If you talk to severely obese people, you'll find that many of them have been attempting to lose weight through reduced calorie diets and exercise for most of their lives, obviously without permanent success. Michael Feiz, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a leading board certified bariatric surgeon who has been at the forefront of the latest and most sophisticated weight loss procedures, including the lap band and sleeve gastrectomy, which get at the root cause of obesity.

It might seem extremely obvious that excess appetite leads to overeating, in turn causing obesity, but it's a far more intractable problem than it sounds. This is because the feelings of excess appetite experienced by overweight people feel very much like ordinary hunger, and they are just as hard to ignore. Fortunately, weight loss procedures have been successful in reducing or eliminating those feelings, allowing obese people to actually change their eating habits and lose weight for once and for all.

Dr. Feiz is one of the nation's leading weight loss specialists and an expert in all aspects of weight loss medicine. He is ready to help patients with what may be the most important decisions of their lives. Few are better able to help you weigh the relative pluses and minuses of lap band vs gastric sleeve surgeries. Moreover, as a highly skilled practitioner of minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures, he is able to perform the most delicate of weight loss procedures. For example, he has helped numerous patients with procedures to convert band to sleeve operations when initial procedures fail to produce the desired result.

If you or a loved one is seriously interested in defeating a lifelong problem with obesity through surgery, your next move should be to attend a free seminar at Dr. Feiz's offices. It might just be the most important meeting of your entire life.