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Parenting After Gastric Bypass Surgery
When looking at this or any other cosmetic procedure, we recommend that you consult a qualified provider with significant experience. Gastric bypass surgery is shown to be a simple low risk procedure with excellent outcomes. The surgery is about helping patients lose the weight that often brings on diseases.As parents who've had gastric bypass surgery we face many challenges bringing up a family. Perhaps an unexpected challenge is when a child develops an eating disorder that can be exacerbated by the parents dieting habits. It turns out as our children observe us diet and fail (repeatedly) before having gastric bypass surgery, then they watch us lose weight in an almost obsessive excitement after weight loss surgery (WLS), some panic and vow "this will not occur to me." A descent into an eating disorder may follow.
According to AnorexiaBulimaHelp "Dieting or restriction of certain foods, or excessive dieting from parents" is a contributing factor in adolescent and pre-teen eating disorders. In addition "The appearance obsessed society a lot of people live in can contribute to eating disorders ... When in conjunction with a low self-esteem, feelings of depression or anxiety or isolation, the effects can be devastating. Eating disorders commonly erupt as a coping mechanism, as a way for people to feel more "normal" and in control in a society that isn't really normal to begin with."
Wow. Are you concerned? Growing up I watched my mom work her way up and down the scale many times. No need to list the diets she tried: we all tried them. I think I learned from her that diet equals loser. It seems like each time she'd get to the benchmark; "this is the lowest weight I've been since having my first child" suddenly her weight loss would stop and back up the scale she'd climb at a rapid rate. She is morbidly overweight today and no longer attempts dieting. Who can blame her?
Did she know that was the lesson she was teaching me? That eventually I'd "diet" myself into morbid obesity? I don't think so, and I don't fault her. She didn't know any better.
We know better today. It is our stewardship to our children to do the best we will to protect them, raise them healthy, and teach them healthy habits of nutrition and exercise. We owe it to our children to keep them off the operating table and out of eating disorder treatment centers.
But how to do that? By example and by being informed.
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