Metabolic & bariatric care · Austin, South Austin & Cedar Park

Meet Sonny.

Sonny shares a personal NuSelf story, with the original video, photographs and full transcript.

Sonny, actual NuSelf patient
Sonny · Actual NuSelf patient

Patient accounts are presented in their own words. Individual results vary.

In Sonny’s words

Sonny


“When you lose this weight you feel so confident again that you can do anything…and that’s the biggest thing. The energy level is there and your confidence as a person and you’re ready to get back in the game!”

Weight Lost: 105 Lbs

Procedure: Gastric Bypass

would recommend Dr. Ganta and his team. He's day one to great...he just cares, he's knowledgeable, he's confident...
Sonny · Actual NuSelf patient
Read the full video transcript

My name is Sonny Cunningham. I live in Pflugerville, Texas. What I do is I own a Pepperidge farm biscuit franchise. Well I think when I went to a restaurant and I asked him for a glass of gravy and he told me it was not a beverage I think that was one of the keys that I finally figured that one out and then the other thing I was wearing a black t-shirt on the beach I just say some barbecue and went down made a few beached whale sounds and he rolled me into the surf who's Willie. I know but anyway when that happened I kind of realized it was time me going to die and I'm also a very bad diabetic and that is my main reason why I'm here.

The way I found Dr. Ganta was through my on endocrinologist and they suggested that I talked to Dr. Ganta and see what he felt. I went to Dr. Ganta's seminar and he answered a lot of questions. I did research this quite a lot online with Dr. Ganta's website but he was so highly recommended to me by other doctors including my family and the surgeon who was working on my foot suggested that I do something or I'm going to lose his sight and he said hey so when I saw Dr. Ganta and listened to him and started the process to see which operation was best for me a lap band or bypass that's what we worked on.

I had the bypass. Lap-band would not have helped me you know what I was doing because every procedure affects things differently and so you go through that process with him to find out what is the best for you and it's not something you just shoot in the dark. You go through several months and that's the key thing you've got to understand, you want to have patience, you want to really research you want to make sure that this is good for you because it's going to change your world. One time I went hiking before the surgery about a month before and I could barely make it to from the car to the campsite. I couldn't handle anything. I couldn't carry anything. I couldn't basically set in a chair just watch everybody do everything. I couldn't play with other kids. I had trouble walking. No balance. It was really bad and we went to the same camp site after the surgery I put the tent up. I can – I actually played frisbee with the kids and could walk we actually did a little bit of a hike and we call it a treasure hunt so where you go look for your stuff and I could just do it all.

I think it's really the only way to go and I'll tell you why I think when you look at all these pills and all these I forgot me billions of dollars people spend a year on this stuff versus this it is so cheap in that respect. A value if you want to use a term that it's going to work.

I would recommend Dr. Ganta and his team. It's probably a one degree. I mean he just cares. He is very knowledgeable. It's confident. And those are the things you look for but you want somebody look in the eye and tell you what your problems are on what you can do for it this is what you've got to do. And there again cookie cutter people won't do that. I'll just get in and out in and out in and out and he's not like that. I'm trying and that's probably the biggest thing I am trying to stress here is it's those things that I look might talk to somebody or see what they telling a new part mechanic versus a professional mechanic. A guy can do I can swap that out and fix it. A real mechanic will say well why do that part go bad. That's the question he asks and that's talked about he just is that way. When you get and you lose this way you feel so confident again that you can do anything I mean anything and that's the biggest thing. The energy levels there and your confidence as a person and you're ready to get back in the game.

Before & after

Sonny — actual NuSelf patient — Before and after · Individual results vary.
Sonny · Actual NuSelf patient · Before and after · Individual results vary.

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