Does your weight have a negative effect on your everyday life and daily activities? Is exercise failing to help you shed the weight you need to lose? Have you consistently gained back weight you’ve lost through dieting? If you’re obese and facing these issues, you may be a candidate for weight loss surgery.
Fortunately, residents of the Dallas area enjoy access to top-notch weight loss surgery specialists. Denton native Dr. Daryl A. Stewart has been involved with bariatric weight loss surgery since 1997. As owner and director of the Weight Loss Specialists of North Texas, Dr. Stewart offers surgical weight loss solutions to Dallas residents suffering from morbid obesity.
If you’re located in the Dallas area, choose from one of three convenient locations:
- 30 minute drive to Trinity Medical Center in Carrolton
- 30 minute drive to Prestonwood Surgery Center in Plano
- 45 minute drive to Weight Loss Specialists Denton Office
Why seek local resources? Weight loss surgery requires time, effort, and recovery on the patient’s part. Working with a local Dallas weight loss surgery team allows the experts to guide you through each step of the process to help ensure lasting weight loss results.
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What is Weight Loss Surgery?
You may have read about weight loss surgery or spoken to friends who have experienced the benefits. Surgical weight loss is often associated with dramatic physical changes and a significant improvement in quality of life. But how does it work?
Surgery to treat morbid obesity works by restricting the amount of food that can be taken in or by reducing the body’s ability to digest food. The second method, referred to as malabsorptive weight loss surgery, is often performed in tandem with the restrictive approach.
In basic terms, bariatric surgery restructures portions of your stomach or intestinal system to help you significantly adjust your eating habits. Weight loss surgery is not plastic surgery and does not involve removing fat from your body. In order for surgical weight loss to succeed, the patient must commit to lifelong adjustments in diet—specifically, a drastic reduction in meal size.
Thanks to the improvements made to gastric bypass surgery since its beginnings in the 1950s, these procedures have become an effective and safe method of achieving profound weight reduction. For many patients, weight loss surgery is covered by insurance, making it a viable solution for more and more morbidly obese individuals.
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Gastric Bypass Surgery in Dallas
In basic terms, gastric bypass surgery creates a smaller stomach and a new route for food that bypasses a portion of the small intestine.
Why are these adjustments made?
- A smaller stomach makes you feel full very quickly, decreasing the amount of food you eat.
- The bypass allows food to pass through your body in a way that lowers the amount of calories absorbed.
- This combination reduces your caloric intake, allowing you to lose weight.
In Dallas, Weight Loss Specialists of North Texas perform the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Your weight loss surgery specialist creates the small pouch by surgically stapling off the upper portion of the stomach. The small pouch acts as a new, significantly smaller stomach, reducing the amount of food you can eat.
In the Roux-en-Y surgical method, the “Y” portion refers to the new route for food that’s created when the small patch is routed to a portion of the small intestine.
Gastric Bypass Surgery requires you to adjust the way you eat and live your life. As you begin to lose weight, you will meet with your weight loss specialist team in Dallas to ensure that you’re getting the proper nutritional requirements and sufficient vitamins and minerals. Contact Weight Loss Specialists of North Texas to learn more about gastric bypass surgery.
Gastric Band Surgery in Dallas
In recent years, adjustable gastric band surgery has become a popular method of surgical weight loss in Dallas. Gastric band surgery works by using an adjustable plastic band to create a small pouch at the top of the stomach. The pouch restricts how much food can enter the stomach at one time and causes a rapid sensation of fullness when eating.
This minimally invasive procedure often involves more gradual weight loss and requires a higher level of patient compliance and cooperation. Patients choose this surgical weight loss method with the understanding that weight loss will require habit adjustments and healthy choices.
At Weight Loss Specialists of North Texas, Gastric band surgery is performed using the LAP-BAND® System. The band is placed during minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. Attend a bariatric surgery seminar in Dallas to learn more about this popular procedure.
Why are patients in Dallas choosing LAP-BAND weight loss surgery?
