We keep meeting overweight people who need help to get down to a healthy weight. Sometimes diet and exercise will just take too long and some of them are looking for a more radical solution. Here and in the States there is a technique for weight loss surgery where a band is inserted into the body, going round the stomach and making it smaller. This means the person who has the lap band really cannot eat very much food before they feel uncomfortably full. If they cannot eat as much as they did before, then they start to lose weight quickly with no hunger pangs. That is a good thing – hunger pains are horrible and I should know.