Yesterday we entered into our program a very nice woman who actually lives in Texas but works and travels to d.c. often enough that she is able to do our program. Her weight loss goal was to lose about 60 pounds. The patient was a bit frustrated that her primary care physician in Texas recommended to her that she consider a gastric bypass procedure as her remedy for the obesity.
Surgery? I absolutely agree that for some patients, surgery is the only option. However, if a person has not tried a medical program (no less the very BEST medical wight loss program in the country...modest, aren't I??? laughing) why would a physician recommend surgery right off the bat?
We have placed many patients in our weight loss program who already had bariatric surgery and they gained tremendous amounts of weight back. People who have the procedure still eat the same damagng food sources after surgery in many cases, but they learn how to separate out the portions so as not to do lots of eating at one time.
Learning how to eat the correct admixture of the different food groups, incorporating new behavioral strategies and "mentating" through difficult stress issues as opposed to eating are the steps necessary for lon term success in weight control. Surgery is the last option.
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