3 Legged Stool Analogy
Dr Georgia Rigas, our senior Bariatric Medical Practitioner has insights into weight management gleaned from being involved in the care of thousands of patients during their weight loss journey. She has a has a useful analogy for the role that bariatric surgery plays...
Barriers to Accessing Treatment for Obesity
Dr Georgia Rigas, one of our resident GP’s and a very experienced bariatric practitioner, recently attended the Obesity Summit Australia 2018. Dr Rigas is Chair of the RACGP Obesity Management Specific Interests network and represented Australia’s GP’s at the summit....
Support Group Meeting 15th August 2018
Our last support group meeting featured guest speaker Dr Amira Sanki who is a Sydney based plastic surgeon at Southern Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. The reason we had Dr Sanki speak at our support group is because when a person loses a significant amount of weight...
Bariatric surgery – not the ‘easy option’
Not only as a nation but worldwide we are seeing obesity rates steadily increase. There are many different arguments as to what could be causing this and how we fix the epidemic, but we are not going to debate them today. Today we are going to explain why bariatric...
Why we crave high carb fatty foods… it’s not our fault but our brains!
Pizza, cheeseburgers, french fries… I’m yet to meet a person that doesn’t have a love for one of all of these foods. We assume that it is the taste of these foods that drives us to love them and crave them, but have you ever considered that maybe your craving for high...
After Bariatric Surgery  – an analogy
Analogy - a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Bariatric surgery is often viewed by the world as a ‘quick’, ‘easy’, ‘lazy’ way to lose weight. It is viewed as a ‘one off’ operation that will fix a...