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I’m getting gastric band done on March 30, i’m 250 pounds.
I’ve talked to my doctor and everything, and understand everything, but i’d like to know tips and advice, such as what foods to eat and what not.
My doctor told me the biggest thing to avoid is carbohydrates.
Is there anything that I need to be told.
I’m in middle school, and by March 30 when i’m getting my surgery done,
I would like to have lost a minimum of 100 pounds. By August 4, because that’s when school starts, and I would like to look at least decent when I go to High school.
So any tips/advice would be much appreciated:D.

I think the best alternative for me is lap band surgery. I have tried diets and am apprehensive about getting gastric by pass surgery because it is irreversable.

I am hemophiac . 25 years old . i want to go for weight loss surgery . is it possible . because i have Hemophilia . Please answer me .

Hi i have on gone some surgery to help me lose weight i had what is called a (gastric band) i used to weigh 25st, and i am currently looseing weight and now at 22 stone and what was crossing my mind was that when i lose more weight or all i need to be a healthy weight will i have excess skin, im only 16 years old and at a height of 6 foot 7 so i was just wondering will it happen will it not. any answers would be of much use thanks

.but they clearly can.

Also for a fat person to have a gastric band costs the government about £12,000 per person per year. Adding that to the excess surgery fat people have because of their weight costs society HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS per year.

All fat people do really is improve the finances of Sainsburys

Please share your thoughts, whatever they are.

Was just reading an article that said that the top surgeries performed in the USA this past year were these two.
Do we really, as a society, need this.
Do you think it works.
Do you think it’s safe.
Do you think insurance companies should pay for this, or the individual.
Do you think perhaps that people view this as the easy way out.
Is this surgery “fix” becoming so much the extended weight loss thing. Eat all you want, get really overweight and then take the magic “fix” method. Make it all go away in one magic day or two of surgery.
I knew a woman that died from complications of gastric bypass. It’s serious stuff. Yet, the people I know who have had this seem to treat it so casually. Yes, they have lost weight and they seem happy, but. It’s so common now.
What happened to watching what you eat and exercise. If these surgeries are more common now than any other performed, what has happened to our society.

Yet, I have a cousin who is vastly overweight and she doesn’t seem to care. Her entire life revolves around eating. I wonder if she has a mental disorder where the trigger to stop eating just isn’t operational in her brain. Would this kind of surgery truly help a person who can’t control their mind.
I watch and I learn. I am not trying to judge people here. Just wondering what people think and due to the anonymous nature of Y.A., I can get a taste (no pun intended) of what y’all have thought about.

What do you know about those who have had this done. Good. Bad. Changes. Did you view them as taking the lazy or easy way out. Did you view them as taking a last ditch effort and if they did not, their obesity would ultimately kill them. I take it there are some cases like this, but I wonder if there are more who are using this as they have lost self control.

I am thinking about getting one of these I have done research into both of them I have been trying to fall pregnant past 14 months so this month have not fell pregnant yet again going back on the pill to get my periods regular and my doctor thinks it would be a good time to go head with the surgery.
What one has better MAJOR weight loss results.

By putting a band around the stomach so it can’t expand
Or cutting off a piece of the Stomach so it can hold less
Or Gastric bypass Surgery That makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine.

I have a friend who weighs less than 250 pounds and is about 5′5. She claims she is having hernia repair surgery and has to be on a liquid diet for 6 weeks before surgery and then 3 months after surgery. I have never heard of anything like this. Sounds to me like gastric bypass or lap band.

What surgery is going to require this type of diet.

I’m 21 years old 5′3 and 280lbs. I’ve been this way all my life and finally want to make a change. I was originally planning on getting the lap-band procedure done because it is generally safer ( I’ve heard ) but now I have my 1st apt Tue and I’m not sure what I’m going to tell the doctor. I know someone who had lap-band and only lost 60lbs in 1 year. If i’m going to do this I’m going to do this all the way. I don’t want to lose 80lbs I want to lose 160lbs. Should I have gastric instead. Either way I think I’ll need to have plastic surgery to remove the excess skin. Does anyone have an suggestions. I’m torn :/