Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

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.