Do you remember Carol Poe who went through a brain surgery so that she can lose weight last year? Below is her latest news:

For Carol Poe, obesity is the most painful problem in the world. She has tried everything to lose weight: from dieting to bariatric surgery, without success. Tired of being morbidly overweight, Poe volunteered for the most radical treatment ever devised for obesity — brain surgery.

In March 2009, she became the second person in the United States to undergo deep brain stimulation, or DBS, for weight loss. In this experimental treatment, electricity is introduced to specific parts of the brain believed to control particular behaviors, in Poe’s case, feelings of hunger and satisfaction.

Doctors inserted needles into “the part of my brain that controls the food,” said Poe, 62, before her surgery last year. Doctors then threaded wires under her scalp, down each side of her clavicle, to a battery pack. Since the surgery, doctors have been experimenting with sending electrical voltages to her brain, attempting to find a setting that will help her lose weight. At 5 feet 4 inches, Poe, a married mother of two, said that at her heaviest she weighed about 490 pounds. When she underwent the surgery, she weighed 285 pounds.

In an exclusive report, Nightline was with Poe eighteen months ago when she underwent the procedure. Did it work? And is deep brain stimulation the answer to the obesity epidemic? Watch this video

Personally, I won’t have the courage to go for a brain surgery in order to lose weight. To me, the important thing is whether I am determined to lose those excess weight regardless how hard it is. Then, I start to investigate what food or activities will cause me to put on weight. One of the common problems that we ladies face is snacking all day. If you cut that down, you will notice that you start to drop a couple of pounds. If not, you can follow a diet plan dilligently to lose weight. Don’t sit there, start moving.

[Source: ABCNews]

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