West Virginia Weight Loss is an online support site for those who have had gastric bypass surgery (or other weight loss surgery) as well as those who are considering having some sort of weight loss surgery. Anyone planning to have weight loss surgery needs to research and learn about the surgery as well as the changes necessary in your lifestyle after surgery. Weight loss surgery is not a fix-it for obesity. It is merely a tool that allows the individual to regain control of their own body and health and start to lose weight and overcome other coexisting illnesses such as hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes (both type 1 and type 2), high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and other illnesses caused or aggravated by obesity. It is the goal of this site to present information helpful in better understanding the way the surgery works, how you can use the tool that surgery gives you, and how you must adapt your new lifestyle in order to be successful in losing excess weight and relieving coexisting illnesses.

This YahooGroup will also serve as a conversation group for the Central WV WLS Support Group.