When we talk about weight loss surgery’s first, we need to understand what they do for an individual. What they do is create an artificial caloric deficit for people by restricting how much people can eat. Whether it is bypass or a band it makes eating a surplus of calories very difficult. When you sign up for the process, they ask you to first lose weight. When someone signs up for a surgery, they will get a trainer, nutritionist, and all the help they need. But with all these advantages why do 50 percent or more patients gain the weight back? I have personally known multiple people who have had the surgery and see varying results. Let’s go through what researchers have found out. One thing we know is that people will typically be able to lose weight the first 18-24 months. Second, 50% or more patients gain their weight back or surpass what they weighed before. If any prescription drug had a 50% rate or more “fail rate” they would never pass testing, yet we see weigh loss surgery numbers continue to go up. The third thing we know is that we need more long-term study and actual effects on health.
Why do Majority of these surgeries fail? Its because at the end of the day weight loss is a lifestyle change. When you are getting that only the first 18 to 24 months you will lose weight the surgery does its job but what happens after that. You can think even about biggest loser where they have coaches for full time and lose an extreme amount of weight. Here comes the bad news a majority in a short period time gain their weight back. Here are some reasons why, when you lose weight fast without eliciting a response to maintain muscle the body decides to pare down muscle. Rapid weight loss leads to a lower metabolism adaptation as well, when you lower your body weight the body doesn’t need to burn as many calories to move from point A to point B. Over time your body adapted from being able to eat 3000 calories to maybe 1200 to maintain body weight. That means any time you eat over 1200 calories, which is easy during this time because the abundance of food, you will slowly gain weight back with maybe even a slower metabolism.
My first recommendation is to understand weight loss is a journey. It’s going to take time and you will have ups and down. You didn’t gain the weight quickly, it took time. If you decide to do the surgery, make sure you have a plan to keep as much muscle as you can to help aid keeping metabolism up. Muscle gain means you have to eat more to maintain weight. The more you’re able to eat to maintain your weight the easier weight loss will be long term. For more information check out other blogs.
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