When exercise and a healthy diet aren’t supporting weight loss, you may feel ready to give up on your goals. However, there’s a nonsurgical solution available that can be the catalyst you need to realize your weight loss goals.
Gastro Center of Maryland offers the innovative Orbera™ gastric balloon procedure to help you achieve an ideal body weight safely.
In addition to gastric balloon placement, our highly skilled gastroenterologists provide personalized aftercare guidance, so you can learn how to maintain your results in the long term.
There are many factors that influence your weight and your ability to lose it. Some people aren’t successful with certain weight loss strategies because they aren’t consistent in the work. You may also find fad diets too difficult to follow or use weight loss techniques that aren’t safe or suited to your body type.
In some cases, underlying health issues can contribute to difficulties losing weight. For instance, if you have an untreated hormone imbalance or metabolic disorder, you may gain weight easily even when working to lose extra pounds.
Other things that can sideline your weight loss efforts include:
If you’re not able to lose weight with a healthy diet or daily exercise, have a body mass index (BMI) between 30 and 40, and want to avoid surgery, you may be a candidate for Orbera gastric balloon.
The Orbera system uses a saline-filled balloon to fill up space in your stomach, so there’s less room for food.
Because your stomach can only hold so much, you’ll be able to control your portions more efficiently while still feeling full. The balloon also helps you feel fuller for longer to prevent snacking in between meals.
The inflated balloon is about the size of a grapefruit and requires no incisions for insertion in your stomach. The balloon stays in place for six months to help you shed excess pounds while learning how to improve your eating habits and diet.
Our Gastro Center of Maryland providers help you set reasonable weight loss goals and continue to offer nutritional coaching, portion control recommendations, and exercises that make it easy to maintain your weight loss results without the Orbera balloon.
The Orbera system combines the benefits of the gastric balloon for portion control with necessary lifestyle and diet changes to support reliable and safe weight loss. On average, individuals lost 3.1 times the weight that people lost through diet and exercise alone.
One of the biggest benefits of the Orbera gastric balloon is that it’s a nonsurgical procedure that’s completely reversible. You won’t have to schedule extended time for recovery, so you can get back to your usual routine quickly.
You also have the advantage of working with our weight loss experts to learn more about what your body needs to be healthy. We specialize in integrative nutrition counseling and other services to help you make lifelong changes in your diet and lifestyle, so you can function at optimum levels.
Call the Gastro Center of Maryland office near you today to learn more about the benefits of Orbera gastric balloon. You can also book a consultation online.
