More than 50 percent of Americans are overweight and looking for a solution. At last, there has been a weight-loss breakthrough that's easy and has a significant success rate. Gastric band surgery, a radical operation that reduces the available space in the stomach, is a drastic-though often highly effective-treatment that's often the last resort. It offers similar results without the risks of surgery: this psychological procedure works to convince the unconscious mind that a gastric band has been put in place, helping the body to behave as if a band were physically present-so it's easy to eat less and lose weight at last, while still feeling completely satisfied.