I think there is confusion about how and when the stomach releases this so called hormone after someone looses lots of weight , causing the body to regain the weight lost.

When I went on the protein formular, having only one meal a day, I lost fat very well. after reaching the desired weight, I went back to eating food and not very much of it, but as slowly as I lost that is how I gained it back{2 1/2 lbs per week.}

Was that the result of a hormone?

In the Australian operation, I saw a picture dipicting what they did with a laparoscope inserted thru a small incision of the abdomen and sectioned off only the top of a woman's stomach with a small band that could be tightened. The band works by creating a small pouch at the top of the stomach and fills very quickly and makes it impossible to eat large amounts of food. The food passes through the pouch into the lower part of the stomach and intestines, creating a lasting feeling of fullness, even after eating a tiny meal.

So in this operation nothing is removed. It is called gastric banding.

These women were told that they now had to chew very throughly inorder to prevent complictions, one of which is the sliping of the band. {it looked very much like a band around the bottom of a balloon} So evidently everything is still intact but working with small amounts of food.

So if the idea of the gehrlen hormone is true, there would be nothing to prevent it from being released, even if slowly and then what?

What gets me about these operations is, that it is starvation. Starvation means that you are not taking in suffcient nutrition to maintain your weight.
What happens to your bones, muscles?

Why call the Atkins diet dangerous then, when people are feeding themselves real food, real butter, real chicken, real eggs and cheese all wholesome body building food!!!!

Somehwere on these pages, I found a consultant answering questions about diets and everything was pooh poohed, Atkins first , Sugarbusters second, and low carbers last. What was approved by this specialist, was slim fast diet drink, and Weight Watchers was called #1.

I guess everyone has to wait and see what happens to these people after one or two years!
Perhaps after the weight is lost they remove or release the band so they become normal again?