Weight Loss Institute

What is Weight Loss Surgery? 

Along your journey to a healthier and more active lifestyle, there are changes that need to be made. Our program is designed to identify some of those changes and help you make them! The first step in deciding whether weight loss surgery is right for you is to educate yourself with a thorough understanding of the risks and benefits of the surgical procedure. Talking to your primary care physician, physician specialist or family physician is a good next step.

Choosing Surgery

Weight loss surgery is major surgery. Although most patients enjoy an improvement in obesity-related health conditions after the successful results of weight loss surgery, these results should not be the overriding motivation for having the procedure.

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Am I A Candidate for Weight Loss Surgery?

If you answer "Yes" to any of the following questions, weight loss surgery might be the right answer for you at this time"

Do you have a BMI of 35 or more plus an obesity-related health problem (diabetes, high blood pressure, or sleep apnea, etc.)?

Do you have a BMI of 40 or more?

Does your weight cause physical problems that interfere with family or work-related activities?

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Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAP-Band®)

The LAP-BAND® System is an adjustable silicone gastric band designed to help you lose excess body weight, improve weight-related health conditions and enhance quality of life. It reduces the stomach capacity and restricts the amount of food that can be consumed at one time.

The LAP-BAND® System procedure does not require stomach cutting and stapling or gastrointestinal re-routing to bypass normal digestion. The LAP-BAND® System was the first adjustable and reversible weight-loss surgery available in the United States and approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Gastric bypass surgery makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the stomach and small intestine. You will feel full more quickly than when your stomach was its original size, which reduces the amount of food you eat and thus the calories consumed. Gastric Bypass also causes malabsorption which causes your body to not absorb all of the calories that you take in.

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The Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy procedure generates weight loss by restricting the amount of food (and therefore calories) that can be eaten by removing a portion of the stomach without bypassing the intestines or causing any gastrointestinal malabsorption.

The stomach that remains is shaped like a very slim banana and measures from one to five ounces depending on the surgeon performing the procedure. The nerves to the stomach and the outlet valve remain intact with the idea of preserving the functions of the stomach while drastically reducing the volume.

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Life After Weight Loss Surgery 

To help patients achieve their goals and deal with the changes surgery and weight loss can bring, we offer follow-up care that includes support groups, dieticians and other forms of continuing education. Surgery is only a tool. Your ultimate success depends on strict adherence to the recommended dietary, exercise and lifestyle changes.

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This surgery utilizes both gastric reduction and intestinal malabsorption to achieve weight loss. The first part of the procedure is reducing the size of the stomach similar to a gastric sleeve procedureAfter the sleeve, the intestines are rerouted similar to a gastric bypass. The principle measured length is the common channel. This is the distance from where bile and food meet to the end of the intestines and determines the amount of absorption.