Weight Loss at Newvue Plastic Surgery

We are honored to announce that we were recognized as the Best Weight Loss Center in the Seattle Times Best in the PNW People’s Choice Awards 2023. It is our privilege to provide comprehensive weight loss care to the community of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We offer a patient centered, multidisciplinary, holistic approach to weight loss which includes medical, endoscopic and surgical weight loss.

DM or call us at 425-463-9884 to start your journey to better health today!

Super excited and super proud to announce that our program, Newvue Weight Loss Services, achieved accreditation from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program®.
See the press release below.

"Newvue meets all criteria as a MBSAQIP-Accredited Center, according to national quality standards established to deliver safe, high quality metabolic and bariatric patient care

Patients seeking surgical treatment for obesity and its related conditions have a high-quality choice for receiving care at a nationally accredited program that meets the highest standards for patient safety and quality in the greater Seattle area.
Brian Sung, MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Director at Newvue Weight Loss Services announced today that its bariatric surgery center has been accredited as a Comprehensive Ambulatory Surgery Center Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).
The MBSAQIP Standards, Optimal Resources for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, ensure that metabolic and bariatric patients receive multidisciplinary medical care, which improves patient outcomes and long-term success. MBSAQIP-Accredited centers offer preoperative and postoperative care designed specifically for patients with obesity.

Newvue's commitment to quality care begins with expertly trained staff and the leadership of an experienced bariatric surgeon with nationally recognized exceptional surgical outcomes and outstanding patient care. The program is tasked with continuous review of surgical data as they continue improving the structure and outcomes expertise necessary to provide safe, efficacious, and high-quality care to all metabolic and bariatric patients. support patients with obesity."
Many thanks to all that made this possible especially our staff and, most of all, our wonderful patients!

Insurance companies have been using antiquated and outdated criteria from 1991 to determine who is eligible for life changing and life saving Bariatric surgery. In fact if you actually go on the NIH website and look up the 1991 consensus it actually says some if not all the data used is outdated and/or outright WRONG! Yet the insurance companies have been using this for over 30 years! There’s has been an avalanche of data to support the safety and efficacy of Bariatric surgery. And a lot of hard work and data driven thought was put into the new guidelines published by and . Hopefully this is the beginning of real change so more people have access to better health. 🤝🤞

New guidelines expand eligibility for weight loss surgery. Will insurance coverage follow? Two groups of bariatric surgeons want to expand eligibility for weight loss surgery. Whether insurance companies will agree remains to be seen.

Congratulation Kryistal on your amazing weight loss after Bariatric surgery. What an epic journey so far!

Congrats 🙌 on your 90 lb weight loss in 6 months after sleeve gastrectomy. It was such a wonderful visit and our whole clinic is inspired by how happy and healthy you are. Thanks for allowing us to be a part of your journey to better health!🤝. And thank you for sharing your thoughts on your journey so far. (See below)

“My recipe for progress and change…

➡️I was ready to change for the better
➡️Investing in you, Dr Sung! You met me where I was at, believed in me and built me up. That gave me strength to believe in myself.
➡️Support: from your staff, my coworkers and my family.
➡️A belief in something higher than myself (for me, God). Eternal perspective. Learning to better respect myself and the body I have been given.
➡️Clean lifestyle: No alcohol, coffee or to***co product, 8-9 hours of sleep most nights.
➡️Food: I followed your instructions. I weigh everything. I don’t tell myself “I can’t”. Instead, I meal prep and plan and eat with purpose. If I want something I’ll plan for it.
➡️Inspiration: I have found some good Instagram accounts run by bariatric dietitians. I’m a visual learner so “seeing” helps me tremendously.
➡️Genetics: I lean towards the Italian genetics in my family line
➡️Positivity: I try to surround myself with positive energy and filter out negatively and darkness as best I can. I’m endlessly optimistic.
I try to make my home a haven: I need a place where I can refill what’s been spent during the day. Balance.
➡️Goals: I enjoy having something to work towards.
I’m a work in progress and I’m enjoying my transformation journey and sculpting my new me. Mentally and physically.

