Weight Loss

A Practical Approach to Permanent Weight Loss

If you are considering weight loss surgery as a means of achieving permanent weight loss, we believe this site will provide you with the information you need.

If you’re like most “overweight” people, you’ve tried both natural and medically assisted diets with only limited success. Like most dieters, you have probably also regained most, if not all, of the weight you lost by dieting (called the “Yo-Yo syndrome”). Further, you are likely to have weight related health problems and possibly suffer from low self-esteem due to your inability to reach and maintain a healthy weight.

What many who suffer from obesity don’t realize is that they are probably struggling to overcome heredity. Over the last few decades the medical community has generally come to agree that obesity (the medical term for being seriously overweight) is likely a genetic disorder, which is often only controllable through surgical intervention. This means that your genetic makeup causes you to crave food constantly and causes your body to store a high percentage of the food you eat as fat. A sometimes-deadly combination, which makes it virtually impossible to achieve permanent weight loss through dieting alone.

Although weight loss surgery may be your only practical alternative, it is, nevertheless, a life-changing procedure. The decision to proceed should only be made once you are thoroughly familiar with its advantages and disadvantages. You should also discuss your decision with your family and personal physician.

This web site is intended to provide you with the information you need to make an informed decision regarding surgery in order to achieve permanent weight loss. If you maintain a personal web site related to weight loss, morbid obesity or lapband surgery, please feel free to link to any page or quote from any text information published herein. We do, however, ask that you include a “credit” with any direct quotes