Weight-loss doctors say a third of the people in Hamilton County are obese.Now, doctors are using a new procedure to help people lose weight without surgery.Jerri Ragland says she's ready to get her body back.Watch this story"When you're overweight and you've been small in the past, you just feel really bad about yourself. I feel like my husband doesn't look at me the same way. I'm ready to get it back,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Ragland said.Ragland said she's tried for years to drop the extra pounds.So when she heard about the Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment, she jumped at the chance to be the first patient in Ohio to have the procedure done."I have degenerative disc disease, so the extra weight is very painful,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Ragland said.Ragland underwent a treatment called Orbera intragastric balloon at the JourneyLite office in Evendale.A balloon is inserted through the mouth and down to the stomach.It's inflated with saline and left in the stomach for six months."So it's going to be about the size of a grapefruit,바카라 게임 웹사이트� explained Dr. Curry, who performed the treatment.Curry completed the procedure in about 15 minutes."In clinical trials for Orbera, the average weight loss was 40 percent of excess body weight. It came out to an actual pound amount of 22 pounds of an average weight loss,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Curry said.Data: Ohio's most obese counties Curry said the procedure is designed to help patients on the border of obesity before their weight causes major health problems."In the past, many of our patients would come in interested in surgery and they don't weigh enough to have the operation, so they have to wait until they gain more weight and get sicker and have diabetes before they can have weight-loss surgery,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Curry said.Another advantage is patients can schedule the surgery in a few weeks, if they're in good health.The Orbera balloon procedure costs $6,000.Curry says it's not covered by insurance right now, but that could change within a few years.