In another surgery, the stomach is attached to the middle of the small intestine. This bypasses a large part of the small intestine and reducing the amount of calories and nutrients absorbed into the body. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) involves stapling the stomach to create a small pouch. The smaller stomach is attached directly to the middle of the small intestine. This allows food to bypass much of the stomach and the first section of the small intestine. It limits the amount of food that you can eat and reduces the amount of calories and nutrients that are absorbed into the body. Previous.
I've seen male competitors eat fewer than 1,800 calories trying to reduce their body fat. This is not the way to get shredded. If you cut your calories this much, you will end up losing significant lean muscle mass and severely damaging your metabolism.
You know you need to cut calories to lose weight (duh), but dropping pounds usually means not just losing fat, but losing metabolically valuable muscle too. (Muscle torches calories, so the less muscle you have, the harder it is to lose weight, often resulting in a weight-loss plateau.) But the secret to both losing weight and boosting your ...