When Danny decided to have Gastric Band surgery in 2007, his hopes were high that it was the best option for him to finally take off the excess weight that had plagued him his whole life.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first the Band was great,\u201d said the 30-year-old dad who was 360 at his heaviest. \u201cI lost 60 pounds in a year. The last 20 were a struggle but that was mostly because I had stopped being compliant with the diet and had found ways to cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Danny was still committed to getting healthier. That\u2019s when he learned that his first surgery wasn\u2019t his last chance at weight loss. He contacted New Jersey Bariatric Center\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong> about Revision Surgery. \u201cMy original surgeon didn\u2019t take my insurance, so I was happy when New Jersey Bariatric Center\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong> said they would take me as a patient.\u201d<\/p>\n Danny had his Band removed and a few months later, New Jersey Bariatric Center\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong> surgeons performed a sleeve gastrectomy. Since then he\u2019s lost more than 100 pounds.<\/p>\n \u201cI weigh less now than I did in middle school,\u201d said Danny who now fits into a size-34 pants and credits the last 20 pounds he\u2019s lost to his newfound love of running.<\/p>\n Danny said he\u2019s worked hard during the past year and the results have been better than he ever imagined. He keeps a few old pairs of pants as a reminder that he never wants to see his old size-44 again.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been amazing just watching that waist size drop over the past year,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the best part is that my wife can now wrap her arms around me. And my son, he\u2019ll never know me as being fat. Everyone else has that memory, but my son never will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":29286,"template":"","story-tag":[46],"patientsuccess_stories":[43,38],"yoast_head":"\n