I’ve never quite understood why if you go ahead with surgery, often jumping all the hoops in order to qualify and then have it done, you would skip those very special appointments for after-care post-surgery. Yet I am told this happens more often than you would believe or predict. If you’re pre-op and thinking it[Read More]
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Before Bypass – What I Wish I Had Known
This coming month I shall be 7 years post-op and when I go along to support groups or just chat to other WLS patients generally they often ask what my experience has been like. I always give frank answers and ensure everyone is aware that it isn’t a walk in the park! I[Read More]
Top five ways to fight obesity
If you’re a new visitor the website and are researching the ways to combat your obesity then the guest feature below will help. It explores the ways that we can consider to reduce our weight on a practical everyday level and has some good ideas to put into practice whilst pre-op. If many of these[Read More]
Will I lose as much weight with a gastric sleeve as a gastric bypass?
Many patients today are offered the bypass or sleeve as a WLS op and we have covered the differences between them before (see here). Part of the consideration for patients is undoubtedly weight loss – will the sleeve offer comparable results as the bypass? We asked our friends at Ramsay Health the same question. Here’s what they[Read More]
Help! My Family Is Against My Weight Loss Surgery
Looking into weight loss surgery and deciding to get it is exciting. You are probably happy about the prospect of getting your weight under control for the first time in years, if not ever, and you are probably eager to make progress your journey. Unfortunately, you may find that some of your family members[Read More]