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The REALIZE mySUCCESS Program®:

Shown to help patients lose significantly more weight*

Experts agree that to lose weight—and keep it off—weight loss surgery patients require help to adopt a new healthy lifestyle and to stay in touch with their bariatric team. That's why we created REALIZE mySUCCESS®. It's a Web-based clinical support tool designed to help you achieve and maintain a healthier weight. Only the REALIZE® Solution† for gastric banding, gastric bypass, and sleeve gastrectomy includes REALIZE mySUCCESS®.

There for you every step of the way

REALIZE mySUCCESS® was designed in consultation with bariatric surgeons, dietitians, and behavior modification specialists who identified two essential stages for success after bariatric surgery.

Stage 1: Building healthy habits over the first 18 months.
Stage 2: Staying motivated, on track, and connected with your bariatric practice over the next 18 months and beyond.

Stage 1

As you set weight loss goals with your doctor, REALIZE mySUCCESS® helps you adjust to your new lifestyle. You'll learn and practice strategies that will help cement your healthy habits—and help you achieve your healthier weight. In fact, it has been shown that REALIZE® Band patients who frequently use REALIZE mySUCCESS® lose significantly more weight.*

Excess weight loss percentage of REALIZE Band patients

Stage 2

To help you maintain your healthier weight, REALIZE mySUCCESS® keeps you connected with your bariatric team and allows your doctor to step in precisely when needed to keep you on track. You and your doctor can watch your progress and fine-tune your plan. Meanwhile, you can keep customizing your strategies and practicing your healthy habits.

Only REALIZE mySUCCESS® provides your bariatric team with updates that allow your doctor to step in precisely when needed to keep you on track. This high-level support is yet another way that the REALIZE Band differs from the LAP-BAND System and all other weight loss programs.

Developed to address the specific needs of bariatric surgery patients

REALIZE mySUCCESS® helps you:

  • Progress through the five different eating phases after surgery (from liquids to solids) with sample daily meals, staged over time
  • Adopt good eating and hydration habits, including better food choices, portion control, smaller bites, thorough chewing, and separating liquids from meals
  • Identify emotional eating triggers by allowing patients to track calorie intake by mood, setting, and planned versus unplanned meals
  • Take the proper nutritional supplements for optimum health, in accordance with the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) guidelines
  • Stay motivated and on track by setting goals and by creating personal plans, reminders, coping strategies, and support systems to achieve them

You can enroll right now!

Anyone considering bariatric surgery is invited to start using REALIZE mySUCCESS®. Before surgery, you can access features and tools to begin changing your habits and improving your health.

Only by choosing the REALIZE Solution for gastric banding, gastric bypass, or sleeve gastrectomy can you gain exclusive access to the full set of REALIZE mySUCCESS® features and tools after surgery.

Thousands of people are using REALIZE mySUCCESS® and have found it to be a valuable tool.

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Explore REALIZE mySUCCESS®

Support is at the heart of REALIZE mySUCCESS®—and goes far beyond the checklists and reminders that make up other online programs. Each section contains information and tools to help you support your new healthy lifestyle, adjust to your changing needs, and stay motivated to achieve and maintain your healthier weight.

  • myPersonalPlan helps you customize a plan that works for you to help you overcome your challenges, stay motivated, and stay on track.
    • Access tools to fine-tune your weight loss plans.
    • Learn how and when to use coping strategies.
    • Put an effective support team together so you can reach out when you need to.
  • myProgress reinforces your motivation to stay true to your plan by tracking your improvement through charts, graphs, and photos—and envisioning how you'll look when you reach your goal.
    • Review how far you've come since your surgery—or the last goal you reached.
    • Set new goals according to your schedule and expectations.
    • Print the progress summary report to see a one-page snapshot of your weight history, calorie consumption, nutrition goals, and site participation.
  • myNutrition is tailored specifically for life after bariatric surgery—and recognizes that when it comes to food, different people have different tastes and schedules.
    • Review information that will help you adjust to your new way of eating and answer questions as they come up.
    • Use proven methods to create and stay true to an eating plan personalized to your needs and tastes.
    • Explore more than 400 recipes customized for life after bariatric surgery, and find detailed information for more than 5000 foods.
    • Learn how to plan and prepare healthy, delicious meals the whole family can enjoy.
  • myExperience gives you a place to share stories, exchange tips, and learn from others using REALIZE mySUCCESS®.
    • Add your comments and opinions by answering polls and questionnaires.
    • Search frequently asked questions for answers and information on a vast range of topics.
  • myFitness provides coaching, goal-setting strategies, and tracking tools to help you get active and stay active following bariatric surgery. After all, physical activity is an essential part of achieving and maintaining weight loss.
    • Learn when and how to introduce activity into your routine.
    • Discover activities that are interesting and physically suited to your needs.
    • Safely build activity levels according to your surgeon's orders.
    • Update your activity plan and fitness goals to stay active.
    • Activate reminders to stay true to your plan.

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* Patients who frequently use REALIZE mySUCCESS® lose significantly more weight. Based on 12 months of patient-reported data from REALIZE Band patients using REALIZE mySUCCESS®. Frequent users were in the top third of patients based on frequency of entering a weight into REALIZE mySUCCESS®. Source: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., data on file.

† The REALIZE Solution combines REALIZE mySUCCESS® with the use of select surgical instruments.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION The REALIZE® Adjustable Gastric Band is used in morbidly obese adult patients for significant long-term weight loss. It may not be right for individuals with certain digestive tract conditions. All surgery presents risks. Weight, age, and medical history determine your specific risks. Ask your doctor if bariatric surgery is right for you. For more information, call 1-866-REALIZE (1-866-732-5493). Risks for all bariatric procedures

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†The REALIZE Solution combines REALIZE mySUCCESS® with the use of select Ethicon Endo-Surgery surgical instruments for bariatric surgery.