Weight loss surgery should help overweight people learn new eating habits and sustain them. Often poor relationships with food aren’t addressed adequately and after a period of a year after the surgery. Those with poor food relationships can re-discover their poor relationship with food and regain at an alarming rate. That is some first hand experience I’ve seen.
Weight loss surgery should come with psychological support. Some of these patients grow colossal ego’s when they achieve ideal weight. We only need to look at Big Ben to slim Ben who is the worst case of narcissistic personality disorder that I have witnessed. I have little doubt that he is a gastric surgery patient. He flaunted his losses all over Instagram with a huge amount of ego. Now he has regained a lot of the weight he vanished into thin air without explaining to his followers, a cowardly fraud.
These people damage others who are trying to naturally lose weight, if my daughter and I rejoined slimming world, what chance do we have against someone with a gastric band fitted?
But once you realise calorie counting means you can still eat takeaway and chocolate and alcohol (just less, or different options), for me anyway it's by FAR the least miserable way to lose weight! 
