Slimband Weight Loss Success Stories

The success of our patients is often a great source of inspiration and motivation for people who are still considering their weight loss options. We've created this space for our patients to share their weight loss stories in their own words.

Rosanne

I felt invincible during my early childhood. By the age of four, I was active in competitive sports like dancing and swimming. I don't recall being consumed with thoughts of food. My parents described me as an easy going eater, always ready to try various…

Kathy

As I near my eighth year since my laparoscopic band surgery, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how much this surgery and my involvement with the Bandster community has made a difference in my life. I was a mother of three at…

Belina

I was always the “chunky child”. All of my relatives would pinch my fat cheeks so hard, I would run and hide whenever family functions were beginning. Being from an Italian family, it was always about food. People come over—you eat...you’re sad—you eat...You have already…

Niki

I was fed up—I had tried every diet out there and I was exhausted—physically and emotionally. I was tired of always being hungry, always overeating and always feeling guilty, and needed to find a long term solution that worked for me. I thought I had…

John

My journey to permanent weight loss has been a long and frustrating one. In the past, would lose some weight- only to put more back on within weeks. This happened regularly for almost thirty years.In 2005, I decided that before I turned fifty years old,…

Sue

I have fought with my weight most of my life, but I managed to stay within a normal range by resorting to every diet under the sun. Name the diet, and I have been on it: the cottage cheese diet; the grapefruit diet; the cabbage…

John C

My weight was out of control. For most of my life, I struggled with weight gain, followed by weight loss, followed by weight gain – a vicious circle. Like so many others, I tried lots of variations on the themes of diet and…

Sacha

For far too long I had been unhappy—my weight was out of control, I had terrible self-esteem and I was in poor health. I had experienced some success with diets in the past, but as soon as I stopped following the diet, I rapidly gained…

Dr Jacques (MDCM, FRCS(C))

With a dangerously high BMI of 54, I was morbidly obese and suffering from diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. As a doctor I knew that I had to reduce my weight in order to improve my health. In June 2008, I decided that Slimband was…

Carol

In 1999 my husband and I moved 2 hours north east of Toronto to cottage country and opened a fine dining restaurant. Being an accomplished chef, my husband had always worked outside the home. However, the restaurant was now our business and our home, so…