The idea of a surgery to lose those unwanted pounds can be very alluring to those don’t like the results on the scale.

"Ironically, with the economic times of right now, people realize they need to take care of their health," says Lee Memorial Health System bariatric surgeon Dr. Moses Shieh. Most people are inquiring about gastric Lap-Band and gastric bypass procedures.

Dr. Shieh says the most common is the Lap-Band, which can be done on an outpatient basis. “What we do is we basically go in your belly, we insufflate your belly, and with the camera, four tiny little incisions, about the size of an inch, we enter your belly and with a camera. I put a band around the top of your stomach," explains Dr. Shieh.

Then there’s the gastric bypass which requires a hospital stay. "It's a little more invasive in that it's a little longer of a surgery. It’s more significant of an impact where we actually, instead of using a band to make the pouch smaller in the stomach, we actually go in laproscopically as well, but we actually staple off the stomach. Your actual stomach is about the size of a hard-boiled egg."

Two options that must be weighed carefully with your doctor.