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<blockquote data-quote="gfmoore" data-source="post: 586638" data-attributes="member: 108280"><p>You sort of have to do the Newcastle diet anyway before the surgery - e.g. two weeks of milk, in order to get the liver size down so they can have room to work with the keyhole surgery stuff.</p><p></p><p>There was a series of tv programmes showing actual doctors doing actual operations on actual people here in Britain (Coventry?) about a year ago - on Channel 4 or 5 I think. I can't remember the name of the series, but You Tube may help. Some of those people were very very large.</p><p></p><p>I thought about it. The gastric band doesn't really work as well as you might hope, the "proper one is where they move your tubes around a bit e.g. roux en y. This is the one that makes your blood sugar miraculously normal.</p><p></p><p>I personally decided in the end that it was too much re-plumbing and moved on.</p><p></p><p>The other issue you need to consider is that if/when the weight does come off you will have large folds of skin where the fat has gone - the skin doesn't shrink as fast as the weight loss. The NHS does no fund cosmetic surgery as far as I know for this. The folds can cause their own major body image issues and can cause skin infections and rashes etc.</p><p></p><p>Trythe low carb high fat approach first, you may well be astonished if you do it properly and there are loads of people here who will help you and encourage you. The main thing is that you have taken control. All the best.</p><p></p><p>edit: I think it was called Fat Surgeons?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gfmoore, post: 586638, member: 108280"] You sort of have to do the Newcastle diet anyway before the surgery - e.g. two weeks of milk, in order to get the liver size down so they can have room to work with the keyhole surgery stuff. There was a series of tv programmes showing actual doctors doing actual operations on actual people here in Britain (Coventry?) about a year ago - on Channel 4 or 5 I think. I can't remember the name of the series, but You Tube may help. Some of those people were very very large. I thought about it. The gastric band doesn't really work as well as you might hope, the "proper one is where they move your tubes around a bit e.g. roux en y. This is the one that makes your blood sugar miraculously normal. I personally decided in the end that it was too much re-plumbing and moved on. The other issue you need to consider is that if/when the weight does come off you will have large folds of skin where the fat has gone - the skin doesn't shrink as fast as the weight loss. The NHS does no fund cosmetic surgery as far as I know for this. The folds can cause their own major body image issues and can cause skin infections and rashes etc. Trythe low carb high fat approach first, you may well be astonished if you do it properly and there are loads of people here who will help you and encourage you. The main thing is that you have taken control. All the best. edit: I think it was called Fat Surgeons? [/QUOTE]
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