Weight Loss Surgery vs. diets and exercise

Many people often think that losing weight through surgery is cheating.  

For almost all people, this is far from true.  Many have tried endless diets and exercise plans before they try weight loss surgery.  Also all of the health quality guidelines recommend that surgery should only be considered after everything else has been tried.

So how exactly does weight loss surgery compare to diets and exercise?

Well, let's look at dieting first.

The best evidence from low calorie diets and behavioural therapy shows that, if successful, you could lose between 5-10% of your weight.  So if you weigh 20 stone, you may lose about 2 stones.  That's quite a good weight loss, but  one of the big issues with diets generally is that most people eventually regain the weight they lost initially.

For weight loss surgery, it really depends on which type you choose, but overall the range of weight loss is from about 10% to 33%.  So, if successful, and you weigh 20 stone, you could lose nearly 7 stone.  Also, most of the long term studies have shown that almost everyone is able to keep off the weight.

Weight loss surgery may not be for everyone, but if done professionally it can be life changing and significantly more successful than many diet programmes.

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