The surgery can cause serious, lifelong gastrointestinal problems. It is a very serious surgery.
Most insurances require between 6-12 months of formal dietary counseling before they’ll approve the surgery. This is a very good thing.
Many of us, and I am including myself, who are overweight eat to try to ignore certain feelings or to comfort ourselves.
When the bypass surgery prevents you from overeating, you still have all those emotions inside that played a large part in your overeating.
Losing weight is one thing. Changing long-standing behavior patterns is harder. If you’d be willing to commit to counseling on an ongoing basis to help you face and work through whatever feelings are at the core of your overeating....after surgery ... you’d increase your chances of permanent weight loss.
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Most insurances require between 6-12 months of formal dietary counseling before they’ll approve the surgery. This is a very good thing.
Many of us, and I am including myself, who are overweight eat to try to ignore certain feelings or to comfort ourselves.
When the bypass surgery prevents you from overeating, you still have all those emotions inside that played a large part in your overeating.
Losing weight is one thing. Changing long-standing behavior patterns is harder. If you’d be willing to commit to counseling on an ongoing basis to help you face and work through whatever feelings are at the core of your overeating....after surgery ... you’d increase your chances of permanent weight loss.