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Weight Lost Surgery?


henn

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Hello,

This is my first entry on this site and I am excited about finding individuals with celiac who also have weight-lost issues. I am extremely overweight and am looking for a weight-lost solution. I am considering surgery, but have not found anyone with my problem that has had any type of gastric bypass surgery.

Can anyone help with this? I am going to see a surgeon in a few weeks (I haven't told him about the celiac).

Thanks for any help you can give.

henn


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Personally, I'm not a fan of the surgery option. I've seen too many patients with complications and many of those who don't have the surgical complications eventually gain back the weight, although slowly at first. I lost 100# the old fashioned way and have kept it off for more than 5 years now-even having a baby 3 years ago, I lost the baby weight within 6mo. If I can help at all, or if you're interested let me know. You can pm me if you feel more comfortable with that...

Good luck, whatever decision you make!!

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How long have you been gluten free? Many of us are the opposite of the weight loss celiac and gluten has caused us to gain. You may just find that eating gluten free with appropriate supplementation of whatever nutrients you are deficient in wil bring about natural weight loss. I have lost 44 lbs in a year but seem to have plateaued now.

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Hello,

This is my first entry on this site and I am excited about finding individuals with celiac who also have weight-lost issues. I am extremely overweight and am looking for a weight-lost solution. I am considering surgery, but have not found anyone with my problem that has had any type of gastric bypass surgery.

Can anyone help with this? I am going to see a surgeon in a few weeks (I haven't told him about the celiac).

Thanks for any help you can give.

henn

Because the main issue for celiacs (both the underweight AND the overweight celiacs) is malnutrition, I don't think that bariatric surgery is a good idea for us. I think you should give the gluten free diet several months to a year to see if that helps you lose weight before you do anything drastic and irreversible. In fact, I've already lost a little weight in 5 weeks gluten free, but I will be going on a low-carb gluten-free diet shortly to speed things up; many people in this forum are following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet which is helping them lose weight.

Please reconsider your decision; of course it's up to you, but from what I've heard, bariatric surgery frequently causes more problems than it solves.

Take care,

JoAnn

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