If dieting, exercise, or intermittent fasting like this () doesn’t help you lose weight, what other options are out there?
At 212kg and with a BMI of 70, Vasoo had lost his job, developed chronic asthma and couldn’t even play with his young children without getting breathless. He thought he would be this way forever until Dr Tan Chun Hai, a bariatric and metabolic surgeon at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, helped him embark on his weight loss journey.
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Obesity is a medical condition with serious consequences to your health – increasing your risk of getting Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure (hypertension), and shortening your life span.
While dietary management and physical therapy are enough to help some people lose weight, bariatric surgery has proven to be an effective treatment for patients who are morbidly or severely obese.
In recent years, with “keyhole” or minimally invasive surgery, bariatric surgery has become much less invasive than the conventional surgery.
In Singapore, individuals with a BMI greater than 32.5 are advised to consider surgery when all other treatment options have been unsuccessful.
Surgeries like the sleeve gastrectomy that Vasoo went through are widely available at public hospitals like Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, where the procedures are subsidised for some patients and costs can be paid with Medisave and Medishield.
God bless you, Vasoo! Good luck for your weight loss! You can do it!
Well done bro keep up the good work!
well done, Vasoo – keep working on your healthy lifestyle change and here’s wishing you the best for u and your kids 🙂 you can do it!
so cool ☺,i hope his healthy diet journey will continue forever and he can reach his target
Nothing is impossible if you put your heart and mind into it!
I’m surprised he’s still functioning and alive at that weight. I have a classmate who already expired at lower bmi, so Vasoo has some kind of advantage for survival
Wish him a healthier and long life!
I am proud to be his friend.
Vasoo….u will get thru this n alot more with wonderful family n good friends around you.
God Bless you and let the happier times continue in life.
He’s better than a lot of people because at least he’s willing to change and put some work on to achieve his goal
Good for him. I hope he’s doing well now.
The doctors did excellent work, and also good job to Vasoo for being willing to change.
He has good motivation to be there for his family which makes him work to getting better. Just wanting to ‘be cute’ wont be enough