When you talk about weight loss, the. visible. benefits of bariatric surgery are quite low, with only a small percentage keeping weight loss off. Clinical benefits are more encouraging, as it extends life, can cure diabetes, constant skin infections, and other illnesses. Thesecpeople tend to always be fat but many do go back to 700s.
A person can’t just have surgery and be done with it. Dietary, physical, occupational, and psychiatric therapy must be included. Boogie, mentioned earlier, skipped. His weight loss stalled at 350. He still uses a scooter. One year olut. he is back to old habits and beginning to gain.
Psychological therapy is important as a person needs to understand why they turn to food and have different coping mechanisms put into place. For the Slatons dietary is most important as I’m sure they have no idea what to eat, how to calculate calories what a carb is, how to make a list weekly and not have temptation around. The biggest problem with the Slatons is they are (IMO) too stupid to learn.
It’s true that eating is very restricted for the first six months. Eating the wrong food or too much will make a person very ill. However, people like Boogie learn ways of getting around it. Melted chocolate is not as difficult and your new digestion can adjust, a bite every 10 minutes can be done. The stomach can be stretched out relatively quickly. And even for people who follow directions and want long-lasting results can eat normally after a year.
The entire point of this surgery is as a tool to end cravings and allow people to get psychological help, and other help, so they can be successful on their own. And it doesn’t always work:Sean Milkin got from 1,000 lbs to 400, ate himself back up to 900, was hospitalized and got down to 500, went home and gained 200, hospitalized again, back down to low 500s and when released, ate enough to gain 280 in six weeks. Cost him $9,000. He died soon after. That was all post-surgery.
That’s why Dr Now makes them lose weight on their own. Surgery won’t last forever and they need to know how to power through a craving. Sean never did lose it on his own but Dr now took a chance as he was near death.
Only a few Doctors in the country operate on people over 400 lbs. as anesthesia can kill them.
Bottom line: Tammy is far too stupid for this to be a success. I believe even with extensive training she’ll never understand how to do it. Any isn’t much better but I think those 20 IQ points could make a difference.