Gastric Sleeve Surgery for Patients with Low Initial BMI (BMI 30-34.9)
Post updated February 2021. Recently, I updated my post Weight Loss Surgery for Low BMI Patients (BMI 30-34.9) based on updated guidelines from several leading organizations. These guidelines answer the question, “Is weight loss surgery an appropriate treatment for people with mild obesity (BMI less than 35)?” When I first wrote that post in 2012, the answer…
Is Weight Loss Surgery Right for Low BMI Patients (BMI 30-35)?
Post updated January 2021. Why are we still telling people that they must be at least 75-100 pounds overweight before they can have bariatric surgery—the most effective way to lose weight? Other methods for losing weight—diet and exercise—are largely not effective long term. Diet and exercise programs fail for 95-98% of people within 3 years.1,2…
Body Weight Set-Point Prevents Weight Loss
Losing weight is possible over the short term, but weight regain is almost a certainty over the long term. The statistics tell us that people can generally lose about 10% of their weight with a concerted effort. The bad news is that almost everybody will quickly regain all their lost weight and often more. Why is this? Eating…
Why Gastric Sleeve is the Favorite Weight Loss Operation
Post updated November 2020. In 2010 <10% of weight loss operations were sleeve gastrectomy operations. In just three short years, the sleeve went from a distant third place in popularity, significantly behind both the gastric bypass and LAP-BAND®, to first place. It has remained in first place ever since.
Weight Loss Surgery Lowers The Body Weight Set Point
Blog post updated November 2020. Weight loss surgery is by far the most effective method for losing weight and keeping it off. In a blog post entitled The Body Weight Set Point Prevents Weight Loss, I discuss why non-surgical methods for weight loss almost never work – they don’t change the set point. In this…
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Lucia’s Gastric Bypass Testimonial – 11 Years after Surgery
Wow! Looking at the before picture below, I hardly recognize myself – LOL! Since my surgery my whole life has changed physically and especially, emotionally. If I hadn’t had to go to work every day, I would have hidden myself away back then. I dreaded meeting new people and I especially dreaded meeting friends and family…
My Favorite Gastric Sleeve Photo – Jordan
Over my career as a weight loss surgeon I have seen lots of great before and after photos. Recently a patient of mine showed me a gastric sleeve photo of herself before and after surgery that I thought was one of the best patient before/after photos I had ever seen, but not for the typical…
The Rise of the Gastric Sleeve
The gastric sleeve operation has gone from <10% of weight loss operations performed in the U.S. to the majority of operations performed in just 3-4 years. The rapidity of this increase in gastric sleeve popularity is extraordinary. Let’s look at the data. There are three graphs below from three different sources that demonstrate the rise of…
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