A Bariatric Surgery Support Group is There Every Step of the Way

By: Cheryl Forbes

The main reason why people choose to go through Bariatric surgery is because of obesity. Surgery is usually the last resort people would take and the fact that they are now seriously considering surgery means that they have already explored other weight loss options such as exercise, diet and others. Doctors would also advise to take other options first before introducing bariatric surgery. What basically happens is a surgical band is placed around the gastrointestinal tract to reduce food intake. The urge to eat is lessened and one will no longer feel any hunger pangs.

Like any other surgeries, bariatric surgery patients need a support group. Family and friends should automatically support the patient. But there are other bariatric surgery support groups that the patient can turn to. It can even go as far as being part of a buddy system when one monitors the "buddy's" food intake. These are just steps to ensure that the road to being healthy and thin is a successful one.

There will always be success stories and there will always be unsuccessful ones. There are instances when the person who underwent through the operation went back to overeating. What accompanies the surgery is the discipline that one needs in order for it to be successful. There will be a complete turn-around with the way one eats. If one does not follow the doctor's orders and overeats, the band will be forcefully removed because the small portion of the stomach cannot take the amount of food that one has consumed. This is the hardest part. It is not the surgery itself that is hard but what comes after, the discipline that the surgery needs for the band to stay in place. This is the very reason why support groups exist.***

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Cheryl Forbes owns and operates the website http://www.bariatric-surgery-support.org
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