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The following is part three of my personal account of Gastic Bypass surgery. This will cover your long term diet, possible side effects and complications and a few words of advice for anyone considering the procedure. My wife took a picture of me a couple days ago just for this article. It is located at the bottom. No cheating and scrolling ahead.

When I was a teenager, I snored like a chainsaw. I know this because one time my stepdad came from another room in the middle of the night to wake me up and tell me that my snoring woke him up. I wasn’t overweight, because I didn’t start putting on the pounds until I had gotten past high school. I’m telling you this because it was very weird that I stopped snoring about a month after the surgery. Continue reading →

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a comprehensive report of cosmetic surgery trends through 2010. With all the Real Housewives shows being so successful it’s not surprising that boob jobs are up 40% since 2000. But the really amazing increase is in a procedure called a “lower body lift“, up an astounding 4,550% since 2000. A lower body lift will cost you an average of $7,247. This is likely because the procedures that make up a lower body lift were all sold separately before but have now been conveniently bundled in recent years. Those procedures are a tummy tuck, thigh lift and butt lift.

One of the big losers is the hair transplant down 57% since 2000. Hair styles for men of diminished follicle fortitude has been the close cut or shaved head freeing them from having really terrible plugs that don’t look natural no matter what those late night TV commercials say. Collagen is also down (73%) now that people have seen the light on fish lips, or new materials come on the market. While boob jobs are almost universally popular they’re actually down 30% among women 55 and over.

Data is here. Source NYT.

Fat to Fit: My Guide to Gastric Bypass (Part 3)

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