- The LAP-BAND procedure is adjustable and reversible.
- Laparoscopic surgery involves shorter hospital stays, smaller incisions, and less discomfort.
- Patients can generally resume normal activity in about a week.
- Simple adjustments can be made in the Dallas weight loss offices.
- Patients enjoy a lower risk of nutritional deficiency, as a regular diet is maintained.
Duodenal Switch Surgery in Dallas
If you’re morbidly obese and seeking dramatic weight loss, you may be a candidate for Duodenal Switch surgery. Contact a weight loss surgeon in Dallas if this procedure is right for you.
What is Duodenal Switch surgery?
Remember the two reasons that weight loss surgery works? Duodenal Switch surgery combines those two elements to help patients achieve and maintain dramatic weight loss. The restrictive element of the Duodenal Switch is achieved by removing part of the stomach entirely. The malabsorptive element of the surgery is achieved by restructuring the small intestine to adjust the way that food is digested.
Why does It work?
After Duodenal Switch surgery, patients can only eat small portions of food at a time. The smaller stomach and structure of the stomach limit feelings of hunger. The adjusted small intestine limits digestion, absorption of calories and fat intake.
What do Duodenal Switch surgery patients need to know?
This procedure affords patients the highest degree of weight loss possible through bariatric surgery. These dramatic results come with additional risks, so talk to your weight loss specialist in Dallas about whether or not you’re a good candidate. Attend a surgical weight loss seminar to learn more about the Duodenal Switch.
Sleeve Gastrectomy Weight Loss Surgery in Dallas
Patients seeking surgical weight loss in Dallas benefit from sleeve gastrectomy, a relatively new and revolutionary method of laparoscopic surgery. During this bariatric weight loss surgery technique, Dr. Stewart divides the stomach using staples before removing a large portion of the stomach.
The remaining muscular part of the stomach creates a tube or sleeve that restricts the amount of food a patient can eat at one time. This small stomach sleeve causes patients to feel full after eating small portions of food. Because of decreased hunger-inducing hormone secretion, patients also experience appetite reduction after sleeve gastrectomy.
In order to lose weight and keep it off, patients must commit to new eating habits. The gastric sleeve holds from one to five ounces of food. When less food is consumed, caloric intake is greatly reduced. Patients must bear in mind that soft, high-calorie foods like ice cream and milkshakes should be consumed in moderation.
In follow-up studies, sleeve gastrectomy patients achieved weight loss results similar to those that typically result from laparoscopic banding surgery. This technique has sometimes been as effective as gastric bypass surgery.
Benefits of Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Sleeve gastrectomy is permanent and does not require ongoing adjustments.
- This method is performed via minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery.
- Because the intestines aren’t bypassed, nutritional deficiencies and intestinal obstructions are avoided.
- The tube-shaped stomach resists stretching.
If you think you may be a candidate for revolutionary sleeve gastrectomy surgery, attend a seminar to find out more.
Getting Started in Dallas
Before beginning your weight loss journey, evaluate your personal situation. Have you been diagnosed as morbidly obese? Have you already attempted traditional weight loss techniques and healthy eating practices?
Consider Recovery
While Lap-Band weight loss surgery techniques can be performed on an outpatient basis, most surgery options range from a two-night to a four-night stay in the hospital. Some patients may be able to return to work in about two weeks, but a full recovery generally requires six to eight weeks. Keep these timelines in mind as you think about whether or not surgical weight loss is right for you.
Prepare to Participate
Are you ready to work alongside your weight loss team? With the guidance of the top Texas weight loss surgery team, you will learn how to make the right dietary and exercise choices to complement your procedure. The right attitude and habits will help you reach and maintain a steady goal weight in about 12 to 24 months.
Attend a Seminar
The best way to determine your candidacy and learn more is to attend a weight loss surgery seminar in Dallas. Contact the Weight Loss Specialists team to find out when and where to attend a seminar in the Dallas area.