It may sound absurd, why should you carry additional weight for no reason and stress your body. But are you aware that you are carrying a lot of weight and stressing your body and bones everyday for years together without much thought.

Presently in India there are more overweight malnourished people than than underweight malnourished people. In fact due to lifestyle changes, obesity is causing more medical issues than any other disease. For example obesity causes diabetes which causes kidney failure, India has become the diabetes capital of the world.

Fortunately there is hope.

Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala is an obesity surgeon, expert in Laproscopy and minimal invasive surgery, says that if we are a little overweight, we need to take care of our food habits and lifestyle with a little exercise and keep our weight under control and live a healthy life. However if we are obese and heavily overweight and dieting does not work, then a minimal invasive bariatric surgery can be done and you can walk back home in just a day or two and lose a lot of weight in about three months or so.
 

Ten signs you need to consider weight loss surgery
Dr Aparna Govil Bhasker shares what her list of 10 signs when you need to consider weight loss surgery

#1 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

Normal weighing scales are not able to measure your weight.

Your weight is 25 Kg above your ideal body weight or BMI more than 35 Kg/m².

#2 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You have a BMI of more than 32.5 Kg/m² and the recent blood tests reveal high blood sugars or if you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

#3 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You don’t fit into clothes available in normal stores and start scouting for “plus size” stores.

#4 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You need to think twice about travelling by air as you need to book two seats for yourself and pay double the fare.

#5 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

Walking a few steps has started making you feel breathless and even going to the washroom is a task.

#6 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You are scared to sit on a normal chair fearing that it may break due to your weight.

#7 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You are above 60 years old and the orthopedic surgeon has refused a total knee replacement till you lose weight.

#8 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You snore like a bear and the physician has advised you to use a machine (bi-pap) to help you to sleep.

#9 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You are obese with elephant legs and there are repeated episodes of cellulitis in your legs.

#10 Sign to consider weight loss surgery:

You have had clotting in your leg veins (venous thrombo-embolism) and have been put on blood thinners.

Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala is an obesity surgeon in India.He is also a laparoscopic expert and the founder of the Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery (Centre for Obesity and Diabetes Surgery) – a weight loss and weight management centre located in Mumbai. He is the ‘Chairman, Dept. of Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery’ at Saifee hospital. He was awarded the first international centre of excellence designation by the US based SRC (Surgical Review Corporation).

Source : Lokesh Shastri