REALIZETM Gastric Band: Support to Help You Reach Your Goals
People suffering with severe obesity and its accompanying health problems now have another option: the REALIZETM Gastric Band.
The REALIZETM Gastric Band is an adjustable gastric band, and patients enjoy access to an array of online tools that connect them with their surgeon and support them in losing weight and keeping it off.
With the REALIZETM Gastric Band and the support of your surgeon, you can start losing weight, living your life, and reaching your goals.
How Does It Work?
In the REALIZETM Gastric Band procedure, a silicone band is surgically placed around the top of the stomach, creating a small pouch. The stomach pouch results in eating less food because you get full quickly on a small amount of food. In addition, the small opening created by the band slows the emptying of food, causing you to feel full longer.
Tubing is connected from the band to an access port located under the skin, and saline is added and removed to adjust the band’s tightness. Performed in the office, this “adjustment” changes the rate at which food passes through the band to the remainder of the stomach. This adjustability makes the REALIZETM Gastric Band customizable to each individual patient.
Like any surgery, REALIZETM Gastric Band surgery does involve risks, and complications can occur. The surgeon addresses risks and complications at the seminar patients attend prior to their first appointment and in patient consultations.
Click here to see animation of a REALIZETM Gastric Band placement
Online Tools – Realize mySuccess
To take full advantage of gastric banding surgery, individuals must make changes to what, how, and why they eat. That’s where the REALIZETM Band’s online tools come in. As a REALIZETM Gastric Band patient, you’ll have access to Realize mySuccess.
Click here to watch a video introduction to your online toolkit, Realize mySuccess.
Planning promotes success, and REALIZETM Band patients can use Realize mySuccess’s online planning tools that help them with planning meals, as well as with strategies to avoid emotional eating.
To maintain motivation, Realize mySuccess offers progress tools, including goal-setting help and a virtual model of the patient’s transformed body.
In addition, REALIZETM Gastric Band patients can access healthy recipes and an online food journal – a significant success component. And they can create their own fitness plan and track their progress.
You’ll have special tools pre-op and additional tools post-op. The goal of all of the Realize mySuccess tools is to support the lifestyle changes that lead to weight loss success and better health.
Want more detail about the pre-op and post-op Realize mySuccess tools?
Click here to watch a video with a more in-depth look at the pre-op tools.
Click here to watch a video with details about the Realize mySuccess post-op tools.
What are the statistics of Southwest Bariatric Surgeons for gastric banding?
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Italian |
Patterson study** |
Southwest Bariatric Surgeons |
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| Patients | 1893 | 406 | 1584 |
| Follow-up yr | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| Erosion, % | 1.11% (n=21) | 0.74% (n=3) | 0.25% (n=4) |
| Pulm. Embolism, % | Not available | 0.49% (n=2) | 0.06% (n=1) |
| "Slips", % | Not available | 8.13% (n=33) | 3.72% (n=59) |
**Patterson et al, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 3 (2007), 42-51
NOTE: The term "n=" refers to the actual number of incidents.
Start Reaching for Your Goals Today
The quickest way to start your weight loss journey with Southwest Bariatric Surgeons is to attend one of our free educational seminars.
At a seminar, you’ll learn about the REALIZETM Gastric Band and other weight loss surgery procedures, find out about life after surgery, and have the opportunity to ask a surgeon your questions. You’ll learn about the benefits of surgery as well as the risks and possible complications. You’ll also acquire the forms necessary to start the process toward surgery and your new life.
To make it easy for you, we offer multiple seminars a month throughout Central Texas, as well as online.
Click here to find a convenient seminar and register.
Click here to attend the seminar online. Don’t let 2010 be another year when you wish you would have lost weight.
Start reaching for your goals today!