when the rest of us just have to go on a diet? What criteria do they measure it on... surely they should just be put on healthy eating plans?! this isnt a criticism, just wondered how they can say they "tried every diet and it didnt work" - surely they work if you stick to them?
2007-01-09 19:46:01 · 7 answers · asked by monkeynuts 5 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
I have known four people who had gastric bypass. One was 5'2" and 225, the other three were in excess of 300 pounds. All were female.
If a person who eats normal sized meals restricts their intake of food, they're going to feel hungry for a while until their stomach shrinks down. If a person who eats HUGE amounts of food (and every one of those girls could put away a darn cow at one sitting), their stomachs are massive. When they start eating normal portions, it's not like you or me cutting back a little. They literally feel as if they are starving. I know a lot of skinny people will scoff at that because how could a 300 pounder starve, but to them, it FEELS as if they are, and you know how it is when you're at work and your stomach is raising cain. You can't concentrate. Will power is crap. When you feel like your stomach is going to eat itself, you're gonna crack and eat something. Then, because they're already feeling like failures for being so fat, they tend to go into an emotional binge (and I know plenty of skinnies who do the same thing) and next thing you know, BOOM diet blown.
The second thing is that people who are that big have a hard time just walking to the mail box. Imagine getting out of your chair and going for a walk around the block while carrying a 150 pound person on your shoulder. Now do that all day. People who are that obese simply cannot handle 30 minutes on the stairmaster without their knees and ankles swelling up like footballs and their heart rate going through the roof. Raising their arm up over their head would be like us doing it with a 10-20 pound weight. So, getting them to stick to a serious exercise program is very difficult.
Gastric bypass is NOT an easy way out. It means never eating more than a few ounces of food at a time, and choosing sugary crap means their system will take a dump on them... and it's pretty painful I'm told. What it does, is allow them to begin to eat normal amounts of food and not feel hungry. As the weight comes off (and it usually comes off fast), they can become more active and focus on an exercise program and a proper diet, without feeling exhausted and starved.
2007-01-09 20:01:58 · answer #1 · answered by Jadalina 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm thinking about having gastric bypass surgery myself.My reasons for doing it is because I am disabled & diet alone is not going to help me. I have extremely high cholesteral & am diabetic.
Before I became disabled I was overweight and was excercising & dieting & the weight was coming off for a while.Then it stopped even though I was excercising even more & eating less.Since I've been disabled not only have I stopped losing weight I have started gaining it back because I can't excercise.
A couple of the criterias are that you must be what the US standards are for being 100 or more lbs overweight & or have a condition such as diabetes.According to the information I have read about this subject it's a very good bet that once the weight begins falling off your cholesterol & other medical conditions get much better. Also it still requires a lot of commitment from the patient.You have a very strict diet to follow afterwards & can only eat certain fofoods. You can google gastric bypass to find more info.
2007-01-10 04:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by lookin4answers 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People who have this done are morbidly obese meaning their weight is killing them. They can't exercise because that usually triggers their health problems like high blood pressure. They need a quick fix before their health gets worse. Yeah most of the people who do this could diet and lose weight but their lifestyle is already so far from healthy they need surgical help to lose the weight.
2007-01-10 03:55:01 · answer #3 · answered by ginger 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
obese people do this procedure because their weight is very unhealthy, dangerous and risky. since they may have heart problems and breathing trouble exercise is put off until they loose weight from dieting or bypasses. its not really about lazyness or anything. it is actually not recommended by doctors if the person is not really obese and if exercising can still be done.
2007-01-10 03:56:57 · answer #4 · answered by painintheneck 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why bypass surgeries are done?
because arteries are so clogged up that blood doesnt pass through so they gotta bypass it through a peice of unclogged artery to reach its destination
2007-01-10 03:50:34 · answer #5 · answered by RaveN the knife freak 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think it's because they want to try everything and everything includes those options.
2007-01-10 03:49:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are lazy!
2007-01-10 03:52:02 · answer #7 · answered by LSD 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