Gastric Bypass Quotes

One in four gastric bypass surgery recipients develops a new problem with alcohol addiction.

Gallstones are also common among obese patients who lose weight rapidly after gastric bypass surgery. (In gastric bypass surgery, the size of the stomach is reduced, preventing the person from overeating.) One study found that more than one-third (38 percent) of patients who had gastric bypass surgery developed gallstones within three months after the surgery.

(those alien creatures in the film business who held American women’s self-esteem in their grubby little hands) considered anything above a size 4 an emergency candidate for gastric bypass.

We were told to cut fat, increase “complex carbs,” and all would be well. That is true if you are in the business of coronary artery bypass, statins, diabetes meds, or gastric bypass.

Long-term weight loss is much more mental than physical. Most of it starts and stops with what is happening inside our minds.

For some individuals, weight struggles and health issues persist despite their best efforts--no matter how diligently they adhere to dietary guidelines, engage in physical activity, or follow medical advice, controlling their weight remains a constant battle.

Be bold and stand out! You will be surprised how your healthy changes inspire others to do the same.

Don't forget about the NSVs (non-scale victories)!

Drop a bombshell on the negative thoughts and judgments--blow them up, and do what you know is right for you.

The story we tell ourselves becomes reality because it's what we focus on. Thoughts become things because they are what we base our decisions on.

My message is that you deserve to live your best life with vitality--and without judgment based on your appearance or decisions about your health.

When you’re not starving, when you have glucose, you can prepare for the battle of the bulge with some of the classic self-control strategies, starting with precommitment. The ultimate surefire form of precommitment—the true equivalent of Odysseus tying himself to the mast—would be gastric bypass surgery, which would physically prevent you from eating, but there are lots of more modest forms. You can begin by simply keeping fattening food out of reach and out of sight. You’ll conserve willpower (as the women in the experiment did when the M&M’s were moved out of reach) at the same time that you’re avoiding calories. In one experiment, office workers ate a third less candy when it was kept inside a drawer rather than on top of their desks. A simple commitment strategy for avoiding late-night snacking is to brush your teeth early in the evening, while you’re still full from dinner and before the late-night-snacking temptation sets in. Although it won’t physically prevent you from eating, brushing your teeth is such an ingrained pre-bedtime habit that it unconsciously cues you not to eat anymore. On a conscious level, moreover, it makes snacking seem less attractive: You have to balance your greedy impulse for sugar against your lazy impulse to avoid having to brush your teeth again.

Yeah, I’m fine. I just don’t like photos. I’m not exactly photogenic.” Amy shrugs. “So? None of us are, not really. I take photos to remember things. Don’t you want to be able to look back years from now and see how things were?” It’s my time to shrug, as if that’s enough to explain that no, I don’t want to look back and see just how fat and pathetic I really am. If anything, I want to forget it—no photographic evidence means it didn’t really happen, and once I figure out how to con a doctor into giving me a gastric bypass, I can pretend most of Beth: The Fat Years never happened.

Wow, you look fantastic!” She stopped me in the hallway. “Did you get gastric bypass surgery?” “No, I lost weight naturally.” “Really? I only ask because of your skin.” She pointed to the excess skin under my arm. “Doesn’t skin retract if you lose weight naturally?” I thought of a million comebacks later that night, the “wit of the staircase” as the French call it. Like, Doesn’t it strike you as odd that your best feature is pointing out the worst in others? Or, Amber, go fuck yourself. But in the moment all I could think to say was, “It depends on how fast you lose it.

Her blond hair was up in curlers, and her blue eyes were beady between layers of lard. Other than the pointy ears, there was not much magical here. She was a definite candidate for gastric bypass surgery. "Presenting Queen Ilrondelia. Ruler of the Elves of the Enchanted Forest. Mistress of all she sur-vaaays. Y'all have a good un." He popped a Budweiser and went back into the trailer to watch wrestling.

What happens to a man who loses more than half of himself? Ron Lester has searched for the answer since December 2000, when he underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery with a duodenal switch.1 Since he realized in the third grade that his massive girth could draw laughs, Lester knew his fate was as the funny fat guy. When he moved to Hollywood — a town where funny fat guys can become millionaires — he was an overnight success. There was one problem, though: His moneymaker was slowly killing him. With a family history of heart problems, the 500-pound Lester wasn’t long for this world. Surgery saved his life. It also ended his career. A shrinking man with loose skin greeted casting directors expecting the funny fat guy, and Lester struggled to score roles post-op. Now living in Dallas nearly 15 years after his glory days, he is left to ponder whether choosing life was the right decision. “Am I alive? Yes. Am I happy? No. Did I throw away my career to be skinny? Yes,” he says. “I wouldn’t do [the surgery] again. I would much rather have died happy, rich, and kept my status and gone out on top.

GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY COMPLICATIONS: 14-YEAR FOLLOW-UP11 Vitamin B12 deficiency 239 39.9 percent Readmit for various reasons 229 38.2 percent Incisional hernia 143 23.9 percent Depression 142 23.7 percent Staple line failure   90 15.0 percent Gastritis   79 13.2 percent Cholecystitis   68 11.4 percent Anastomotic problems   59 9.8 percent Dehydration, malnutrition   35 5.8 percent Dilated pouch   19 3.2 percent