Joined: 11 Nov 2011 Gender: Female Posts: 65,113 Location: UK
11 Feb 2024, 1:26 pm
Thinking about that new weight loss thing that has become available in the UK.
I don't get it. If it's like a balloon of water in your stomach that makes you feel full up so you eat less; wouldn't it work just the same if you drank a load of water before eating so that your stomach feels more full up that way
Joined: 12 Feb 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 113,782 Location: the island of defective toy santas
11 Feb 2024, 2:16 pm
problem is that water goes through the tummy like crap through a goose, too quick to register as satiety. the lap band is designed to shrink the stomach so it get fuller quicker and longer so you don't have to guzzle water to suppress hunger, ordinary food will do.
Joined: 8 Jun 2011 Age: 35 Gender: Male Posts: 15,793 Location: United Kingdom
11 Feb 2024, 2:26 pm
babybird wrote:
Thinking about that new weight loss thing that has become available in the UK.
I don't get it. If it's like a balloon of water in your stomach that makes you feel full up so you eat less; wouldn't it work just the same if you drank a load of water before eating so that your stomach feels more full up that way
Do you mean the weight loss injections that have recently started to become available?
Joined: 11 Nov 2011 Gender: Female Posts: 65,113 Location: UK
11 Feb 2024, 2:30 pm
No it's this thing and you swallow it on a tube and then it gets filled with water via a tube and then it just stays in your stomach for 4 months and then after that it just dissolves
Joined: 8 Jun 2011 Age: 35 Gender: Male Posts: 15,793 Location: United Kingdom
11 Feb 2024, 5:31 pm
babybird wrote:
No it's this thing and you swallow it on a tube and then it gets filled with water via a tube and then it just stays in your stomach for 4 months and then after that it just dissolves