…Works Better Than A 500 Calorie Diet!
Posted by Lori on March 15, 2008
yeah, baby, cuz I been on 500 calorie diets and they are no fun.
Alright, i don’t know how missed this study. This is good to see.
Researchers at Monash University Medical School in Melbourne, Australia, recruited 80 patients who were on average 52 pounds over a healthy weight. Half had the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery.
The other half followed a medical program that included a variety of strategies such as a very-low-calorie diet (500 calories a day) with liquid meal replacements, prescription weight-loss medication and behavioral therapies.
And guess what we found out? The patients with lap band kept the weight off and the dieters didn’t.
After six months, both the surgery patients and the low-calorie dieters lost an average of 14 percent of their starting weight.
- After two years, the gastric band patients lost 22 percent of their starting weight. That was about 87 percent of their excess weight, or roughly 45 pounds. They also showed marked improvement in their health and quality of life.
- At the end of two years, the dieters had regained much of their lost weight but were still 5.5 percent below their starting weight. They had lost 22 percent of their excess weight, or about 12 pounds.
Lap bands allow you to get around the weight set point issue. After you’ve dieted a few pounds away, your body starts cranking your metabolism and it becomes harder and harder to lose weight – you’ve experienced this, no doubt. Unfortunately, it becomes easier and easier to put weight on and as soon as you stop dieting, your weight keeply rebounds to where it was before. But with weight loss surgery, the crank down in metabolism doesn’t happen and so you lose weight and you keep it off. Once you stabilize at given weight, you have the ability to stay there. That’s the key, right there.
Happy Saturday, folks. Now I’ve got a video interview to go finish cutting.
Neo said
That’s a very interesting study. Thanks for posting it.