Your stomach is divided into two pouches, an upper pouch, and lower pouch. The lower portion of your small intestine is fused to the smaller upper pouch.  The creation of a smaller stomach pouch, which holds less than a cup of food, will help you get fuller quicker and feel fuller longer, and you will ultimately lose weight faster. By surgically resecting the small, upper pouch to the lower portion of your bowels, food will not be completely broken down, absorbed, or processed within your system prior to exiting your body.