Patients Stories

Testimonials

Since our inception, Bariatric Medicine Integrated has changed lives with the Bioring Gastric Band. Our patients have had many successes and below we are sharing some of them with you.

 

SADIE’S JOURNEY

Today I am proud to say with the help of a Gastric band I have been successful.

Age: 43
Gastric Band procedure was done on the 18th of July 2016 weighing 106kg
First adjustment: 30th Sep 2016
Second band adjustment: 30th Jan (weight 93kg)

I am still on my weight loss journey, and I am loving it.
Date: 28th March 2017
Weight: 82.3kg
Lost: 24kg
Goal weight: 75kg (7kg to go)

Clothe size at beginning of journey: Size 18
Current size: 12 – 14

The reason why I chose the gastric band: I had tried ALL the diets some failed and some were successful and I kept on loosing
and regaining the weight. I was on the border line of chronic medication for high blood pressure, and I chose a healthy life by losing some weight
Today I am proud to say with the help of a Gastric band I have been successful.

Now 82.3kgs

JOHN’S JOURNEY

I started this journey at a start weight of 160kg and a trouser size of 60.

I started this journey at a start weight of 160kg and a trouser size of 60, as measured in Dr. Dewar’s consultation rooms.
With a BMI index of 50, and described by the family practitioner as a walking heart attack I knew I had to make a drastic life change.

My current lifestyle now consists of at least an hour a day in the gym. Which I attend between 05:00 and 06:00 although that most often extends to 06:45.
Before my weight loss journey, I would walk 300m and be out of breath, even more so if the gradient was steep.
Now I can run on the treadmill for 20 minutes and be less fatigued as before. My daily ritual at the gym consists of the Cardio Circuit,
10 minutes on the rowing machine and 30 minutes on the Stationary Bike.

I look at the Guys and Gels trying to get larger muscles and think that that isn’t for me.
Heavy, I’ve done that.

One of the best feelings of losing all the weight, apart from the health benefits, is my ability to shop for clothing that fits. Not only in size, but is what I want to wear.
And not some safari, olive green drab bed sheet, because that’s the largest shirt in the store.

I found that on previous diets, heartburn was a terrible menace. That often forced one to give up on the weight loss, just to douse the fire that ragged within.
With the band I found the fills to be painless, the diet easy to follow as the hunger pains were gone, and the fire non-existent.
The biggest obstacle, I now can see is the one between ones ears.

Now 87kgs