If you’re considering lap band surgery or just beginning to think about lap band surgery as a solution to your weight problems and wondering how much weigh you can lose, I will try to answer this in this short article. This is one of the questions I’m most often asked along with the cost.

If you’re just considering the lap band system because you’re just a little overweight then the lap band procedure is not for you. Candidates for lap band surgery have serious obesity issues and this is called being “morbidly obese.” There is a way to determine that through the body mass index scale – the BMI as it is called and you’re probably familiar with it.

Certified Weight Loss, Life/Energy Coach, Double Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnosis, Andrea Amador teaches a non diet based approach 13 week teleclass series called Self Image Makeover: 90 Days To A Slim, Savvy Naturally Slender You. The next program begins on Wednesday, May 9 at 3:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern. For future programs, visit the website for updated details. This 13 week teleclass series is for women with weight issues who are suffering from a distorted or negative body image. This bears out in mental self talk that becomes a subconscious command to the brain to repeat patterns of behavior that often sabotage the chosen goal of losing weight. This leads to feelings of self defeat and causes women to feel badly and ultimately seek out food for comfort.

Using visualization techniques, meditations and various other belief change work methods, including teaching a non diet strategy for weight loss, Andrea will coach the women to alter their internal self image, recreate positive memories, eliminate negative thought patterns, beliefs and feelings, effortlessly develop new empowering habits and generate positive anchors around exercise, food and having a slim and healthy body image by teaching easy to learn painless and natural mental processes based on The Law of Attraction, Psycho Cybernetics, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Energy coaching and Ericksonian Hypnosis.