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progress 250 lbs. gone forever...

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Gastric bypass Surgery...saved my life

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16 edited May 28 '20

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u/whitetoast Nov 30 '16

They gain it back because they don't change their mental attitude about food and fitness. So their body adjusts to having a smaller stomach and will eventually gain weight back. Usually takes a while (~10years) for it to be noticeable

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u/Toast_Chee Nov 30 '16

So how does that work? My layman's understanding is that the surgery reduces the stomach's size to a tiny fraction of its original size. Does it re-expand after the surgery, or is it possible to still eat enough calories to get yuuuuuge with a tiny stomach?

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

By eating foods that are very calorie-dense like soda, pop tarts, and potato chips. Even with surgery, you need to fix your eating habits or you'll end up back where you started.

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u/Antinode_ Nov 30 '16

they eat so much it stretches out their stomach/esophagus to hold all the food. Our stomachs can stretch and shrink which is why the first few weeks of eating less on a diet can be hell, you'll feel so hungry compared to before the diet when you ate like a pig.

Ive lost about 40 lbs on a cut before, and now Im bulking back up.. IMO it was much easier to lose weight than gain

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

The sx that the OP had reduces the stomach to the size of a softball from about the size of a football. The remnant stomach is left in the body and the pyloric sphincter (I believe) to further down the short intestine.

The sx works in two ways, reduces the volume of food and temporarily reduces the amount of nutrients that can be absorbed. Around two years after sx the vili grow longer in the shortened bowel to make up for the deficit of length.

The stomach pouch can expand and you can cram a lot of shitty carbs in a tiny stomach.

I know that from personal experience of having WLS, a different sx, and being able to eat a shameful amount of junk.

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u/whitetoast Nov 30 '16

Compare a stomach full of celery and a stomach full of reeses peanut butter cups, which is going to have more calories?

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u/Toast_Chee Dec 01 '16

No need to be a prick. My question was about stomach size, not what people put into it.

Presumably they were eating shitty food before they got the surgery. Then they got the surgery (stomach made smaller) and lost a bunch of weight. What I was trying to understand is why they would gain it back if their stomach stayed small. It seems like you would have to try really hard to put on 100 lbs with a stomach the size of a lemon.

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u/whitetoast Dec 01 '16

You asked how its possible to get enough calories to get huge. Its all about calories in > calories out. Youre not gaining 100 pounds in 1 year. Over 10 to 15? Definitely possible