Emergency Weight Loss Surgery Options: What Are They And Which Is Best For You?

Millions of adults — 63 percent of the population — throughout the UK are overweight or obese. 

Every year, 29 million of these people try to lose weight, but the majority of them are unsuccessful.

Does these stats resonate with you? Do you feel that you’ve tried everything to lose weight, to no avail? 

If you’re having a hard time losing weight, you may want to consider weight loss surgery to give you a jumpstart toward reaching your goals.

Read on to learn more about some of the best and most effective weight loss surgery options.

Benefits of Weight Loss Surgery

There are many reasons why you might want to consider weight loss surgery, including the following:

• Lose weight quickly
• Increase lifespan
• Improve symptoms of or achieve remission from chronic diseases like diabetes
• Improve cardiovascular health
• Relieve feelings of depression and improve overall mental health
• Improve your quality of life
• Improve sleep quality and reduce sleep apnea symptoms
• Improve fertility

Weight loss surgery can also be very helpful to those who suffer from arthritis or chronic joint pain. Losing weight helps to minimize pressure placed on the joints.

Best Weight Loss Surgery Options

If any of these benefits sound appealing to you, you might be seriously considering weight loss surgery. Which type of surgery should you choose, though? 

Listed below are some of the most well-known and most effective weight loss surgery options you might want to consider:

Sleeve Gastrectomy

A sleeve gastrectomy procedure involves separating and removing a portion of the stomach from the body. A surgeon then restructures the remaining portion of the stomach to form a tubelike structure.

Essentially, this procedure shrinks the stomach. As a result, the stomach cannot hold as much food. It also will produce smaller amounts of ghrelin, a hormone that triggers feelings of hunger.

The good thing about the sleeve gastrectomy procedure is that it doesn’t impact that body’s ability to absorb nutrients and calories.

Gastric Bypass

Gastric bypass is a popular weight loss surgeon option that involves the creation of a small pouch at the top of your stomach. 

In addition to creating a pouch at the top of the stomach, a surgeon also cuts the small intestine and connects it to the pouch. Food then flows directly to the intestine from the pouch. 

Like the sleeve gastrectomy, this procedure shrinks the stomach and limits the amount of food you can consume at one time. 

This surgery doesn’t hinder the stomach’s ability to create digestive juices. As a result, the body can still digest food properly and there is less of a risk of digestive distress (as there is with some types of weight loss surgery).

Biliopancreatic Diversion

This surgery is similar to the sleeve gastrectomy procedure.

It starts with a surgeon removing part of the stomach and leaving behind the valve that releases food into the small intestine. The surgeon leaves behind the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine) as well.

Once they’ve removed part of the stomach, the surgeon closes off the middle portion of the intestine and attach the duodenum and last part of the intestine together.

Instead of removing the separated middle portion of the intestine, the surgeon reattaches it so that it becomes the end of the intestine. This lets bile and pancreatic juices — which are necessary for digestion — flow directly to the end of the intestine.

The result of this procedure is that, when food is consumed, it will bypass the majority of the small intestine. This limits calorie absorption and promotes more weight loss than shrinking the stomach alone.

Vagal Blockade

A vagal blockade is similar to a pacemaker. It’s a small device that is implanted under the rib cage and is operated by remote control. The device sends electrical impulses to the vagus nerve.

Stimulating the vagus nerve sends a signal to the brain that the stomach is full. This, in turn, helps you to control your appetite and avoid overeating. 

This is a minimally invasive procedure and it’s a great option for individuals who are nervous about undergoing a more serious surgical procedure.

AspireAssist

The AspireAssist is another minimally invasive procedure that involves device implantation.

AspireAssist is a tube that is implanted in the body and sits flush against the abdomen.

Once you’ve eaten, you attach to the tube to an external draining device. The device removes food matter and deposits in the toilet, where it can be flushed away.

With the use of the AspireAssist device, you only consume about 70 percent of the calories you consume.

Because the AspireAssist device limits calorie and nutrient absorption, nutritional and protein supplementation are necessary for most people.

Gastric Balloon

The gastric balloon is not technically a surgical procedure, but it’s still one you might want to consider is you have excess weight to lose.

According to Next Level Weight-Loss, it’s minimally invasive and doesn’t come with the same amount of downtime as some other weight loss procedures. It does, however, yield similar results. 

With this procedure, a special balloon is placed in the stomach via the mouth. Once the balloon has been placed, it is filled with a saline solution. This leads to a sense of fullness and minimizes hunger and the likelihood that you will overeat. 

The gastric balloon is a temporary procedure. It stays in place for six months and then gets removed.

Many people see great results from this procedure. In six months, they can lose approximately 10 percent of their excess body weight.

Lose the Weight and Keep it Off

As you can see, there are plenty of weight loss surgery options that will help you get started on your weight loss journey.

In order to keep the weight that you lost off long-term, though, you’ll need to make some permanent changes to your lifestyle. This includes eating a healthy diet and exercising on a regular basis.

If you need help making these kinds of lifestyle changes, contact us at Lep Fitness today to learn more about our personal training packages.

We’ll give you the tools you need to make permanent, positive changes.