We are a bariatric surgeon and bariatric nurse practitioner who are experts in everything bariatric. We run a busy bariatric surgical practice in St.Augustine, Florida and have been privileged to have worked with over 15,000 post-operative patients to help them make life transformations. Since we are also bariatric patients ourselves, we recognize that true transformation doesn’t come on the operating room table…. It’s what someone does with the tool that makes them be able to step into a life of THRIVING health. What we have witnessed, is that all too often, people are gifted the tool of bariatric surgery, but unfortunately…not given the instructions or the “roadmap” for success. This leads to less than optimal success and health outcomes, and frequently to “weight recidivism” as we call it in medicine. This means weight regain after having lost initially after their procedure. 

This is devastating to the person who experiences it. It shatters ones’ self esteem and hope of a different future…free from the burden of excess weight. The surgery that was once thought of as the “answer to their problem” is now just another failed attempt at weight loss. 

It is our mission to restore hope and health to bariatric patients who experience weight regain after initial success, or those who never lost the amount of weight they had hoped to. We want to coach you through your weight loss barriers into THRIVING with your bariatric procedure for a lifetime!