Does surgery turn off the eat switch?
This starts my journey on trying to figure out how to get myself healthy. My family doctor has mentioned bariatric surgery, he feels I would be a good candidate. A local bariatric center had an introduction/information session that I attended and I paid close attention to the various steps a person has to take in order to be considered for surgery. One of the first steps was losing weight...well if I could do that I wouldn't be at that meeting! Another step was to meet with a nutritionist for about $700.00 that my insurance wouldn't pay and then meet with a psychologist whos bill would also come out of pocket. My deep fear is that if I started this journey, my weakness for food and eatting when I am not hungry would just make it another disappointing failure. Does the surgery "cause" a person to not want to eat?
Yes, but only for a short period right after surgery while your stomach is healing. Eventually your hunger (and when I say "hunger" I mean both physical hunger and psychological ("head") hunger) will return.
To be successful long term after any weigth loss surgery, you must address the reasons that you overeat to begin with because the surgery is only on your digestive system, not your brain... so the behavioral and emotional issues that cause the overeating will NOT magically go away. For many people, though, myself included, WLS is the only way to get a large amount of excess weight off and have a chance at living life as a relatively normal weight person.
Lora
To be successful long term after any weigth loss surgery, you must address the reasons that you overeat to begin with because the surgery is only on your digestive system, not your brain... so the behavioral and emotional issues that cause the overeating will NOT magically go away. For many people, though, myself included, WLS is the only way to get a large amount of excess weight off and have a chance at living life as a relatively normal weight person.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Yes and no.
Physically, for a short period anesthesia will make you not feel like eating. Once that wears off you have the head work to begin. You cannot have WLS and ignore the resons you overate to begin with. If you don't, you will quickly start finding the tricks around the GBS, the band or whatever method you choose.
If you don't change how you cope with stress, anxiety, depreession, etc, then you're always going to turn to food.
Physically, for a short period anesthesia will make you not feel like eating. Once that wears off you have the head work to begin. You cannot have WLS and ignore the resons you overate to begin with. If you don't, you will quickly start finding the tricks around the GBS, the band or whatever method you choose.
If you don't change how you cope with stress, anxiety, depreession, etc, then you're always going to turn to food.
RNY: 10/11/2001 PS: May 28, 2010: Circumferential body lift with gluteal augmentation and brachioplasty & thoracoplasty June 25, 2010: Bilateral breast augmentation with mastopexy and medial thigh lift
It never turned it off for me, but I expected that, and it's the main reason why I wanted a sleve instead of a pouch. I'm full so fast now, (my problem was not what I ate, but how much) and the sleeve won't stretch much, so it is not a problem. Even when things go bad, and I want to binge-eat, there is just no way I can.
HW: 115 SW:109 GW:68
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