Facts or Fiction

Fact:
Many people are wrong about this. If you are 20 kg or more overweight, you might already qualify. Read about the criteria for weightloss surgery here.

Fact:
Even though you might feel healthy, overweight can do much harm. Damage to your body will occur unnoticed. Your risk of getting a disease will rise and your life expectancy is shorter.

Fact:
It is true that the portions you can eat are smaller. But in general you can eat everything. Your sensation for hunger will be lower and you will feel satisfied sooner. That is why you will eat less.

Fact:
Nowadays the risks of the procedure are very low because of the lengthy experience of the surgeons. The risk is comparable to a gall bladder excision. About 2% of people have to deal with a serious complication. One in a thousand people decease after surgery related complications.

Fact:
This is untrue for most people. On average you will lose more than 80% over your overweight. 15-20% of people will regain some of the lost weight, but almost never up to the previous levels.

Fact:
Unfortunately this is not true. Doing a diet and sporting will help, but in almost all cases this is temporary. Less than 5% of people manage to keep this up for the rest of their lives. Besides, the effect is almost always far less than the result of surgery.

Fact
Weightloss surgery is reimbursed out of the basic package of your health insurance. This means you only pay the 'own risk' part.

Fact:
90% of people go home the day after the procedure. This means you will only be in the clinic for 1 night.