After this surgery, isn't there a situation where you throw up or get severe diarrhea if you overeat or eat the wrong foods?
Posted on 09/22/2006 12:28:44 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The 322-pound, redmeat-loving Dorchester dad who stuffed his face with pizza, steak tips, prime rib and fast food in a final fling before stomach-shrinking surgery, found out yesterday that the gravy train has reached the end of the line.
His surgeon won’t operate until he drops 40 pounds and gains some new perspective.
“It couldn’t have went any worse,” said Chris “Tiger” Stockbridge, 34, who claims he’s a changed man, finally ready to follow doctor’s orders and submit to a life of oatmeal, salad and fish, if that’s what it takes.
“I felt a little bit ashamed of myself,” he said. “I wasn’t ashamed of the binge I went on, but I was ashamed about the way I was living.”
Stockbridge said he went on a two-week binge, which the Herald chronicled, at all his favorite restaurants, believing that after gastric bypass surgery his love of food would be gone.
Dr. David Lautz, director of bariatric surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said the surgery is about much more than food. Many patients, including Stockbridge, mistakenly believe that once they have the surgery, keeping the weight off will be easy and they won’t have to struggle because they won’t be able to eat much food.
“The worry is that patients will view the surgery as a total fix of the problem and it needs to be incorporated with sticking to a diet, including exercise,” he said.
Stockbridge, after seeing a nutritionist and surgeon, realizes now that he’ll have to change more than his diet.
“They want you to demonstrate that you are really serious about this, that you aren’t just thinking this is going to be a savior,” he said. “I’m at my peak and I just want to put it all in the rearview mirror. Maybe this can be my second chance,” he said.
Stockbridge is on a low-fat, 1,700-calorie-a-day diet and has been ordered to exercise and see a counselor as part of the program.
His diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol all must be in check before the surgery, he said.
Only after that will his surgeon perform the surgery, which will reduce his stomach pouch by 85 percent, to the size of a hard-boiled egg.
Stockbridge’s primary motivation for getting the surgery, which results in death in about three of every 200 cases, has always been his four kids, he said.
In the cafeteria at Faulkner Hospital, where he’ll have the procedure, he said he’d already turned over a new leaf.
“I’m looking at a salad bar and I’m thinking ‘That’s my future,’ ” he said. “Every time I think of cheating I’m going to think of my kids and that’s going to stop me from cheating.”
After this surgery, isn't there a situation where you throw up or get severe diarrhea if you overeat or eat the wrong foods?
also, the weight falls off for a while, but then there is a period where you have to actually work to get if off.....including exercise....
I don't know how anybody could have that surgery......it could change your whole socialization since the buying of, preparing of, sharing of food is a main part of human life.....
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