Life-Changing Weight Loss Surgery

Weight loss surgery can change your life.  When losing weight feels impossible and you’ve tried to shed pounds using nonsurgical methods without success, you still have a path to a healthy life.  Weight loss surgery can dramatically reduce your weight by physically restricting your appetite and reducing your hunger and food take while you establish a healthier diet and exercise regime.

Why Fight Obesity?

Morbid obesity can directly cause diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, sleep apnea, liver disease, gallbladder disease, depression and a number of other diseases and medical conditions.  If you are morbidly obese or have a condition as a result of your obesity, reducing your weight can save your life and significantly improve your health.

Morbid obesity threatens not just your overall physical, mental and emotional health, but also your standard of living and oftentimes affects your family.  Your weight problem can largely affect the quality of life for your loved ones, who must, with you, live out the health effects of excessive weight and the restrictions these effects cause.

Find a Weight Loss Surgery Specialist You Can Trust

Weight loss surgery should be performed by a surgical specialist who you trust.   Your surgery specialist should have an appropriate amount of experience and a record of successful surgeries.  Your weight loss specialist should provide thorough consultation and education prior to the surgery and comprehensive after care.  

You should be made full aware that your procedure is not a one-time event that easily resolves your weight problem, but rather is a powerful vehicle that helps you dramatically reduce your weight and change your eating habits to assume a healthier lifestyle.

Dr. Richard Collier has more than 32 years of surgical experience and is a trusted weight loss surgery specialist for the Houston area.  He was one of the pioneers for laparoscopic surgery in Montgomery County and is established as a member of the Texas Medical Association, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.