Mangalore: 35-year-old Sunil D'Mello loses 92 kg through surgery
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Feb 22: A person, who was finding it impossible to manage his ever-increasing body weight, approached the doctors of Kasturba Medical College Hospital in the city. The doctors successfully performed bariatric bypass surgery on him, and he has lost 92 kg weight.
Sunil D’Mello, the beneficiary of this surgery, has now been able to live normally like most of his peers.
D’Mello (35) weighed 181 kg till two years back. Because of excessive weight, his health had deteriorated. D’Mello had been facing the problem of accumulation of body fat and increasing weight since childhood. With the reduction of weight consequent to surgery, D’Mello now weighs a far healthier 89 kg.
The issue of overweight has haunted him since his childhood. Sunil weighed 102 kg when he was 15. In 2005, he started suffering from acute backache. He approached a popular center which helps in weight reduction and over the course of six months managed to lose 30 kg but unfortunately he gained back 45 kg within the period of next three months. He then tried Naturopathy and lost about 15 kg which he regained once more within 2 months. He also followed dietary advices given online for reduction of weight, but none of them helped, stated a media release.
"My decision changed soon after my son was born. In May 2010, I realized that it was very hard to play with my little son who had just learned to crawl. This motivated me with fresh imperatives to lose weight and I approached the doctors from the general surgery department at KMC Hospital, Mangalore," Sunil was quoted in the media release.
He came to KMC Hospital in 2011, and the above procedure was conducted on June 30. After keeping him under observation in the hospital for three days, he was discharged, with advice for making food habit changes and exercise regimen to be followed. The media release from the hospital said that Sunil has undergone a sea change in his health condition with reduced weight, and he has now been able to lead normal life.