Gastric Band Operation - HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!

Gastric Band Operation.

Lets talk about one of the popular quick weight loss products that everyone is talking about.

What is a Gastric Band Operation?

A laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, commonly referred to as a lap band, is an inflatable silicone device that is placed around the top portion of the stomach, via laparoscopic surgery, in order to treat obesity. Adjustable gastric band surgery is an example of bariatric surgery designed for obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or greater—or between 35–40 in cases of patients with certain comorbidities that are known to improve with weight loss, such as sleep apnea, diabetes, osteoarthritis, GERD, Hypertension (high blood pressure), or metabolic syndrome, among others.

This is NOT what you need. Believe me. Once you have this operation you can only eat small portions of food and the side effects are awful. For the rest of your life you have to take pills because your body will not get sufficient nutrients to sustain itself because of what you are eating and the amounts you will be eating.

Potential complications

A commonly reported occurrence for banded patients is regurgitation of non-acidic swallowed food from the upper pouch, commonly known as Productive Burping (PBing). Productive Burping is not to be considered normal. The patient should consider eating less, eating more slowly and chewing their food more thoroughly. Occasionally, the narrow passage into the larger, lower part of the stomach might also become blocked by a large portion of unchewed or unsuitable food
Other complications include:

• Ulceration
• Gastritis (irritated stomach tissue)
• Erosion -The band may slowly migrate through the stomach wall. This will result in the band moving from the outside of the stomach to the inside. This may occur silently but can cause severe problems. Urgent treatment may be required if there is any internal leak of gastric contents or bleeding.
• Slippage - An unusual occurrence in which the lower part of the stomach may prolapse through the band causing an enlarged upper pouch. In severe instances this can cause an obstruction and require an urgent operation to fix.
• Malposition of the band - This can cause a kink in the stomach, or (rarely) the band may not encircle the stomach at all, giving no restriction to the passage of food.
• Band was not placed on the stomach - (very rare - especially with an experienced bariatric surgeon.) However, in two asymptomatic patients, the band had not enclosed the stomach but only perigastric fat
• Problems with the port and/or the tube connecting port and band - The port can "flip over" so that the membrane can no longer be accessed with a needle from the outside (this often goes hand in hand with a tube kink, and may require repositioning as a minor surgical procedure under local anaesthesia); the port may get disconnected from the tube or the tube may be perforated in the course of a port access attempt (both would result in loss of fill fluid and restriction, and likewise require a minor operation).
• Internal bleeding
• Infection

Here is how you can best the gastric band operation.

You can take in liquids that are high in sugar content and still NOT lose weight. Plenty of peole have had the operation and have lost weight. Great. The problem is the side effects outweigh the benefits ten fold.

Problems with the Gastric Band?

Band- and port-specific

• Band slippage/pouch dilation
• Esophageal dilatation/dysmotility
• Erosion of the band into the gastric lumen
• Mechanical malfunctions - port leakage, cracking of the kink-resistant tubing or disruption of the tubing connection from the port to the band
• Port site pain
• Port displacement
• Infection of the fluid within the band
• Bulging of the port through the skin

You are talking about clamping your stomach off from your mouth. BUT you still have to intake certain amounts of calories and your eating habits are not changed they are destroyed!!!!!

You can no longer eat like a normal person. EVER!!!!! You have to eat miniscule portions of food so you don’t throw up.

Plenty of people have had the Gastric Band fitted lose weight have the Gastric band loosened and put all the weight back on.

I personally know of one webmaster in the UK who lost 140lbs using the Gastric Band. Once he had it loosened he put all the weight back on again.

There is NO quick fix to losing weight. NO QUICK FIX!!!!!!!!!! NO MAGIC POTIONS OR PILLS!!!

Follow on with me and let’s change our eating habits. Lets change our lifestyle. Let’s eat more healthy. Let’s cut sugar from our diets. Let’s not eat bread.

Here is another tool to add to your tool box on losing weight.

Do I need to eat this?

That’s the tool right there. Every time you go to put something in your mouth ask your self that question. EVERY TIME!!!!!

You need to ask yourself that question every time you think of eating something. For breakfast today I had a bowl of cereal, Special K to be precise and for a mid morning snack I had 100g of salted peanuts. NO bread NO sugar. This is my mantra even though I saw a special offer at Mcdonalds that was almost too good too miss. But I swerved it and took the high road by asking myself the question, at 1030am do I need to eat a cheeseburger? Hell NO!!!!! But I said to myself we will get some peanuts to munch on in the office.