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Healthier Weight patient Kate after gastric band surgery

Weight loss surgery success stories

Choosing to have weight loss surgery is an important decision as it has the potential to change your life. At Healthier Weight we are proud that we have changed the lives of so many.

Here you can read the stories of a few - how they felt being overweight, what led them to consider weight loss surgery, how they found the courage to have the procedure and how their lives were transformed.  These stories have all be written by the individuals themselves.

After surgery, people see improvements in their physical health but also experience benefits they weren't expecting - such as improved vitality, inner confidence and even greater happiness in their personal lives. 

To speak to a patient about their experience of weight loss surgery with Healthier Weight, call 0800 313 4618 

 

Helen lost 5 dress sizes

I have been big for as long as I can remember.  In the early 80s and 90s I remember all my friends used to find boyfriends but I didn’t.

Read Helen's story

My gastric band was worth every penny

Bernadette tried every new diet that emerged. After failing with dieting she turned to Healthier Weight and has never looked back.

Read Bernadette's story

My gastric band saved my life

I had a gastric band fitted to save my life from the threatening consequences of obesity and within 9 months it did, but in the most unexpected way imaginable.

Read Kate's story

Its never too late to lose weight

I tried every diet imagineable and my weight yo-yo’d until I was 67. Then I saw Dr Ashton on TV talking about a gastric band and thought it may be for me 

Read James' story

I lost 10 stones with a gastric bypass

It wasn’t until my late teens that I began to notice my weight. Then at 29 I became a father and realised something had to change if I was to see her grow up.

Read Duncan's story 

I lost 10 stones with a gastric bypass

I was the fat girl that always made the fat jokes first to make sure no-one else did. Now I have lost 10 stones with my gastric band and feel so much more confident.

Read Shirley's story

Carol lost 10 stones with a gastric bypass

Carols tells how she has lost over 10 stones. 'I have lost a whole person from inside of me literally!!' 

 

 Read Carol's story!

On top of the world

'Thanks to my gastric bypass, I have lost 10 stones and the future now looks much brighter for me and my family. '

 

 Read Richard's story