Guest post by Dr. Mark Watson, a university based Lap Band surgeon. It is very important to realize what your LapBand can and cannot do, and also to decide what it is designed to do and not designed to do. I want to remind everyone that the Lap Band is designed to help you with [...]

I had an epiphany recently when speaking with a patient whose first 105 lbs came off like wax melting off a lit candle, but was now……stuck in a plateau.  I asked her about diet and food choices and we found some areas where she could make positive changes.  But when I asked her about exercise, [...]

Dr. Rachael Keilin, a female Lap Band surgeon in Texas, discusses weight gain associated with some common medications. Not a week goes by in clinic that I don’t hear somebody lamenting a recent weight gain they attribute to starting a new medication.  While it’s true that some medications will almost always cause an increase in [...]