Before & After Gallery

I am so happy I decided to have weight loss surgery. I had been on so many diets throughout my teenage to adult years. I was always Yo-yo dieting. You name the diet, or medication for weight loss, I had tried it. I would lose weight and then after a few months regain the weight plus extra. I had been seriously thinking about having weight loss surgery for at least 1-2 years before making an actual appointment with a weight loss surgeon. I researched online people who had had weight loss surgery and this information was helpful. I decided that I needed to have surgery because I was starting to have body aches and was snoring. I was physically unfit and would get out of breath walking upstairs and was beginning to find it hard to buy clothes I liked in my size. Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes also runs in my family and both my parents who were obese died in their early 50’s and 60’s. I knew that surgery was the only solution for me to lose and keep the weight off and hopefully not get type 2 diabetes. Before s

Greg 48 years old - lost over 100kg in 12 months

Two years ago I was in a very dark place. I had tipped the scales at 139 kg and was wearing size 26 clothes. I was in poor health, I had sore joints, high BP and I was staring down the barrel of a diabetes diagnosis. I was depressed and I was ready to “Check out of Life!”

I'm Rob and have just turned 60. I had bariatric surgery with Surgery Brisbane in December 2018 following a casual chat with my GP and coming to the realisation that, if I continued carrying the weight I had (at that time I was 150kg), I faced serious health issues including, but not limited to, diabetes and heart disease.