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amother

Yesterday at 12:43 pm

Please don't suggest OA or other diets. They didn't work and we're done with them. We are considering the sleeve for her, and she is open to any other ideas except shots. We want something that will be overseen by a doctor or surgeon from start to finish that will have patience explaining every part of it to her. I did the sleeve 12 years ago and it's an excellent tool for dieting. I am maintaining almost 100 lbs. down, but the last few years I *have* had to be more conscious of what I eat in order to keep the weight down. It's not a free-for-all and easy way out. She knows that.

What options are there for a 20-year-old that's desperate to lose weight? Lakewood area, if that makes any difference. Where would we start? She doesn't have a regular doctor as she aged out of her pediatrician and didn't need a PCP since then.

Where do we start? A gastroenterologist? I went to a seminar by a bariatric group but if that's not the option we're pursuing for her then I don't want to take her to one.

Any suggestions?

TIA!

amother

Holly ↓

Yesterday at 12:47 pm

You prefer surgery over shots?

If you don't want diet or shots then the only option is surgery.

Sleeve is the most successful.

amother

Crystal

Yesterday at 12:52 pm

Why doesn't she want the shots?

mfb

Yesterday at 12:53 pm

I know in Israel there are pills that are like the shots. Not sure if they are available in the us and how safe they are

Ima_Shelli

Yesterday at 12:54 pm

get her a personal trainer and have her start working out daily. Send her to a nutritionist. If she's committed it will be the start of a lifetime of healthy eating.

notshanarishona

Yesterday at 12:57 pm

I would always start with a pcp, making sure no medical reason for overweight. Once ruled out, then to weight loss doctor

amother

Tan

Yesterday at 1:38 pm

Get her an appointment at a bariatric center
I did that
They have different options besides the sleeve
But honestly I did the sleeve and do recommend it. Also doing shots now
Did sleeve 10 years ago

fig

Yesterday at 2:28 pm

Very very few people loose weight without surgery or shots. I’m sure she tried every diet and nutritionist. Just go for Mounjaro. Overweight and single is so painful.

amother

Peony ↓

Yesterday at 2:31 pm

Curious to know what her non-marital status has to do with anything.

amother

Razzmatazz

Yesterday at 2:32 pm

I did the sleeve and am pretty sure that's how I managed to get redt shidduchim and married 😑
I did put back on a lot of the weight and statistucally most people do, but bH my husband is fine with it.

amother

Phlox

Yesterday at 2:37 pm

I did phentermine its a pill but it has side effects for some people

amother

↑ Peony

Yesterday at 2:43 pm

fig wrote:

Very very few people loose weight without surgery or shots. I’m sure she tried every diet and nutritionist. Just go for Mounjaro. Overweight and single is so painful.

Your source? Because these options didn't exist when I was OP's dd's age and yet people still managed to reduce and keep it off. I personally know exactly one person who had surgery. Everyone else I know who lost weight and kept it off did it through diet and exercise on programs like Weight Watchers and its cousins, with or without a doctor's supervision. I'm doing it now myself, and have recently gotten myself off meds for hypertension and high cholesterol. I won't say it's easy, you have to exercise self-control, but you have to do that in any case. If you continue to eat as much as you like of whatever you like, the weight will either not budge at all, or it will come right back as soon as you relax your vigilance. You have to change your attitude to food and your habits for life. Surgery and shots or pills are nothing more than tools to help you get there, not a silver bullet cure.

amother

Orchid

Yesterday at 2:48 pm

Do the shots.

chocolate moose

Yesterday at 3:53 pm

WW is guaranteed to work if you follow the program. a Nutritionist can be helpful too

amother

Heather

Yesterday at 4:26 pm

I think you need to start with getting a PCP that you trust. She should get bloodwork done any case - I’m sure that a bariatric surgeon would require that. The PCP can check whether her blood pressure is bad or if she is prediabetic G-d forbid. Also if she has PCOS. It’s an alphabet soup mess! I myself am looking for a PCP just to give me a normalcy sanity check. Then she can go to an endocrinologist or an obesity medicine specialist. The beauty of the new development such as shots is that it really frees you from thinking that your behavior is the problem. Anyway, at that point she could decide on bariatric surgery. My question is - if most people are known to gain the weight back and then need to go on the shots, then why not skip the surgery? Is it so that you won’t need to tell shidduchim that she’s on the shots?

amother

↑ Holly

Yesterday at 4:34 pm

amother Peony wrote:

Curious to know what her non-marital status has to do with anything.

Because her weight is affecting her ability to get married.

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