Is this bad? I weigh about 315 pounds. Only reason I am getting it is because I have higher blood pressure than a 50 year old and I am borderline diabetic. Is it bad that I am getting this at such a young age?

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…yes, it is seriously troubling that a teenager needs this sort of surgical solution to weight problems.

That's not even the worst part. After surgery, you must begin an exercise regimen, and drastically transform your eating habits. It won't be enough to simply eat less. Your food has to be mostly grain and produce, with very little meat and dairy product consumed each day. You have to strictly avoid food products that list corn syrup as their main ingredient. This means, in part, never drinking anything but water and skim milk ever again. If you do not do these things, you will eventually put the weight back on.

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After gastric bypass you won't be able to eat much more than a sandwich at a time, once every hour or so. FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Stop eating fucking bacon and cheese sandwiches wrapped in more bacon for god sakes. It takes 3 seconds to find a suitable diet and exercise regime online.

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This. How about you stop fucking eating?
How did you even fucking manage to get to 315? Didn't you step on the scale at 200? When it creaks, that's a bad sign you know.
Honestly… How do people get so big without… worrying… or something, take care of your body. You pig.

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Ok, I could write a really long helpful post, but it's late at night, and I suck at motivating people anyway.

Yes, it's really really bad, and you should do something about it.

Unless you have some debilitating disease (lazyfatass syndrome doesn't cut it) which causes you to be over weight regardless of your efforts to the contrary.

Weather you get the bypass or not, you really need to make so lifestyle changes if you don't want to die of a heart attack at 25 or so years old, or from other complications.

I wasn't nearly as over weight as you, but 230 lbs at 5'10 5'11 or so it's still obese, I just did a little exercise and stopped drinking sodas and dropped to 210, then I actually began to eat a really healthy diet and hit 195. I added exercise, and now I'm 185-190 with a fair bit of muscle at 6'1. Sure, it took me three years of slowly changing my life style, but it was completely worth it.

My opinion? Being fit kicks ass, find any kind of sport you'd like to do(Kyaking, hiking, running, parkour, tricking, basketball, tennis, etc). Then work towards getting in shape enough to do that. Spend a month or two reading up on diet, health and fitness on the internet. And none of that pansy ass bullshit like "lose 20 lbs in one month!" or "Eat whatever you want and still lose weight" THEY ARE ALL SCAMS. Period, end of story. You better be reading from sites like bodybuilding.com and others like it (read their forums).

While your learning about how exactly to do what it is you want to do. IMPROVE YOUR DIET. It's far more important then exercise, cut out all junk food, fast food, and candy. Most instant food, and everything drinkable except water and organic low fat milk are also unacceptable. Get at least 8 hours of sleep every day, and drink a crap ton of water.

And well, there is plenty more to tell you, but your smart(even if you don't think so), between you and google you should be able to learn the rest on your own.

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Avoid salty snacks - The sodium affects how much water your body retains. Do around 5 meals a day but make it small. The more often you "snack" the less intense the hunger pains are. The size of the portions should be around the size of your fist. Also, Lots of water since it helps dilute the sodium ratio in the blood and sometimes, some hunger pains are actually thirst pains. Drink before you eat just to make sure.

Cook your own food - The majority of prepped foods are heavy in salt, oil or chemicals that do not help you with your goals of a healthy weight. When you cook, be sure to taste your cooking often to make sure it's not under/over seasoned and is on the right track.

Before you exercise, eat a small amount of carbs and be sure to bring plenty of water.

Exercise gradually - Use some time on weights since that increases your metabolism, and when you do cardio - Do NOT do excessive time or prolonged intensity, That would cause your body to use readily available energy instead of the energy your fat stores. Try to do a easy going pace of 4 mins and 30 seconds of fast and intense…. then 4 mins of casual, 30 secs of intense so on until you feel all good from your exercise. 20 mins total cardio seems normal.

That method is called interval training. It's more effective since it utilizes both of the twitch muscles and performance/endurance muscles.

Do your exercises in the morning so it becomes routine and expected - set aside 40 mins for that. If you need, try having a partner or a trainer. It becomes more difficult to justify not doing the exercise due to quick excuses.

Talk a lot when you eat or do something while you eat like reading or puzzles. That causes you to slow down the pace of the food that's going in your body and gives your body time to feel satisfied. It takes the body 8 to 20 mins to get that feeling after you reach the amount you're supposed to eat at the time.

If all of those don't work - I would be very surprised.

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I don't believe it's an easy way out… Gastric bypass is painful and the procedure would fail if the patient does not follow the strict diet after the surgery.

When I say fail, imagine your stomach trying to expand past what the staples allow. it would rip itself.

The easy way out are the exercise and change for healthy eating habits. I have found in my experience that most people that can't lose weight don't know how to do it right. Exercise can only increase your body energy expenditure so far.

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