Before & After Gallery

Paige Gyurindak – daughter
I have been morbidly obese my entire life. When I was 22, I decided to make the huge life changing decision to get weight loss surgery. I was definitely scared and fearful, but I knew I had already spent the first 22 years of my life being super insecure and shy. After my weight loss surgery, my life has become entirely different. I am able to experience things I have never done before because I was too afraid to do things due to my weight. I have started traveling, found a loving boyfriend, started sharing my workouts and weight loss journey on social media, and even more. I never had any confidence, self-worth, or self-esteem, but now I have so much of each, it is hard to believe I am the same person. Everyone warned me that maybe getting surgery at a young age was not the best idea, but it was the best thing I ever did for myself. I have continued to work on myself both mentally and physically. I finally have started to make myself a priority and making the best decisions for me, rather than pleasing others. I workout with friends and my boyfriend. I find and cook new healthy recipes and share them with friends and family. I have even gotten messages from people saying that I have inspired them to start being more active and healthy as well. Being chosen to be patient of the month is full circle for me because I remember walking into Garden State Bariatrics at 380 pounds for my consultation. I saw the patient of the month in the newsletter that month and made it my goal to be patient of the month one day! Thank you so much to Garden State Bariatrics for saving my life, giving me a better quality of life and telling me that I can do it!

Juliette Gyurindak – mother
March 20, 2019 was the day I got my life back.
I consider myself a “Lifer” or one that has been severely overweight one’s entire life. At 50+ years old, and through every weight loss plan available to mankind (without any permanent success) I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that there was no hope for me at all. My weight kept climbing, my health was deteriorating and I was as miserable as miserable could be. I knew in my heart that there was not much time left for me here on this earth. I just couldn’t see a way out. After a serious discussion with my family, I decided that weight loss surgery was my last-ditch effort.
In October of 2018, I walked into Garden State Bariatrics in Toms River, only half believing that surgery would even be an option for me at that point. By the time I walked out, I actually had hope that this really might work. The entire staff was welcoming, understanding and extremely supportive from the first moment I got there. I told Dr. Yurcisin that I did not think that my body knew how to be anything else that obese. And he said…I can fix that. I was all in at that moment and will be for the rest of my life. I had the Duodenal Switch surgery and have lost 155 pounds since my surgery on March 20, 2019, the day I got my life back. Dr. Yurcisin, Michael, Julie, Brandy, Jessica and Anna are my heroes.