One of those popular diet plans that promotes itself as something it’s not is the lap band surgery.  They bash on the gastric bypass surgery, which is appropriate considering all the complications, side effects, serious psychological side effects, etc.  But then they pretend to ultimately be different.  They’re not different.  Yes, they have a band that they tie around it, and in general terms it can be adjusted to your needs.  But that takes more processes, and frankly speaking, it comes with the same serious psychological issues. 

 The psychological issues are related to the extreme  decrease in food intake and the inability to really eat like you used to in order to comfort yourself or otherwise when you weren’t actually hungry.  The throwing up is not wise, and some people will still continue to eat despite throwing up until they ultimately break the band, wasting a whole lot of money and requiring a removal unlike the gastric bypass surgery that will take even more money. 

This being said, it is not a magical solution.  It takes extremely careful measuring, and if you don’t, well you will suffer vitamin deficiencies as you may anyway from decreased absorption of nutrients.  All in all, lapband is just like gastric bypass.  They just put it under a different name.