So I’m middle aged, have a long history of regaining what I lost and more. I don’t want this to continue, both of my parents were in better shape at this age than I am. What do I do?  Naturally, I checked out weight loss surgery. I had tried everything else but the real reason [...]

From birth to 10 years of age, I had a terrible struggle with my weight. My birth weight was normal but problems with food and other allergies made it difficult for me to thrive. Through my childhood, I was significantly underweight. At age 7 a tonsillectomy made a great improvement in my eating habits. I [...]

Of all bariatric surgeries, the laparoscopic band is the least invasive. It requires one to three cuts in the abdominal area. Then gas is blown into the surgical area. The surgery is performed with the use of tiny instruments. Compared to other weight loss surgeries it poses fewer risks to the patient. It is completely [...]

Weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery is the surgical alteration of the stomach or digestive system so that the ability to over eat is reduced. The current buzz word is satiety or the feeling of being satisfied but not stuffed. Most overweight people are, for reasons that are not understood, unable to determine when they [...]

I have struggled to lose weight since my teens. As a teenager, I had unrealistic expectations of what I should look like. I’m short with large hip bones. Even starvation diets could not get my weight down to a skinny level. I kept my weight under 120, but basically felt I was a failure because [...]