Weightloss Surgery

“The day I chose weight loss surgery with Gateway Health I took back control of my life – everything has changed for the better.”


Obesity doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a complex combination of eating behaviours, emotional needs, environmental factors, physiology, and your individual psychology – all coming together over a long and sustained period of time to affect your weight and your health.

Weight loss surgeries are tools which can kick-start weight loss – motivating and supporting you in your fight with obesity. There is no ‘miracle cure’ for obesity but choosing weight loss surgery is a great first step towards controlling your weight – it allows you to lose weight at a healthy rate and to then control your weight once you reach your goals, maintaining your new healthier weight long term.

Combining weight loss surgery with comprehensive aftercare is proven to help patients reduce their weight and improve their quality of life. We offer internationally proven medical and surgical weight loss treatments including (non-surgical) gastric balloon, gastric band surgery, gastric sleeve surgery (also called sleeve gastrectomy) and gastric bypass (also called Roux-en-Y Bypass surgery).

We combine these procedures with our unique Gateway Health aftercare programme which is designed not only to provide successful weight loss but to also educate patients on maintaining their weight loss long term. Whether patients follow the gastric balloon programme, gastric band programme, gastric sleeve programme or gastric bypass programme each one is treated as an individual and all patients are guaranteed lifetime support. Any medical or surgical procedure is an important decision and we are committed to delivering the highest quality, long term care to patients to ensure they maintain their healthier, happier weight.

Patients who turn to weight loss surgery have often tried many different diets or weight loss pills, always believing each time that this would be the last time and then each time finding themselves ultimately a few pounds heavier and feeling as though they’ve failed. The Gateway Health aftercare programme is designed to help patients recognise this cycle of failure and to break down their own barriers to success by acknowledging their individual needs and giving them the opportunity to focus on their weight loss in a supportive and caring environment.

The gastric balloon and the gastric band are very powerful tools that if used correctly can help patients to achieve their long term weight goals and assist them in ensuring a healthy weight profile in the future. The gastric sleeve (sleeve gastrectomy) and gastric bypass (roux en Y bypass) are complex surgeries which must be combined with expert aftercare to achieve excellent long term health benefits and increase life expectancy.

Gastric band

Gastric band surgery is becoming increasingly popular, either as a last resort for the morbidly obese or to provide a quicker way to lose weight for those who are prepared to undergo gastric band surgery.

The gastric band procedure, which reduces the amount of room for food in the stomach, has been in use since the mid-1980s and the number of gastric band operations is increasing by approximately 10% each year.

The average weight loss for people having a gastric band is up to 50% of their excess weight in the two years, after they have a gastric band fitted people almost immediately cut the risk of diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure.

Benefits of a Gastric Band
  • The Gastric Band has a very high success rate for short and long term weight loss
  • Gastric band surgery can improve health problems associated with obesity
  • Gastric Band surgery does not involve cutting or stapling the stomach
  • Gastric Band surgery is reversible
  • Gastric Bands are adjustable to assist your weight loss

Gastric Band patient information

t is important that we all see the use of the gastric band in weight loss not just as an operation but as a process of care by a team which commences before the gastric band is placed and continues afterwards.

Gastric Band - Team approach
There must be a partnership between yourself and the team. Success will only occur if both partners contribute. The team must fulfil their role, by placing the band correctly, expert follow up and advice must be given in a way that you can understand. You in turn must be committed to following the rules regarding eating, exercise and activity, and keep in contact with the team looking after you.

Commitment to Gastric Band Surgery

You should not consider having a gastric band procedure unless you are totally committed to fulfilling your part of the partnership.

You will be given a separate diet sheet which has rules for eating post procedure. The essence of these rules are;
  • A maximum of 3 small good quality meals per day.
  • No snacks between meals.
  • Each meal has to be solid food.
  • There should be minimal liquid calories per day, from tea coffee and mineral water etc.
  • You must eat foods that have good protein content, such as meats, egg dishes, fish, beans and lentils and food that have a high fibre content, such as breakfast cereals, fruit and vegetables.
  • Limit foods that are high in fat and simple sugars.
  • Most importantly you learn to eat slowly and a very small volume of food at each meal.


Gastric Band and you You must also learn to increase your energy output. There must be an increase in activities such as walking and swimming.

Gastric Band - maintaining your weight loss
The primary focus of the gastric band effect is on the amount of weight that is lost. We expect that on average people who have the procedure will lose between 1/2 and 2/3 of their excess weight in 1 – 2 years post procedure. This is an average, and it will depend on the individual, some more and some less. Because we have control over the gastric restriction, we have the confidence that we can achieve more weight loss without interfering with the quality of life. We don't want to have a severe restriction on normal living patterns.
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