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Do diets work? Almost always. The caveat is that a diet works only as long as you’re following it. The moment you quit – whether it’s because you’re too hungry, too bored, or feeling utterly deprived – you’ll probably regain the weight because you’ll go back to your previous eating habits. Changing eating habits is much more effective than following a series of temporary diets. If you’ve repeatedly tried to lose weight through dieting and exercise, only to fail, weight loss surgery might be the right choice for you.

Bariatric surgeries are undertaken with the goal of removing the excess fat and reaching a goal weight. Gastric bypass and LAP-BAND® surgery are the two most popular and accepted forms of bariatric surgeries, and these procedures are performed thousands of times a year throughout the country. Though they use slightly different methods to help you lose weight, both have been proven very effective.