After years of losing weight and gaining it back, it’s not unusual to blame yourself. However, many healthcare professionals would argue otherwise: The patients were not failures; the weight loss treatments failed them. It’s important to understand what morbid obesity is and how surgery transforms health.

Just like many of the bariatric surgery patients featured in Real Patients’ Stories, you might think that surgery won’t work for you. It’s a common concern.

Bariatric surgery has a history of helping patients effectively transform their health. Bariatric surgery restricts the amount of food patients can eat and, depending on the bariatric procedure, the number of calories and nutrients the body can absorb.

As a tool, bariatric surgery has impressive long-term weight loss results and, in many cases, has resolved or improved co-morbid conditions.

For more assistance, find a bariatric surgeon and program using the Surgeon Locator.