What is your opinion about weight loss surgery?

I don't need it...I am just asking!

Nobody is willing to take a challenge anymore -- instead of eating right, exercising, and staying healthy, people would rather get all their blubber cut out for big bucks and not always have satisfying results. Look at what the world is becoming!

it never helps ! your weight will come back.
And is dangerous too ! I had two collegues who were nearly killed caused by surgery problems

Try to lose weight on your own first. If it doesn't work and
you're that large to need it, you should get it. The risk of complications during surgery or death of heart disease at an early age? I'd do the surgery. You'll drastically improve your quality of life.

If you are seriously obese and the weight is effecting your helath then I say go ahead with the surgury. Once you are well you must eat right and began a strict work out regimen or else you will gain the weight back. Good Luck.

I have often thought of surgery to fix my problem but I think I can do it on my own if I really make the commitment and try hard. I have been eating healthy and exercising for 2 months and I have lost 15 pounds. I don't want to risk losing my life because I am to lazy to fix the problem without surgery. That being said if I cannot lose the weight after I have given 100% then I will consult a physician and discuss the procedure with him.

Weight loss surgery-like gastric bypass /lap band surgery / stomach stapling and gastrectomy have become very common and very safe now. My cousin got her Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in India. She has lost more than 65 lbs in 5 months and is very happy with the results. The price for obesity surgery is very less in India. My cousin just paid 25% of the cost she was quoted in America. She got her surgery from a company called Forerunners Healthcare.

Forerunners Healthcare is very famous in India. I read a lot about them in the Newspapers and magazines. I have read a lot of their patient stories also. They arrange financing for USA, Canadian, UK and other international patients who plan to have surgery abroad for low cost, as bariatric surgery and weight loss surgery is not covered by insurance. They also have photos pasted of their International patients. You can checkout their website. There are huge cost savings. As a doctor I personally believe that your Obesity surgery can be easily handled in India, as the quality of healthcare available In India is simply best in the world. The surgeons are USA/UK trained and facilities are 5 star.

http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com
Hope this helps.

I've been through 99% of the BS insurance companies require to even consider paying. I have a lot of questions which no one can answer that make me very leery of taking the next steps. I currently get very sick from nearly everything I eat --it refuses to stay in my body (yet I am still fat) and no one knows why or if the surgery will help me or make me get even sicker.
That said, I know a lot of people who have had the surgery, it went well for them, and they feel good. It doesn't give you the taut body of a teenager unless you have a lot of follow-up plastic surgery. You have hanging ugly folds of skin. But you'll be healthier.
What a lot of people don't tell you is that after about 3 years your body has adjusted to the tiny amounts of food, your stomach is stretching back out, and you can (and probably will) start to gain again. A friend of mine lost over 200 lbs and at 24 months or so started putting it back on, despite an intense exercise program.
It's a tool to adjust your eating habits. It's not magic. It's major surgery with all the attendant risks (and a few more). People have died. For a while it was something like 1% but now it's more like 1 in 400 (depends on the surgeon).
I would get the lap-band which is adjustable and also reversible. I would get the gastric balloon (temporary and only available in Canada) or the gastric pump (still in testing) which tells your stomach it's full all the time via electrical energy. But right now, I would NOT get a bypass.