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It Can Be Done – An Inspiring Story
11 year ago
by Ron
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Posted with permission – A patient’s story of triumphant without surgery. Here’s their story:
Dr. Amson has requested that I write an outline of how I have been losing weight without having any form of weight loss surgery. If this helps others, than I am more than willing to share my journey and how I accomplished the most difficult change in my life.
I live in BC, I’m in my sixties, and now retired.
First let me state that after many years of working on my weight issues I have finally owned up to the fact that I am a foodaholic. In my case I feel it is an emotional based disease fuelled by old baggage from my younger years and a lack of self trust and self esteem. I have fought with this my whole life and I know I will continue to struggle with it for the remainder of my life. Keeping balance is my goal and I truly believe that in my case balance is also the answer to loosing weight and maintaining that loss. (more…)
New Agreement for Gastric Band Surgery – Patient Paid
01 year ago
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If you’re interested in Gastric Band Surgery, please goto our Banding site for detailed info. We’ve partnered with Victoria Surgery Clinic. To read the whole story, got to WL&S Support
Video – Roux-en-Y (RnY) Gastric By-pass
32 years ago
by Ron
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Video – Dr Amson performs Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric By-pass
Video – created and made available by Wayne Dupuis MultiMedia Services VIHA
Video – created and made available by Wayne Dupuis MultiMedia Services VIHA
WARNING – Explicit Medical Surgery Video
Video – Gastric Sleeve Bypass
22 years ago
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Video – Dr Amson performs Gastric Sleeve By-pass
Video – created and made available by Wayne Dupuis MultiMedia Services VIHA
Video – created and made available by Wayne Dupuis MultiMedia Services VIHA
WARNING – Explicit Medical Surgery Video
Pamphlet 1st Time or Pre-op Patients
12 years ago
by Ron
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The basics you need to know to prepare for your surgery.
Pouch Rules For Dummies
02 years ago
by Ron
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INTRODUCTION:
A common misunderstanding of gastric bypass surgery is that the pouch causes weight loss because it is so small, the patient eats less. Although that is true for the first six months, that is not how it works. Some doctors have assumed that poor weight loss in some patients is because they aren’t really trying to lose weight. The truth is it may be because they haven’t learned how to get the “satisfied” feeling of being full to last long enough.
How to Break a Weight Loss Plateau
02 years ago
by Ron
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How to Break a Weight Loss Plateau – (author unknown)
It’s inevitable. Anyone who has lost a large amount of weight (more than 10-15 pounds) has hit one or more weight loss plateaus. The weight loss plateau is a very annoying period of body adjustment where your body “catches up with itself” so to speak. I hit two or three of them when I lost my 38 pounds and I learned a lot from each of them. I mostly learned patience! (more…)
Long Term Weight Loss and Maintenance After Gastric Bypass
02 years ago
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Long term weight loss and maintenance after Gastric Bypass
This info is sort of a “user’s manual” for the stomach pouch created in the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. The guide is targeted to patients who underwent GBP more than 6 months previously, but the best results are achieved by patients who begin to live by these guidelines even before the procedure.
The first year after gastric bypass is usually very rewarding, but this time can also be confusing, frustrating and frightening. The function of the stomach pouch “tool” changes almost continuously over the first six months, and continues to change periodically over the year or so. Just when the patient feels they have begun to understand the stomach pouch/tool and how to use it, things change all over again. (more…)
100 Reasons To Exercise
12 years ago
by Ron
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A recent survey showed that people could find more reasons NOT to exercise, quicker than they could find reasons TO exercise. Now you have NO excuses! (more…)
Understanding Your Pouch
02 years ago
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Understanding the function of the small gastric pouch
After surgery, it will be your responsibility for the lifestyle changes necessary to make the small gastric pouch function properly. It is thought that the pouch walls stretch with the eating of a small meal, or even the drinking of fluid. The meal volume will increase over the months. Stabilization occurs at two years, with a mean pouch size of six ounces, with a wide range of three to ten ounces. The pouch appears to not get larger after the second year. Success in weight loss and maintenance depends not only on having a small gastric pouch but even more so on how the patient makes the required lifestyle changes, uses their “pouch/tool”. and adequately exercises. (more…)