Lap Band Doctors Advice

Emotional eating for relief, but eating is causing stress.

If I had a nickel…… … for everytime I heard someone say, “I’m a stress eater.” Here’s a news flash, I think every human alive is an emotional eater and more likely to eat when they are facing stress. I found this checklist on the internet regarding emotional eating: Do you reward yourself [...]

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How much fill is in your LapBand? What size shoe does your friend wear?

Every day in clinic we always get asked by one or more patients, “How much fill do I have?” Who cares?! I find it curious that people always ask “What’s my fill? How much do I have?” Then they rush home and put their fill volume on their ticker on lapbandtalk.com or obesityhelp.com and [...]

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Tighten loose skin after weight loss with cosmetic surgery

We had an earlier post titled Loose skin after LapBand and weight loss Surgery. In that post I talked all about things such as smoking, exercise, multivitamins, and sun exposure. As both a cosmetic and weight loss surgeon, I’ve seen many of my own patients for cosmetic procedures, as well as people [...]

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Lap Band restart

Are you “off your lap band diet”? Are you outside of the box? Do you eat things that you know you should not have? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it is time for a lapband “restart”. You have been given a wonderful tool – but just like a [...]

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Social inventory: Out with bad people, in with good

I wear many hats. For several years I was an assistant coach of my older girl’s soccer team, and had to help teach and motivate a group of girls from the ages of 6 to 9 years old. As a surgeon, I’ve seen thousands of patients over the years and with my [...]

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Loose skin after LapBand and weight loss Surgery

One of the most frequent questions we hear at our informational seminars is, “will I have loose skin after I lose a lot of weight with weight loss surgery?” That’s a tough question to answer because it’s different for every person. Increasing age decreases the elastic stretch of the skin, so older [...]

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Lap Band and drinking water

Why is it that we’re always pushing our patients to drink water? Do we own stock in a bottled water company? Well, no, but I sure do wish I had thought of the whole concept 20 years ago so I could take New Jersey tap water and sell it for $2.00 [...]

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