GASTRIC BYPASS AND JUICE FASTING: THOUGHTS

If you've read any of my previous posts, you may have seen that I have been seriously considering having gastric bypass surgery, and have gone through all the steps requisite for that surgery. My hesitance has been the whole idea of invasive surgery to mutilate a perfectly-healthy organ, my stomach, just so I won't stuff as much food and faux-food into my face.

This seems like maybe it is not the wisest thing for me to do. After all, Gastric Bypass is not miraculous and it is not magic. It doesn't make you thin. What gastric does is give you a window of opportunity during which you are unable to ingest more than the smallest amount of food, most of it liquid. This gives you an opportunity to think about food and your relationship to it while you very quickly lose a good amount of weight. With any luck and a decent amount of motivation and support, you will continue to lose weight once you are eating again. And, with a little more luck and a good amount of motivation and support, you will maintain your large weight loss and have you life. Or have it back again, depending on when and how you gained all that weight.

Sort of like juice-fasting, except without the major surgery. Except doing it this way you have a choice at any moment to go get a burger (vegan Boca) and (baked) fries.

Might work for some people to "reboot" as Joe Cross says.