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Weight Loss Surgery
Dieting, exercise, and medication have long been regarded as the conventional methods for achieving weight loss. These efforts are usually successful only in the short term. However, for those who are morbidly obese, the results rarely last. For many, this can translate into what’s called the “yo-yo syndrome,” where patients continually gain and lose weight with the possibility of serious psychological and health consequences.
According to the medical literature, for people entering diet, exercise, and behavioral modification programs, statistically at most they can lose up to 10% of their excess body weight. This is a varitable drop in the bucket for seriously overweight individuals. And of those people who actually lose 10% of their excess body weight, less than 5% can keep the weight off for more than 5 years.
Most people have lost weight on diet programs, but they usually gain all of the weight back and usually more.
Over the years, weight loss surgery has proven to be a successful method for the treatment of morbid obesity.
According to the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS), surgery provides the only method of SUSTAINED weight loss for those with a BMI of 35 or greater. (This is not to imply that this is the only method for weight loss, the society is stating that surgery is the only method for sustained weight loss).
