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Gastric Band Operations Is Not The Best Way To Lose Weight

Topic: Dieting and Weight LossFeaturing Claire HegartyPublished August 4, 2011

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Weight Loss Hypnotherapy is the answer to safe and guaranteed weight loss, UK expert Claire Hegarty has claimed. Are Gastric Bands the Celebrity Culture to lose weight the safest way to become your ideal weight, No! According to the well known Health and Weight Loss Hypnotherapy Expert Claire Hegarty who gives her clients 100% guarantee they will lose weight with Gastric Band Hypnotherapy. Claire Hegarty who offers free advice over the phoneoffers a full guarantee explains that Hypnotherapy for weight loss is the safest way to lose weight and keep the weight off. The public interest in Gastric Bands has increased with Celebrity Admissions such as Fern Cotton whom have publicly admitted they have used this procedure to lose weight, but is the procedure 100% safe, the answer is no! Not only has this procedure caused discomfort with patients but it has also claimed the lives of Gastric band patients including the life of Bernadette Reid, Suzanne Murphy 29, and Marilyn Wardrop 54, to name a few and one life loss to an invasive procedure is one life to many says Claire Hegarty who presents her own Health Radio show. With the celebrity culture of looking like a size 0 and wanting to look like their idols on Television and copying their favourite celebrities who have had the gastric procedure successfully done, people do not investigate the downside of gastric band procedures which includes the fact that people have died. People are to quick to look at the Gastric Band operations as a solution without doing their research of looking into alternative ways of losing weight which includes spending time with their GP and specially trained nurses in weight loss at their local surgery and going down the Hypnotherapy Route to Lose Weight and speaking to their local Health Clubs for advice. With all procedures that are not life threatening, you should do your research says Claire Hegarty. The Gastric Band procedure is now widely available in the private sector and people are failing to research the private clinic to see how successful they have been and if their patients have been happy with the procedure and service. No one likes to talk about death, but this is something that needs looking into when thinking about undertaking this procedure with a private clinic. You need to research the clinic like you would if you were going to undertake a breast enlargement or facial cosmetic surgery procedure and find out if any patients have died through the clinic performing gastric band surgery and if their previous clients were happy with the procedure and the care that they had received. There is a range of post-operative problems reported with gastric bands, and patients can experience one or more of the following symptoms: Nausea and vomiting Reflux or regurgitation of food Slipped band Obstruction or blockage Constipation Diarrhoea Difficulty swallowing If these complications cause you serious discomfort your band may need to be adjusted or removed. This involves further surgery, exposing you to all the associated risks once again. The Gastric Band can also slip, this causes the lower part of the stomach to swell over the band and become an obstruction. There can also be mechanical problems, such as leakage of the saline that fills the band, or cracking of the tube between the band and the reservoir. In these cases the band will need to be removed and replaced involving more surgery all in the name of losing weight through surgery. What people also fail to understand is, as well as the medical complications that can happen and are listed above, there can also be physical problems. In some rare cases, the Gastric band can erode into the stomach wall and migrate into the stomach, sounds nasty, it is. Some people turn to Gastric Bands as a quick fix because they do not want to put the in the effort of losing weight, others turn to this procedure because they have tried diets that do not work for them and they feel that the Gastric Band procedure is their last resort and others turn to the Gastric Procedure due to people’s perception of them because of their weight as well as other people who turn to this procedure due to Bullying which includes Suzanne Murphy 29 who died of undertaking the gastric band procedure after taking the drastic steps to stop her son being bullied due to her not being Size 0. So what alternative ways are there out there to lose weight, well as mentioned you can speak to your GP says Claire Hegarty and medical staff at your local Health Clinic and talk about Diets that are right for you, or you can look into using Hypnotherapy which is very successful and does not involve any surgery. Hypnosis can help by allowing you to overcome unconscious obstacles, which prevent you from losing weight and from keeping weight off after a successful diet. You know that eating too much is not what you desire and you know that exercise and sensible diet are important. However, these are not conscious, logical issues. Successful weight loss is as much about re-educating your unconscious mind as it is about dieting. Hypnosis is one of the most natural ways to lose weight. You can also speak to your local Gym about devising you a routine to exercise to help you lose weight but the Gastric Band procedure must be your last option says Claire Hegarty. For many who go through the gastric band procedure, even if they do lose the weight they wanted, the mental battle with food is still there; again this is where hypnotherapy can add to the benefits of losing weight.

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Claire Louise Hegarty - Performance Coach, Breakthrough Therapist and Certified Reiki Master Working with you to discover, unlock and live your true potential...what would it be worth to you to maximise your true potential? I often appear on radio and work all around the UK as well as having clients abroad. http://www.clairehegarty.co.uk

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