For more information regarding comprehensive bariatric care visit our health care partner The Center For Weight Loss
Surgery at Health One North Suburban Medical Center.
We understand the numerous struggles, trials, and failures you have endured in traditional diet and exercise regimens
to control your weight and/or obesity related health issues. But there is HOPE! This hope is weight loss (bariatric)
surgery. As you learn and discover more about weight loss surgery you will feel bombarded with vast amounts of
information. Our goal at the Center of Surgical Specialists, P.C. is to partner with you in this journey and process.
Bariatric surgery is a tool; it is not the solution! Furthermore, this tool may not be for every prospective candidate. But as we explore your options we are going to find out if this "tool" can work for you and also answer the question "can you work with this 'tool'?"
Our program, in partnership with Health One North Suburban's Center for Weight Loss Surgery, provides an extensive pre-surgical educational program, multi-disciplinary nutritional-psychological-exercise team, dynamic support group, and future reconstructive/cosmetic surgery for the massive-weight-loss patient. Simply, our goal is to join you on your life – long journey and share every step along the way with you.
Bariatric surgery is a tool; it is not the solution! Furthermore, this tool may not be for every prospective candidate. But as we explore your options we are going to find out if this "tool" can work for you and also answer the question "can you work with this 'tool'?"
Our program, in partnership with Health One North Suburban's Center for Weight Loss Surgery, provides an extensive pre-surgical educational program, multi-disciplinary nutritional-psychological-exercise team, dynamic support group, and future reconstructive/cosmetic surgery for the massive-weight-loss patient. Simply, our goal is to join you on your life – long journey and share every step along the way with you.
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Almost every day, you see reports in the media about an amazing new diet or some new pill for weight loss. Even so,
the number of people with a serious weight problem keeps going up. If you are one of those people, you probably
already know that weighing more than you should is bad for your health.
If you are severely obese, you have a higher risk for problems such as heart disease and diabetes. Plus, weighing more
than you should can affect the way you feel about yourself. It can give you a negative self-image. It also can cause
you to become socially isolated.
The best remedy for being overweight is to exercise more while you eat less and eat sensibly. With this approach, you can use up more calories than you take in and lose weight. A diet can help people lose weight, and some people can have success with drugs that make them feel less hungry. But over the long term, these methods don’t work for everyone. Some people quickly regain the weight they lose on a diet. Some even end up weighing more. Drugs that make you feel less hungry do not usually produce weight loss that lasts.
If you’ve tried these methods and still have a problem with excess weight, you may want to consider surgery. Surgery can help some people lose weight and keep it off.
Change Comes Through Awareness of the Choices You Make
The awareness of lifestyle compels you to identify practices that will move you toward the health and fitness outcomes you desire.
Weight loss surgery is only a tool. When utilized correctly, it is an effective method of losing weight and keeping it off. Most patients are surprised to discover that even after weight loss surgery, they have to be aware of what they are eating. They must also engage in exercise to keep the weight off.
Those individuals who are the most successful in losing their weight and keeping it off are those patients who adopt a new lifestyle of awareness. These individuals measure and track what they eat and drink. They weigh themselves weekly and engage in exercise daily. By implementing a new lifestyle of awareness, you achieve your dream of health and an enriched quality of life.
The best remedy for being overweight is to exercise more while you eat less and eat sensibly. With this approach, you can use up more calories than you take in and lose weight. A diet can help people lose weight, and some people can have success with drugs that make them feel less hungry. But over the long term, these methods don’t work for everyone. Some people quickly regain the weight they lose on a diet. Some even end up weighing more. Drugs that make you feel less hungry do not usually produce weight loss that lasts.
If you’ve tried these methods and still have a problem with excess weight, you may want to consider surgery. Surgery can help some people lose weight and keep it off.
Change Comes Through Awareness of the Choices You Make
The awareness of lifestyle compels you to identify practices that will move you toward the health and fitness outcomes you desire.
Weight loss surgery is only a tool. When utilized correctly, it is an effective method of losing weight and keeping it off. Most patients are surprised to discover that even after weight loss surgery, they have to be aware of what they are eating. They must also engage in exercise to keep the weight off.
Those individuals who are the most successful in losing their weight and keeping it off are those patients who adopt a new lifestyle of awareness. These individuals measure and track what they eat and drink. They weigh themselves weekly and engage in exercise daily. By implementing a new lifestyle of awareness, you achieve your dream of health and an enriched quality of life.
