Khalili Center: Keeping the weight off after surgery | kabc7

The Khalili Center for Bariatric Care is featured in this exclusive KABC7 News segment, discussing a better post-surgery psychological formula for success, featuring the unique care to ensure patients keep the weight off after bariatric surgery. Dr. Ted Khalili, founder and director talks about what it takes to lose weight and to create a new life that maintains a healthy lifestyle to make the surgery successful. "If you don't connect, if you don't come to support groups, if you don't change your lifestyle you will regain weight." TK. The KC has these programs to help you obtain your goals, and they are non-revenue aspects of the KC's care. "The doctors give us this gift, then it's up to us to make sure we use it properly." - Larry Kaltman, Khalili Center patient Healthy Living Keeping the weight off after surgery Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Denise Dador - KABC7 Health Reporter LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In recent years, the number of people getting weight loss surgery has quadrupled, but doctors say it is not the simple fix that many people think it is. Once the procedure is complete, the hard work begins. So how do you make sure people don't slide back into their unhealthy ways? One local doctor says it takes a team effort. We usually see doctors and patients talking in a medical office. But once a month, Dr. Ted Khalili, a bariatric surgeon, takes off his white coat and heads to the track with as many patients as he can get there. Larry Kaltman, 66, always tries to make it ...