Gastric Bypass Surgery may not be a suitable option for a few people. If you are one of those few, there are a few surgical and non-surgical alternatives which are as follows
Lap-Band Gastric Restriction
- This procedure involves fastening a tight band around the stomach and making a separate smaller stomach.
- This will restrict your food intake to great extent, and make you feel full for longer time.
- There is no cutting or stomach rerouting involved.
- It is the least invasive procedure, and yet gives good results with less pain and scars.
- Another great advantage of this procedure is, the band can be loosened to increase the stomach size during illness or pregnancy.
Vertical Banded Gastroplasty
- This is a common alternative for gastric bypass surgery.
- The procedure involves a surgical technique called stomach stapling.
- A smaller stomach pouch is made and the remaining stomach is stapled, this reduces the food intake to a great extent.
- In critical conditions this procedure is reversible.
Non-Surgical Procedures
Dietary Therapy
- Here the weight loss can be achieved steadily.
- Adherence to very strict diet, in order to reduce the calorie intake.
- The therapy involves educating the individuals about calorie and protein contents in different foods.
- Understanding nutrition labels and nutritional food preparations.
- This therapy will make the obese people to adhere on low-fat and low-calorie diet regimes at all times.
Exercise Therapy
- Moderate physical exercise is the first step, and it is an important step for treating obesity.
- Special exercise routines will be developed as a part of this therapy, these routines are designed for progressing beyond the normal 30 minutes regime.
- These exercises mainly target the waist circumference and abdominal fat
- The routine includes Aerobic exercises, brisk walking, dance routines, jogging, cycling and swimming.
Behavior Therapy
- This is aimed to improve an individuals habits, exercise patterns and diet activities.
- The therapy mainly focuses on effective weight loss solutions and on identifying any associated high risk situations.
- Usually the patient will be rewarded for consuming no fatty foods or for exercising longer.
- One of the main concept of behavior therapy include, developing social support networks for encouraging and motivating weight loss in obese people.
