A woman lost over 10 stone (140 pounds) after gastric bypass surgery. She went from 19 stone (266 pounds) to 9 stone (126 pounds) after the surgery. She has since started an online business to help others afford similar surgeries abroad that are cheaper than in the UK. Her life has been completely transformed by the weight loss and surgery.

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10 Stone Weight-loss woman explains
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Upon arrival and after a tour of the hospital, she was so impressed with the
A woman who shed more than half her state of the art modern facilities that she went ahead with the procedure
body weight through radical surgery and has not looked back.
has spoken about her super-slimming
experience. 34-year-old Angela
Chouaib lost an astonishing ten stone
Now, weighing just nine stone and her life completely transformed,
after having the operation in January
she is using her experience to help others with similar problems.
last year.
The mother-of-two has now set up an online business
Mrs Chouaib, from Rochester, Kent,
www.SecretSurgery.co,uk offering luxury plastic, obesity & dental surgery
saw her weight rocket to 19 stone after
holidays for people who cannot afford to have treatment in England.
the birth of her children before she
undertook Gastric Bypass surgery at
St George's Hospital in London.
She said: "I have not done this to exploit the market. I think it is important
to offer people a solution to problems like mine. I want to dispel the image
of ‘backstreet butcher' procedures and show people there is a way to deal
She said: "I was never small as a child
with the issue in comfort and privacy.
but I put on around four stone after I
gave birth to each of my kids. I would-
n't say that I had a particularly un-
healthy diet but I tended to eat very
“Losing the weight and the treatment that I
large portions and mainly carbohy- received has completely changed my life.
drates. "I tried jogging and just about
every diet under the sun. I now feel like anything is possible."
I actually flew to Marrakesh in 2008
where I was given a Gastric Balloon,
which limits the size of your stomach
and makes you eat less. Unfortunately
it is a temporary procedure and I put
the weight back on. Gastric Bypass
Surgery was not something I took light-
ly and was my last resort."
As a result of her massive weight loss, Mrs Chouaib was left facing a two
year wait on the NHS to remove the masses of excess skin from her heavi-
er days - a common problem for people who have undertaken such proce-
dures. After months of desperate searching and faced with the possibility
of a £12,000 operation here on home soil, she stumbled across a clinic in
Poland where it is possible to have the procedure performed at a fraction
of the cost.
In April 2010, Mrs Chouaib flew to Wroclaw in Poland under the proviso
that she could meet the surgeon and that she was under no obligation. BEFORE AFTER
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