My aunt and cousin were trying to lose some weight for a couple of years, but kept seeing no progress. So about 8months ago they both engaged in a surgical process called Gastric Bypass. Gastric bypass is surgery that helps you lose weight by changing how your stomach and small intestine handle the food you eat. After the surgery, your stomach will be smaller. You will feel full with less food. This process is done to help people who are struggling with weight loss. Since after the surgery both of them have lost a substantial amount of weight.
I just want to say that I have no problem with people who decide to do through these procedures, but while it is good news to see/hear that they are losing weight, I can’t help but ask how far would you go just to look good? What ever happened to personal willpower? Why do we have to rely on all these different surgical processes to lose weight. I can understand if you have a thyroid condition, but if you do not have any condition, then I strongly suggest that you trust on your own self will and power. Losing weight is an experience, it is something that you should be proud to tell others about. No one ever said its going to be easy, but if you have a good diet plan and you make even just a little effort to workout, you will definitely drop some weight. If you have been trying for a while and it is not working, then you need to take a step back, try to do somethings differently and then be patient.
Unruly Bodies 
I respectfully strongly disagree. For many people, weight loss is about more than appearance, and the process of working up ‘enough willpower’ can be heartbreaking. I have been making an effort to diet and exercise for years now, and I still have to deal with folds of skin and odd ‘lumps’. Exercise and dieting are hard, especially for someone with any form of depression. I don’t believe it’s fair for someone to deal with self-loathing about their body just because they have trouble sticking to a diet plan. If it is important to someone to lose weight, opting for surgery is absolutely fair.
I respect your post and your opinion on the matter, but I agree with the above comment from lavenderflame42. Various other factors affect the overall results someone has with a diet and exercise plan. Also, I feel like a lot of doctors that perform these surgeries do not perform them on people under a specific weight. Some of the cases I’ve heard about, in which individuals underwent the surgery, were rather extreme cases where weight loss was necessary for their health and surgery is the best way to lose the weight.
On a personal note, my uncle was around 400 pounds when he underwent the surgery, and even though he can’t eat everything he used to be able to eat, I’ve never seen him more happy than he was after he lost the weight. And he wouldn’t have been able to get to where he is now without the surgery.
Losing weight via dieting is, for most of us, virtually impossible. Body size is not about willpower, and the conception that it is is part of the damage done when we see weight as a moral failing.