Bariatric Surgery Quotes

I went and got a Lap-Band put in and the weight just started falling off. It was like someone took a backpack full of rocks off of you.

Losing weight, even with the help of the operation I had, remains the hardest thing I have ever done - and the thing I am most proud of.

The lap-band surgery has been tremendous.

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.

By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds.

I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

I initially became a trainer in 2002 to help people shape their bodies, to help them look the way they wanted to look. This would reflect the way I was living. I was focusing on the exterior. Then in 2003/4, I had a paradigm shift. I started a business for bariatric patients, pre- and post-gastric bypass.

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me.

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.