen years. As with the other weight loss management programs, there are many factors to consider before the patient should decide to undergo weight loss surgery.

As with any major operation, quite a few things will determine the outcome including the patient's weight, general health, age, the procedure itself and very importantly their will power. The real answer to this situation is whether the individual is capable of accepting that a huge lifestyle change is needed if they want to keep their weight off.

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