When this procedure is complete you realize that the total being removed is more than 85% of the stomach and how they do it is by stapling and dividing it vertically. The stomach stays connected to the intestines while in a narrow tube or sleeve. As this is all happening the procedure that was made permanently reduces the size of the stomach causing you to lose weight .In contrast to gastric banding, gastric bypass is a permanent reduction in the size of the stomach. Finally my favorite and most common type of weight loss surgery is Gastric bypass. So what they do for this one is get the full stomach and create it to an egg-sized pouch that is connected to the intestine in a location that bypasses about 2 feet of normal intestine. The amount
