Body By Design

Weight Loss can be difficult to attain for many of us particularly through the common methods of dieting and exercise. In some cases this may not be the most appropriate action to take to lose weight safely especially for people with pre-existing medical concerns. So in the interest of providing full information I will cover some of the surgical procedures available to lose weight, firstly Lap Band Surgery.

Lap Band Surgery is an increasingly common procedure which in lamest terms uses a band around the stomach to make the patient feel full more often and reduce there desire for food. It has many advantages over other surgery procedures including:

• The tightness of the gastric-band can be adjusted.
• The gastric-band is placed using key-hole surgery which doesn’t leave large scars and minimizes post-surgery recovery time.
• Gastric-band surgery is reversible and because nothing permanent has been done to the stomach, it can return to its normal shape.

Gastric-band surgery isn’t for everyone. In fact, it is considered a solution of last resort for very overweight people whose weight is dramatically impacting their quality of life or life expectancy.

Whether or not someone is considered appropriate for gastric-band surgery depends on a number of factors which the performing surgeon will consider before proceeding with the surgery.

These conditions usually relate to how overweight a person is, what other weight loss methods they’ve tried, how badly their weight is affecting their health, their age and their understanding of the risks and post-surgery responsibilities regarding healthier eating and exercise.

When it comes to how overweight a person is, a Body Mass Index of 35 or more is considered appropriate for gastric-band surgery.

As well as being morbidly obese, surgeons generally want to know that potential patients have exhausted all other methods of losing weight.

If a potential patient already has many of the diseases caused or made worse by being overweight, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, they are far more likely to be considered appropriate candidates for surgery.

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