Male Story of Weight Loss

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WOW!!! Over 4 years now and lovin' life!!!

Welcome to my personal WLS Web Site

www.vincentwilliams.com

Male perspective to weight loss surgery, a mental view and outlook on how surgery has changed my life.

"Male Story of Weight Loss"

This website is an account of my journey through educating myself, experiencing and using tools of Weight Loss Surgery. With the help from the surgeon, surgery, therapist, group-support, and my partner, I will be successful in obtaining my goals. Any questions pre-operative or post-operative patients have please feel free to e-mail me. Maybe I can help, if I can't, I can put you in touch with a person that can. You can also go directly to Dr. Barry L Fisher, MD FACS at: Surgical Weight Control Center

Please make sure you take a look at the other pages at my site for helpful information. Below you will find a BMI calculator and points of Bariatric Surgery. Good luck if you are considering surgery for permanent long term weight control.

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Introduction ~ There is considerable misinformation concerning the validity of bariatric surgery in the management of morbid obesity. The following "Rationale for Surgery" covers the field in general. References are provided to allow the interested reader to obtain more detailed information along with the opportunity to examine the original data on which these statements are based. Follow the Web Link below ASBS.

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MORBID OBESITY ~ Clinically Morbid obesity correlates with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 or with being 100 pounds overweight.

TREATMENT GOALS ~ Surgical treatment is medically necessary because it is the only proven method of achieving long term weight control for the morbidly obese. Patients whose BMI exceeds 40 are potential candidates for surgery if they strongly desire substantial weight loss, because obesity morbidly impairs the quality of their lives. They must clearly and realistically understand how their lives may change after operation.

Bariatric surgery involves reducing the size of the stomach, with or without a degree of associated malabsorption. Eating behavior improves dramatically. This reduced caloric intake and ensures that the patient practices behavior modification by eating small amounts slowly, and chews each mouthful well.

PREOPERATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING ~ There are two possible reasons for pre-operative psychological testing before bariatric surgery. One method is to weed out those with significant psychopathology, the other to pre-select those in whom the surgery is likely to be a success. Unfortunately psychological evaluation has proven of limited value in both these situations.

TREATMENT GOALS ~ Success of surgical treatment must begin with realistic goals and progress through the best possible use of well designed and tested operations. These have been worked out over the last thirty years, and are now standardized, clearly defined procedures, with well recognized and documented outcome results.

Surgical treatment should be offered to patients who are morbidly obese, well informed, motivated, and acceptable operative risks.

Weight loss usually reaches a maximum between 18 and 24 months postoperatively.

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This page was last updated on 02/20/2006 .

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