There are a lot of different things that are on the market to help you lose weight. You can get clothes that will supposedly help melt the weight off. You can go and have surgery as well. You can also do horrible diets that are really hard on your body and will just make you sick. But one of the newest trends in the dieting world is weight loss balloons.

The FDA recently approved this weight loss balloons in order to help you lose weight. The point of these balloons is to fill up some space in your stomach so you feel fuller for longer and are less likely to eat as much. This can be a great relief to those who are obese and who have been ineffective at losing weight in other ways.

For this procedure to work, the doctor will take a balloon and place it into your stomach with the use of an endoscope. When the balloon is inside, it will be filled with a type of saline solution. During the procedure, the patients will be sedated so they will not feel anything and the whole thing will take around 20 minutes.

Those who are able to get this procedure done include those who have a BMI that is higher than 30 and who are dealing with another condition because of the weight, but who are not able to see any weight loss through the traditional means. Your doctor will be able to determine if weight loss balloons are right for your situation.

In the trials for this product, those who had treatments with the balloons were able to lose almost 7 percent of the body weight in a six month time span. This is compared to those who did not use the balloon who only lost 3.3 percent of the weight. The only issue seems to be that those who had the balloon gained a third of the weight loss back once the balloons were taken out.

This means that it is important to adapt a healthy lifestyle when you are utilizing this procedure, rather than just using it as a crutch. When you use the procedure as a crutch, you are not going to see weight loss that is permanent and will instead gain a lot of it back over time.