Erika remembers her children sitting on their grandmother’s bed as Grandma read them a story. It wasn’t bedtime, Grandma was always in bed. Health issues complicated by obesity kept her there until it claimed her life. Erika’s children are now grown and she is looking forward being the grandma, even as she fights her own battle with obesity. But Erika is determined for her story to end differently.
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One hundred-fifty pounds is the weight of an average woman who is 5’-10” tall. That’s also how much weight Jackie Spratt lost with LAP-BAND®. Jackie, at 5’- 5” tall, has lost more than half her total body weight, but that’s only half the story. Read Jackie’s story...

Paul is the type of person to “live life to the fullest”. But his hunger for life once included an insatiable appetite for food. That weakness drove him to obesity.
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