Lap Band Surgery Failure – You can Fail to Lose Weight after the Gastric Band

What causes lap band surgery failure? Many potential candidates for weight loss surgery have asked this question. Could you go through a obesity surgery procedure, like the gastric band, and still not lose weight? The answer is YES.

What many obese and morbidly obese people need to know is that weight loss surgery is a tool designed to help you to lose weight. It is not a magic operation that removes your bad eating habits, food addictions, and lack of exercise. You still have to make those changes for yourself.

So how else can people not lose weight after surgery? You could fail to lose weight after having the lap or gastric band bariatric surgery in various ways. One way you could not see success is by not making healthy food choices. Although the band restricts the amount of food you are able to take in, if you continue to eat foods high in fat, cholesterol, sugar, and sodium, you may hinder your weight loss after surgery.

Another way some people don’t see the scale dropping in the right direction is because of grazing. Grazing is where you eat small amounts of food all day long. So you have a little snack now, and something else in 20 or 30 minutes, a sandwich in an hour, and the list goes on. You should be eating at your designated meal times, two healthy (small portioned) snack options for the day to be eaten between meals, and that is all.

A big cause of lap band surgery failure is also lack of exercise. To lose weight you have to consume fewer calories and/or burn more calories each day. If you have ever lost weight before you know that the first 10 to 20 pounds are the easiest and it gets harder from there. That’s because your body adjusts to the new changes and “learns” how to live off of the lower calorie consumption.

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