The human body is made up of trillions of cells. The body needs these cells to work together for it to function well. When the cells are not functioning well, disease occurs.

The first question you’ll ask yourself is: Okay, I know I need to lose weight, but why do I need to have weight loss surgery? And the answer is that it’s a surgical procedure for people who struggle with obesity and who can’t lose weight through other methods. If you’re someone who has tried and failed on and off again with diets for decades, then this might be the only way that you can lose the weight.

Bariatric surgery or weight loss surgery that helps people who are obese or severely overweight by either reducing the size of their stomach, making it smaller, or by creating a small pouch at the top of their stomach which can be used to hold food, so they can eat less without feeling hungry. This type of surgery also reduces how much food the intestines absorb so that calories are not absorbed as much.

Why Weight Loss Surgery?

Obesity is a chronic condition that can result from many causes. If you’re obese, you may have been diagnosed with a serious medical condition such as diabetes, high blood pressure or sleep apnea.

Benefits

• Improved cardiovascular health, 
• long-term remission of type 2 diabetes, 
• relief from depression, 
• eradication of obstructive sleep apnea, 
• alleviation of joint pain, 
• improvement of fertility, 
• alleviation of metabolic syndrome, 
• alleviation of pregnancy problems, and 
• alleviation of gallbladder disease

Weight loss surgery is the most effective treatment for obesity. In general, weight loss surgery can help you lose about 50% of your excess weight in the first year alone.

Weight loss surgeries are surgeries that involve altering the anatomy of a patient to make them either lose weight or maintain their weight loss. This is achieved by restricting food intake, changing the digestive system, or a combination of both.

In this section, we will look at how these types of weight loss surgery work and the different types available.

Weight loss surgery can give you a new lease on life. It is one of the most effective ways of losing weight quickly.

There are four popular types of weight loss surgery:

•          Adjustable gastric banding

•          Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

•          Biliopancreatic diversion with a duodenal switch

•          Vertical sleeve gastrectomy

Laparoscopic gastric banding:

A band is placed around the upper part of the stomach, creating a small pouch that limits how much food you can eat. You can still eat as much as you want, but it takes longer to feel full.

It is the most common weight loss surgery for those who are less than 100 pounds overweight. It is done by inserting a small tube through the patient’s abdomen. A band is then tightened around the upper stomach to create a small pouch that limits food intake.

The procedure has been shown to help people lose up to 50% of their excess weight within six months

The biggest risk of this type of surgery is that it can cause esophagus tears or ulcers. Patients are also at risk for having uncontrolled diabetes

Gastric bypass or Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass:

Food moves through your digestive system more quickly, so you feel fuller sooner. The surgeon creates a small pouch at the top of your stomach so food empties more quickly into your small intestine, bypassing most of your stomach and its acid contents.

Sleeve gastroplasties

Sleeve or vertical gastrectomies are weight-loss procedures frequently carried out laparoscopically. Approximately 75% of the stomach is removed during the treatment, leaving a tube-shaped stomach roughly the size and shape of a banana. Following surgery, the stomach can hold less food, resulting in quick and efficient weight loss. Patients recover faster with sleeve gastrectomy because no foreign body is inserted (unlike the adjustable gastric band) and there is no complicated intestinal reorganisation (unlike the gastric bypass).

Bariatric surgery is usually done by laparoscopic procedures under specialist weight loss surgeon or bariatric surgeon. A few days after the operation, patients can resume their normal diet.

Some people choose to have bariatric surgery due to many different reasons. For example, they want to get healthier, feel better about their appearance, or get back into life activities that were abandoned years ago due to their weight. There are many different reasons why people choose this type of surgery.

Some people say that they are tired of not being able to walk upstairs without gasping for air or taking a deep breath while some say they are simply tired of being fat while others say they want to be able to go on long walks or play with children without feeling out of breath or uncomfortable.

Regardless of the reason why an individual chooses bariatric surgery, it is important that they research all

Obesity is not only a social stigma but also the root cause of many ailments and health disorders.

The Internet is full of solutions from quick weight loss diet plans (like keto) to proven clinical weight loss treatments. But not all these options are suitable for everyone and they may not be healthy to try on your own. Eating healthy food and exercising is the right start. Although at times it may not give you desired results. Other non-surgical techniques for weight loss, although attractive are not always completely effective or permanent.

Most common ways to lose weight is dieting and exercising. But what should one do if that doesn’t work? Well, the answer is weight loss surgery. However, weight loss surgery isn’t an alternative to diet and exercise—it is an addition to diet and exercise. With advancements in the medical field, there is nothing to be scared of. Bariatric surgery and liposuction are the top two surgical options.

 “What is the difference between bariatric surgery and liposuction” is one of the most commonly asked questions to a Bariatric Surgeon. Bariatric surgery and liposuction may seem similar, but they are actually very different. One of the most common misconceptions that people have is that bariatric surgery and liposuction are the same.

Here is a look at how bariatric surgery and liposuction compete.

Bariatric surgery or weight-loss surgery helps people lose weight and lowers risk of medical problems associated with obesity such as Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease. Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure intended to shape and contour the human body by removing excess fat but does not address the issues causing the weight gain.

Bariatric surgery is intended to treat patients who suffer from obesity. Liposuction is more commonly recommended for individuals who are not struggling with obesity, but rather have areas of stubborn fat that just won’t melt away with diet and exercise.

While one may initially lose weight or inches with liposuction it is not a permanent weight loss solution. On the other hand, bariatric surgery helps obese patients achieve and maintain healthy weights by restricting food intake. Both are effective and safe surgeries if done for the right reason.

Bariatric surgery or weight-loss surgery helps people with BMI ≥ 32.5 in losing weight by limiting the amount of food the stomach can hold, causing malabsorption of nutrients or by a combination of both gastric restriction and malabsorption. The two most common laparoscopic weight loss surgeries are Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy. Both can be performed by minimally invasive procedures.

Weight-loss surgery or bariatric surgery causes significant long-term loss of weight, recovery from diabetes and improvement in cardiovascular risk factors.

If you suffer from obesity and have been unsuccessful in losing weight through diet and exercise alone and are wondering if bariatric surgery is for you, contact Dr. Mir Asif Rehman (General & Laparoscopic surgeon).