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Avoid these types of things! Find another way...I've known two people to die from GBS and another to have serious complications from the lap-band(now doesn't have a stomach). Evaluate your diet,exercise and life style choices. you'd be surprised how much you can change without those types of procedures. Best of luck.
 
try exercising first before you do this....it's still pretty dangerous
 
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There are much safer, and in many ways better methods to loosing weight. I feel the dangers of this type of device outweigh the potential benefits.
 
I presume you have tried to lose weight by diet and exercise and that has not worked? A device like this will only be approved by a doctor IF you have been unable to lose the weight by other methods. Weight loss is not a fast thing. It takes a long time to put it on, and it takes a long time to take it off. Any quick fix gimmicks are just that, gimmicks. My suggestions are to eliminate junk food completely from your diet. Eat balanced meals and no snacking. When you eat a meal, take a bite, chew slowly, after swallowing that bite put the fork down for 30 seconds before taking another bite. Trust me on this, you will eat less. Drink plenty of water during the day. If you feel hungry, drink a glass of water instead. Combine this with moderate exercise and you should see a gradual reduction in weight and fat. If you do any strength training, you may not see much weight loss as muscle weighs more than fat and as you drop fat and build muscle your weight won't change a lot. Surgery is always a last resort and only, ONLY if you have serious health risks from the excess weight.
 
Yeah, EXERCISE, eat healthy, and you should lose weight. No one is incapable of losing weight if they reduce their caloric intake to a reasonable level and increase their calorie burn except in rare cases of thyroid disorder or something. I'm at 270 and 6'2" with 34% body fat. I decided I was tired of it and have started doing P90X. It's intense, but the key is to work at a level you can handle. It should be a little above what you're "comfortable" with, but not to the point of hurting yourself.

Eat snacks high in fiber. Fiber sits in your stomach longer and keeps you full longer. Drink more water, fool your stomach into thinking it's full. Eat slowly and take smaller portions. Most people eat too fast, and have eaten more than necessary by the time their stomach communicates an "I'm full" message to the brain to stop shoveling.
 
My wife had the gastric bypass, prior to the lap band. She lost 135 lbs. It is not an easy out. The recovery and lifestyle changes are MAJOR. She says she would do it all over again.

I am looking at having a variation of it to combat my diabetes.
 
FWIW: My friend got GBS last year and she's doing and looking great. My aunt also had it done several years ago and same deal. Diet and exercise habits MUST change, though. That's what I've been told by both of them.
 
HOw heavy are you to begin with XJ=Fun? I have been nearly 420lbs and have dropped to the 380's since October with just increased exercise and smarter eating habits. Mom has a Doctor that was trying to get her to do one of these procedures and she's been refusing so far, but has somehow managed to drop 10lbs or so in the last month with little exercise...don't ask me how, but she has!
 
First off dont listen to the people that know anything about it! Lap band and GP are very different. Lap band is a very safe and effective way to loose weight. People that are not overweight (very overweight) have NO idea how hard loosing the weigh really is and keeping it off. All forms of weight loss surgery have proven to lower the death rate involving Diabetes, cancer, coronary artery disease, ect.

All I can say is take time and research it! most hospitals have free classes you can go to. Unlike some peoples thought above this is very SAFE with a very low death rate and for the most part will make your life much better and longer VS being overweight.
 
r33pwrd said:
not true at all...
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Exercise and eating less
Pros: Weight loss, cheap

Cons: It sucks to do


Lap-band:
Pros: Virtually effortless weight loss

Cons: Expensive, potentially life threatening surgery.

I would only do it if your weight was contributing to a dire health risk AND you cannot for one reason or another loose weight.
 
CherBear said:
Exercise and eating less
Pros: Weight loss, cheap

Cons: It sucks to do


Lap-band:
Pros: Virtually effortless weight loss

Cons: Expensive, potentially life threatening surgery.

I would only do it if your weight was contributing to a dire health risk AND you cannot for one reason or another loose weight.
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You obviously know very little about lap band surgery. show me more than a few people that have lost 100 lbs natually and kept it off... facts show that people that loose weight naturally gain all the weight back 90% percent of the time. And again it is not dangerous compaired to the affects of being over weight (not talking about someone 50 lbs overweight)

I do agree if you can loose the weight and keep it off natually this is the ideal way to do it but facts show this is not common at all.
 
my step sister got the lap band at almost 500 lbs and after a year she was down to 415 after 2.5 years she is now at 280 and is now healthier and will soon be able to have children. it took alot of effort and control on her impulse eating but she is getting the hang of it. i imagine thanksgiving and christmas were rough though. cant really eat much in one sitting but you dont really need much.
 
r33pwrd:The only reason people gain the weight back is because they go back to their old ways after losing the weight. It'd be the same for lap band I bet. Take off the lap band and watch the weight come back.

And ANY surgery is potentially deadly. If it involves anesthesia, you run the risk of having an adverse reaction to it. If it involves the doctor cutting you open and clipping a band around your stomach, you run the risk of the doctor accidentally cutting something that shouldn't be cut.

EDIT: fscrig, P90X is pretty good. We aren't going by their schedule, mainly because we haven't bought anything extra yet. I have a set of adjustable weight dumbbells at home but we don't have any of the bands or any of that. Even just doing the stuff that doesn't require the extra stuff though is giving us a really good work out. I'm hoping to get down to about 220ish and drop body fat below 20% as my final goal. Whether that's after one cycle or takes longer. I've got two daughters, so I need to bulk up before they hit datin age. :D
 
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Lifestyle change is the only one that will provide lasting results, my daughter has lost over 80 lbs and is keeping it off but it involved her living with a digital scale to weigh her food. It worked and it worked very well. There are no magic solutions.
 
If you don't know the difference between lose and loose, then your fat dumb ass should be automatically dropped from any surgeon's list of potential patients.

:dunce:
 
Darky said:
r33pwrd:The only reason people gain the weight back is because they go back to their old ways after losing the weight. It'd be the same for lap band I bet. Take off the lap band and watch the weight come back.

And ANY surgery is potentially deadly. If it involves anesthesia, you run the risk of having an adverse reaction to it. If it involves the doctor cutting you open and clipping a band around your stomach, you run the risk of the doctor accidentally cutting something that shouldn't be cut.
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OK less than .5 percent of people that undergow lapband surgery will die from it and yes if you remove the band you probably gain the weight back... the idea with the band is you will have it forever (an if you did not know the band is adjustable so if and when your stomach stretches you can "make it small again"! Like I said before in a perfect world you would loose weight naturally but that has been proven that this is not usually a long term fix. Im not one to jump into a surgery by any means but when you look at all the side affects and risks of being 300lbs plus the .5 percent death rate is not that bad :)
 
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