Losing weight is a problem for many people these days. If we look at the basics, as a society, we eat too much food, plain and simple. The problem is in getting your body changed to a situation where that excess intake can be reduced down to a reasonable level. Diets tend not to work, as it is almost impossible to keep them working, as it is like quitting smoking, but having a few cigarettes a day, but no more than a few.
The answer has been perfected with the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure known as lap-band surgery which in simple terms restricts the input of food by means of a small band around part of the digestive system, and allows the senses to give the brain a message that you are full. It is adjustable, reversible, and very simply done by means of small incisions to allow the use of 'scope' type surgical tools.