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Originally Posted by Lenny2
You are very ignorant when it comes to this subject.
My guess is you're either one of those people who has never had a weight problem, or you did have a weight problem and now you have the zeal of a born again christian when it comes to telling everyone else what they should and shouldn't eat.
The point of the surgery isn't just to make your stomach smaller so that you eat less. You "can" still cheat if you have a lapband or a gastric bypass, you could consume thousands of calories per day of liquid and gain weight, it has happened.
The reason the surgery is successful for people who follow the program is that the nerve endings in your stomach that tell your brain that you're full are in the top of your stomach.
When you have the lapband or a gastric bypass those nerve endings get stimulated by just a few ounces of food. (the part of your stomach that is bypassed is the bottom) This way the person still gets the "OMG I'm sooooo stuffed" feeling, while only eating 1000 calories or so per day.
If you were to restrict your calories to that low a level without this "help" you'd have headaches, fatigue, dizzyness, etc etc and you wouldn't be able to lead a productive life. However since your brain thinks that you're stuffed, it doesn't send off those distress signals to your body that it would if it thought you were starving, so you're able to lead a productive life while eating very few calories.
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Sorry, the only ignorance on this subject is on your part. An adult male or female who eats only 1000 calories in a day is not eating properly or in a healthy manner unless they are well under 100 lbs. Trying to get the "oh my god I am so stuffed" feeling on a daily basis is exactly what led to their obesity problem in the first place. Trying to cut up your insides, and deform your internal organs with the intention of tricking your body to make this feeling happen with an abnormally low amount of food is a bad idea on it's face.
There is no one who gets these barbaric operations who ends up looking or feeling good afterwards, assuming that they even survive the shock and trauma to their bodies in the aftermath of the procedure in the first place. They are just going to end up shrunken and weak until they eat or drink their way back up to their original weight, but now with damage to their internal organs to boot.
If instead they had eaten five or so healthy meals through out the day and exercised daily- which the doctors who pick your pockets with this procedure recommend that you do anyway- then a person could eat enough to be full (but not stuffed to the gills) and actually feel good and have energy without the expense and risk of these ridiculous surgeries. There is just no defense for these procedures, period.