Obesity Weight Loss Surgery - A Last Chance to Save Your Life

Obesity weight loss surgery is used to save people from the effects severe or morbid obesity and the ever-increasing damage to their bodies that results from continual overeating.
Stomach stapling used to be the go some years back. A gastric surgeon and his team would open up your abdominal cavity and take a surgical staple gun to your stomach, "sewing" it up with a line of staples so it could not hold half as much food as it could previously.
Today there is a quicker procedure known as laporoscopic stomach banding, where the surgical team uses a keyhole procedure to slip a rubber belt or band around your stomach so it cannot swell up so much as it is being filled with food.
Both of these techniques prevent you from being able to stuff as much food into your belly as before, and the result is that you begin to lose weight almost immediately.
But weight-loss surgery is only a temporary fix for the physical side of the compulsive overeating problem. It does nothing to control your food cravings, the desire for sweet snacks or fat-laden foods even when your body has far more food and calories than it needs.
Calories convert into sugars, which represent stored energy. They circulate through your body in the bloodstream, and when they're used up by muscular activity - i.e. physical exercise - then that same sugar gets converted to FAT and stored away in your body for future use.
Overeaters have so much "energy" stored away, that their body gets fat, fatter and obese. And we all know that the bigger you get, the less you want to move. It's all too much effort.
Many in the medical profession laud obesity weight loss surgery as the answer to food addiction and severe obesity. But I would argue that all these learned medical men and women are doing is treating the symptoms, and never the cause.
What the doctors don't tell you is that many overeaters will continue to try and force more food into their banded, stapled stomachs.
Over a period of years, those banded or stapled stomachs will become stretched and extended, so they gradually expand back more and more. Eventually some will be capable of holding just as much food as they could before the operation.
If or when this happens, you will be back to where you started and all that expensive obesity weight loss surgery will have cured nothing. But it does buy you some extra time. I urge you to start working on the root cause of your overeating problem by attending Overeaters Anonymous, Food Addicts Anonymous or other not-for-profit 12 Steps groups... or you may prefer professional (paid) counseling therapy.