Patient Information Book For Gastric Bypass Surgery - permanente.net

Eventually, some of the effects of surgery begin to wear off and it is the
permanent change in lifestyle, based on motivation and willpower, that
ensures long term success.
In the long run, the lifelong changes in diet and exercise, not surgery, result
in weight loss and better health. Motivated patients can keep 50% to 80% of
their excess weight off after 10 years.
All operations carry a small risk of death and well as complications and
reoperation.
It does not make sense to accept the small but real risk of death if you are
not committed to the lifelong changes which will result in sustainable weight
loss and improvement in your overall health.
Ultimately it is you who must make the choice, on a DAILY basis, to change
your lifestyle and change your life. It is the only way to make sure that the
small but very real risks of surgery are worth the benefits of better long term
health.