Weight loss surgery as a last resort!

I couldn't believe my ears when my girlfriend said she wanted to have some weight loss surgery for thinning down her thighs. There's nothing wrong with them! Ok, so she's no twiggy, but she's certainly not a fatso either. I blame the media for all their advertising and articles for weight loss surgery, convincing folks that are not overweight that they are, and that surgery for weight loss is the answer to all of their prayers.

If fat sucking operations should not be used purely for cosmetic purposes, then who really needs weight loss surgery? Well, weight loss surgery is a drastic measure to lower body weight, and should be reserved for people who are suffering from serious adverse health effects due to their weight. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly more popular in the United States following in the recent weight loss craze fads and trends.

There are a few different kinds of weight loss surgery used today, but the most popular forms fall under different types of gastric bypasses. Gastric bypasses all basically limit the size of your stomach, and reduce the amount of small intestine that your food will pass through before entering the large intestine and ultimately leaving your body. Because the vast majority of what you eat, including fats, are absorbed in your small intestine, reducing the amount of contact your food has with your small intestine will dramatically lower the amount of new material introduced into your body.

Weight loss surgeries are extremely effective in helping you dramatically lower your weight. However, every form of weight loss surgery of course has a lot of serious risks and adverse health effects associated with it. With gastric bypass surgeries, for example, the contents of your stomach may leak into the surrounding areas, damaging tissues and surrounding organs from the highly concentrated acids.

The popularity of drastic weight loss surgery is a concerning trend. While many surgeons will not perform a weight loss surgery on anyone whose health isn’t directly in immediate danger due to their obesity, there are plenty of surgeons that will perform the procedures on just about anyone willing to pay. The overuse of weight loss surgery is therefore a subject of ethical controversy amongst doctors today.

Additionally, weight loss after surgery, is not guaranteed if the patients does nothing to change his or her lifestyle post operation. Just imagine going through some grueling surgical procedure and a really unpleasant recovery period, just to find you end up back where you started, or worse still, fatter than ever.

Pointing fingers at doctors won’t really solve anything, however. There is a high degree of demand for easy and fast weight loss methods, so there’s always going to be people willing to capitalize on the demand. It’s important to keep in mind that weight loss surgery is a last resort measure, and should only even be considered if you’ve both tried all other forms of weight loss, and are suffering potentially serious health effects, such as heart attacks, or heart disease, due to your weight.

For people who are suffering from serious weight related heart or circulation disorders, weigh loss surgery may be a life saving, or at least life prolonging, operation. Though they are all still risky procedures, they are becoming less invasive and more efficient all the time.

As for the liposuction my girlfriend is preoccupied about, I think it's just crazy. Having a suction-pump device poking around her upper thighs is just a lazy way to trim down as far as I'm concerned, and I just hope I can talk here out of it. The thing that worries me most about any weight loss surgery is that if the patient is happy with the results, they may start looking at what else they can do to improve their shape, and so starts an unhealthy obsession for perfection between them, the surgeon, and his knife.