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If you have had weight loss surgery, can you join a slimming club?
My Mum had weight loss surgery - her stomach stapled. And she is not doing very well atall. She had the surgery in may last year and has only lost a stone. She should have lost alot more then that as she is quiet a big lady - but not huge. I am worried that theonly option for her to slim down has failed, and yes it is her fault because she still eats sh!t and cant stop herself. She had the surgery in Belgium as she could not afford it over here £4,500 over there and £8,000 here! She is only meant to be able to eat a tiny bit of food every so many hours- but she manages to eat much more then that but she is most of the time sick! I think the biggest reason is because her body has had the change but her mind has not (over here you get counciling etc)whereas is Belgium its just the op nothing else. She is thinking of joining a slimming club (which she did before the op unsuccesfully). I think she needs some sort of counciling to help her mind go off bad foods, What do you guys think? Than
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- you wouldnt need too. cuz from the surgery you are resricted from teh amount of food intake anyway.
- your stomach is elastic. if you have the gastric by pass surgery but still eat more than you should eventually your stomach will expand back to almost normal size. so joining a weight watchers kind of club would not be a bad idea as well. it will help her create a new lifestyle to help her keep the weight off long term
- go link http://www.weightlosssurgeryinfo.com/dtcf/pages/LifeAfterSurgery.htm
- She could die through eating too much after stomach stapling,quite a lot of people have. Her stomach has been made tiny,and it can burst.
- Get her into some form of exercise, slimming clubs can show her what to eat but if she backs this up with exercising such as riding a bike will do her a lot of good (seriously just once every week or so for an hour maybe & she'll feel the benefits-I did) my only worry is that most people can't be bothered with exercising but it's kept me fit & I eat pretty much what I like Also try sports maybe just play tennis or something with her every now & again the only way she'll loose weight though is if she is willing to co-operate so you'll have to get her to else it's no good she just wont loose anything
- your mums problem doesn't have anything to do with the size of her stomach- the surgery made it smaller, yes, but she still has to deal with the issues that got her overweight to begin with. This is why many people are not in favor of weight loss surgery. Overweight people think the fat on their bodies is the only problem and if they could just get the surgery, everything else would fall into place. Its not so-its emotional and a mind set- no amount of stapling and cutting is going to change that- it takes intensive counseling and a desire to change the behavior.
- Anne Diamond had surgery and when it didn't work found out they had done it wrong. She had to have it redone. This might be what happened with your Mum. She might be better off joining Weightwatchers. I lost 3 stone in 7 months.
- Wow !! that was hard. I had my weight loss from 72 kg to 67 kg in 2 weeks and still decreasing (in my country we use kg not pounds). in my country there is a akupuntur (i dont know the translation for english). I got my big no no eating list and i like to share... no bananas, avocado, mangoes, durians, all milk product (exp. plain yoghurt), no salmon, no beef, no duck. Its ok to eat chicken only breast but without skin and no for all kind of fried food also no soda. eat more vegies and more mineral water. I do eat only apple for 3 days and only drink water (i lost 1,5 in 3 days) so i eat apples if i feel hungry it sent all the fat out. the daily meal is.. breakfast no bread only apple or apple juice, for lunch a piece of chicken breast and vegies, dinner is not up from 7 pm and only pasta (aglio olio is best) or vegies. drink less sugar.. eat apple for snack too not springles, chocolate (if u choco addict u can eat dark chocolate),etc. Hope its help .my mom best friend do the same and she lost 40 kg from 95 kg.
