Arizona LAP-BAND

The LAP-BAND works by allowing you to eat less, and be satisfied. Where do your calories come from? Do they come from eating a bit more at meals than you should? Do they come from eating between meals-- the high calorie snacks? Weight loss is a simple concept -- if you eat less then you lose weight. The problem is that eating less isn't easy. Attempting to eat less makes you hungry later. What is in your house to eat when you are hungry? What do you eat when you are hungry? Imagine being able to eat less and feel satisfied, not only for that meal, but having that sense of satisfaction (satiety) last until your next meal. That is what the LAP-BAND can do for you. People gain weight because they eat slightly more than they burn. If you eat 96 calories a day more than you burn then at the end of a year you will weigh ten pounds more than you do now. Do that for five years in a row and you have gained 50 pounds. Do you know how many calories you burn a day? Here is a fun exercise. Calculate the amount of calories you burn a day now, and calculate how many calories you would be at your ideal body weight. To do that click here.What you may be shocked to find out is that to be a 150 pound person you have to eat like a 150 pound person - and there are not that many calories a day difference, but it is enough to be the main reason that DIETS DON'T WORK in the long-run. How can you eat those fewer calories and maintain the weight you want? The LAP-BAND. Recently shown in clinical trials to be more effective and long-lasting than diet alone. That wasn't in patients who were morbidly obese -- that was in patients who only had 50 pounds of weight to lose! To have sustained weight loss, you need The LAP-BAND. But installing a LAP BAND isn't the only thing that leads to permanent and sustained weight loss. It is knowing how to use the band, knowing when the band needs to be adjusted, knowing how much to adjust it. But even more, it is providing support that goes beyond the mechanics of the band. Our practice is dedicated to the success of our patients. Our practice is a series of success stories, of patients who have gotten to goal, and share their insights with you. We have spent year studying what it takes to get there, and more than the operation -- it is knowing how to use it that sets our practice apart.
Imagine being able to eat smaller quantities of food -- food that you enjoy -- and being satisfied. LAP-BAND surgery doesn't mean that you lose the enjoyment of food. LAP-BAND surgery is a tool to eat less and still be satisfied. Did you ever try a diet where you eat less food? Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, and many popular diets are based on eating less and losing weight. Where these programs can fall short is that your stomach holds a lot more than those small portions, leaving you hungry and wanting to snack between meals. But with the LAP-BAND your brain is fooled into thinking that you are full.
What makes your brain think that you are full? It is the nerves that are in the top part of your stomach. When the top part of the stomach is stretched these nerves send send a signal to the brain saying that you are full. When you eat a large meal, you fill the stomach from the bottom to the top. When the food reaches the top part of your stomach, and the stomach is stretched, the nerves send a signal to your brain, and your brain tells you that you are full. The LAP-BAND is placed below this part of the stomach so that as you eat food, the band keeps the food in the top part of the stomach. You eat a small amount of food and your stomach signals the brain that you are full. We can adjust the band allowing you to feel full between meals, or we can loosen the band entirely and allow you to eat normally. Download this video to hear Dr. Simpson explain how the band works.	Here you see the band is placed on the stomach to allow you to eat a cup of food comfortably. Eat less, and lose weight. By placing the band here your brain is fooled into thinking you are fooled. Weight loss comes naturally, and you can still enjoy food-- just less of it.
The LAP-BAND is adjustable. That means we can adjust to allow you to feel full longer. Eat less and feel full. As you lose weight your band will get loose -- just like your pants will. To tighten the band is often done in the office in just a few minutes. The RNY creates the same size pouch, but instead of an adjustable opening, the opening out of the pouch in the RNY is fixed. With the RNY you cannot adjust the opening without surgery.	Are you ready for the most modern, safest weight loss surgery? Time to get started. To fill out our registration forms click here. This will allow you to register for a free seminar.
Portion sizes of todays foods are much larger than they were twenty years ago. Is it any wonder there are more people having to lose weight? For example, today's hamburger is almost 260 calories more than hamburgers twenty years ago. That means you would have to lift weights for an hour and a half to burn those excess calories! Large portion sizes contributes to obesity. The LAP-BAND allows you to eat smaller portions of food and feel satisfied. Less food means fewer calories, and that translates into weight loss.	No staples means safer surgery. It means we can adjust the opening of the stomach to allow food to go through faster, or slower. It means you can still eat the foods you enjoy, but eat less of them. Eat less, lose weight-- look great!

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