1.   Add it all up and gastric bypass patients generally lose two-thirds of their excess weight within a year or two of surgery.

2.   Carnie talked to doctors, read up on the latest procedures and decided to have a gastric bypass.

3.   For the very heaviest people, particularly those who eat compulsively, some surgeons recommend operations more extreme than the gastric bypass.

4.   Gastric bypass seems to work in large part by enforcing a strict low-calorie diet.

5.   In the most common gastric bypass, the surgeon uses staples or bands to create a small stomach pouch.

6.   It is a far less invasive procedure compared with the older gastric bypass operation, the gold standard in obesity surgery for years.

7.   Like gastric bypass, the lap band is considered a last-ditch option by Kelly.

8.   Many patients say that the enforced restriction on eating is critical to the success of gastric bypass.

9.   Most recently, the Fobi gastric bypass operation, a radical procedure that drastically reduces the amount of food a person can eat.

10.   Other than his largesse, Bovino had no other serious health problems, so Liem said he was a good candidate for a gastric bypass.