OTOH, he's certainly rich enough now to hire a team of personal trainers, chefs, and dieticians to be with him 24/7.

(My first reaction to his appearance now is that he's looking a whole lot YOUNGER than he did, and is verging on scruffy handsome.)

I have to point out that gastric bypasses, even on extremely heavy people are still quite dangerous and not necessarily better than being fat.

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I posted the following in Boxed Set in error, and since hitting 'post', I've seen a few more photos of PJ that don't look quite as sunken as I thought he did in that video, but still...

I immediately thought gastric bypass + naturally stressed out guy = Qtip impression.

He certainly could, I'm assuming, afford a health staff, but if he's got one, they might need to be replaced.

Various reports have him saying that replacing burgers with 'yogurt and muesli' caused him to lose 70 lbs in 10 months.

I just started on a plan to lose 20 lbs in the next 8 months. At his rate, I should be finished by Monday. Phew!

replacing burgers with 'yogurt and muesli'

Ah, Colon Blow.

I assumed gastric bypass, back when I first saw him with the weight off. He'd lost so much, so fast, and looked very much like my coworker who had the stomach stapling.

70 pounds in ten months = 7 pounds a month = 1.6+ pounds per week. Which is not a dangerously fast speed at which to lose weight. Anything up to 2 pounds a week over the long term is fine. (With much larger losses in the first two months or so fine if you are lucky enough for that to happen, and occassional infrequent higher losses after than fine if not too frequent.)

I have to point out that gastric bypasses, even on extremely heavy people are still quite dangerous and not necessarily better than being fat.

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I'm hesitant to foment a conversation about the benefits or drawbacks of gbs in Movies, but I can say I've seen some pretty bad results in one of my clients. As much or more misery than the original issues.

Sometimes it's great, from what I understand, but in this case, not so much. Then, of course, there is the fellow from the Biggest Loser last season who gained hundreds of pounds back despite TWO surgeries.

It seems to me like there would be some concern that the bypass continues reducing the amount of nutrients you get even after you've burned up most of the excess fat in your body. Like, at some point aren't you going to have to eat hundreds or thousands of extra calories daily to avoid malnutrition?

Like, at some point aren't you going to have to eat hundreds or thousands of extra calories daily to avoid malnutrition?

That is a big problem that's coming to light now that (1) more and more people are undergoing weight-loss surgery, and (2) there's more long-term data to study now that WLS isn't new (i.e., a lot of people are 5+ years post-op).

I'm just wondering at GBS if the goal is 1.6 pounds a week. Cause that really there are many safe ways to get the weight loss. OK, hard to stick to and I have not managed over the long term, but for the cost of that surgery....

But yeah, as far as I know GBS is more dangerous than being overweight.