Not everyone is suitable for Intragastric Balloon surgery, you Body Mass Index will determine if you are overweight or obese. Candidates for obesity surgery would have a body mass index in excess of the ideal 19-25 range. If this is higher than 30 you would be considered "obese".

The best remedy for being overweight is to follow an organised exercise and diet programme. Many people spend their lives constantly changing for one diet to another to end up weighing more than the weight they started at, roughly 94% dieters regain the weight they lost on a diet when they returned to a normal diet.

If you are a severly overweight person you carry a higher risk of developing other health concerns such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, and Osteoarthritis and higher risk rates of certain forms of cancer, to mention a few.