As pioneers in weight loss surgery in Australia, our main focus is helping our patients to lose excess body weight following their surgery. Surgery isn’t sufficient on it’s own to lose weight, but our patients must commit to a life long diet/lifestyle change to... Read more
Once again the holy month of Ramadan is here for those who follow the religion of Islam; requiring participants to fast between dawn and midnight. Let’s just recap some of our tips we have shared on previous years with how to tackle your post bariatric surgery diet... Read more
Bariatric surgery has become increasingly popular over the last few decades as a result of the rise in obesity around the world. Surgery such as gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric banding are the most popular types of bariatric surgery due to the impact... Read more
In February we held our first Support Group Meeting of 2018 for our weight loss surgery patients. Bariatric surgery is just the beginning of a lifelong commitment to change that our patients need to make in order to return to and maintain a healthy weight. Attending... Read more
Most people that visit our surgery to learn more about bariatric surgery options have already at some point in their lives tried to lose weight on their own, whether this be through a diet, exercise program or meal replacements. Unfortunately after reaching an... Read more
Although Medicare as a public health system is effective, like any other system in the world it also has drawbacks. Unfortunately bariatric surgery is currently one of those areas that Medicare appears to be falling behind in when it comes down to the current demand... Read more
At Upper GI Surgery we are pioneers of weight loss surgery here in Australia. One aspect that differentiates our surgery from others is our comprehensive post-operative care of patients. Weight loss surgery is part of a much larger process involving a complete change... Read more
As we start 2018 everybody seems to become very conscious of making healthy choices; this isn’t in our nature, but it is typically because everywhere you turn there are ads for fitness classes, ‘drop 3 dress sizes in 3 weeks’ with our slimming shakes, ‘new year new... Read more
