Ongoing Commitment to a Healthy Lifestyle and Changes in Diet are Absolutes for Weight Loss Surgery


Bariatric surgery heals damaged heart muscles, reverting the heart to its normal size and function and improving overall health
The main reason patients choose weight-loss surgery should not only be to lose weight. While patients do lose between 60 and 80 percent of their excess body weight, the real reason patients should choose bariatric surgery is to get healthy. Bariatric surgery can foster healthy lives by helping with the following:
●        Improving cardiovascular health
●        Providing long-term remission for those who suffer type 2 diabetes
●        Relieving depression
●        Eliminating obstructive sleep apnea
●        Relieving joint pain
●        Improving fertility and pregnancy complications
●        Alleviating metabolic syndrome
●        Preventing gallbladder disease, as well as others.

To improve one’s life dramatically after weight loss surgery, a patient needs to commit to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. This means a new way of living and a new way of eating. After surgery, a patient:
●        Will not have much of an appetite for about two years and will be “full” after eating much less food
●        Must abide by specific diet guidelines
●        Must supplement one’s diet with vitamins, minerals, and protein because the body is taking in less of these nutrients than before through the main diet and the body may not be able to absorb the nutrients in the same way that it once did
●        Must be monitored with regular, routine blood tests for the rest of one’s life.

To be a candidate for bariatric surgery:
●        One must weigh 100 pounds over one’s ideal weight
●        One’s BMI (body mass index, weight to height ratio) must be over 40 or over 35 with health issues directly related to obesity
●        One must have been unable to lose and maintain the loss of excess weight through more conventional methods

In essence, if a patient knows he or she can commit to making permanent, healthy lifestyle changes after a weight loss surgery which reduces the size of the stomach, then bariatric surgery is a good choice for that patient.

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