Gastric bypass surgery may seem like an extreme measure, but it’s quickly becoming more widely accepted as a weight loss method.

If you are seriously overweight or obese you have most likely considered undergoing gastric bypass surgery to help you manage your weight and health. Although there are other options besides gastric bypass surgery to help you in this endeavor, this procedure appears to be frighteningly popular. Ever since celebrities such as Carney Wilson have undergone the procedure, more and more people have turned on to the idea of having gastric bypass surgery.

Gastric bypass surgery is a surgical procedure in which a portion of the stomach is closed off. The stomach is rerouted to the intestinal system and the rest of your stomach is stapled off but remains inside you. Therefore, after gastric bypass surgery food bypasses a part of the stomach. You eat less because your stomach gets fuller quicker. You eat less and consume less weight producing calories.