So there you have it. A few of my helps. 😊 I look forward to our next visit. The best is yet to come.”

One of my patients gave me this cool photo for my office. She had an Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG) three months ago. Prior to the ESG she weighed 190 pounds with a BMI of 32. And I just saw her for her three month visit and she has lost 40 pounds so far! She lost 100% of her excess body weight👏 And, she just got back from a scuba diving trip in Hawaii and talked about how everything was so much easier and more fun with the weight loss.

Interesting back story as her husband had a Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy with me and has absolutely crushed it🔥. He lost 120 pounds and has maintained his weight loss for over 4 years. So she was eating similarly to him and exercising but could not lose weight. But the ESG was the key to unlocking her weight loss!

The Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty is an incisionless outpatient procedure. Using a suturing device that attaches to the end of the gastroscope, the stomach is sutured from the inside of the stomach. This reduces the volume of the stomach but more importantly delays gastric emptying which allows patients to feel full sooner and longer. And the risks are even lower than the vertical sleeve gastrectomy which is already low to begin with. Recovery is quicker and patients usually get back to their daily activities within a day.

She added a little quote on the back of the painting which I ❤️!

Check out this YouTube video! 🎥We are super honored to have Dr. Brian Sung be one of a handful of Bariatric surgeons selected to collaborate with PatientPartner. 🤝 PatientPartner is a digital healthcare solution that connects patients who are considering or about to have surgery with ‘mentors’, patients who have already had surgery. PatientPartner mentors serve as a guide and support system through the surgical process. The platform also connects patients with the best surgeon for their needs. 👨‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️
I always encourage my preoperative patients to reach out to my postoperative patients so they can have full transparency about what Bariatric surgery and life thereafter entails. It’s one thing to hear it from me as their surgeon, but it’s totally different to hear it from a patient who has been through the process and is living it. Thank you to PatientPartner and to all the mentors helping others to better health.🤜

Surgeon Spotlight | Dr. Brian Sung | Bariatric Surgery Dr. Brian Sung is a weight loss surgeon based in Bellevue, WA, and has completed more than 3,000 weight loss procedures. Dr. Sung emphasizes to his patients ...

On this have to share Michelle’s amazing weight loss. 💪She is almost 3 years after gastric bypass surgery and she is literally half the person she used be. Her highest weight was 333lbs and she currently weighs 165 lbs!🙌. Follow her weight loss journey .losing.half.herself Below is a short testimony of her experience.
“From the first time I met Dr. Brian Sung, I knew that he truly cared about me. He saw past the extra weight that I had carried all my life and saw the healthy person I was truly meant to be. With his guidance and exceptional care, I began the journey to find the me that had been trapped all those years. His professionalism was always in the forefront of our meetings, yet he always made me feel like I was his family. He genuinely cares about the well being of every single patient of his. His focus on health and personal growth for his patients is not only unmatched compared to other Bariactric Physicians but in my experience, life changing. I know they say that weightloss surgery is a tool, but if it wasn't for Dr. Brian Sung I wouldn't be where I am today. Healthy. Happy. My true self. He helped me save my own life.”

Look what arrived today! 🎁 So excited to offer the InBody 570 Body Comp scale for both our surgical and nonsurgical patients to help us create customizable, individualized weight loss plans.

➡️ Body composition analysis refers to measuring your body composition which is your muscle, fat and water. Instead of focusing on a single number on your scale, body composition analysis allows you to focus on losing fat and gaining muscle while retaining the proper amount of water. Body composition analysis is a key to tracking and maintaining weight loss.

➡️ The bathroom scale can be misleading. Weight loss is not the same as fat loss. The key to effective weight loss is losing excess body fat, not necessarily overall body weight. Instead of tracking how much you weigh, use body composition analysis to track how healthy you are.

➡️ The InBodyt 570 measures your body composition in less than 45 seconds and prints out a result sheet that lists out your body composition components, tracking your progress over time. This device shows you key components of your health like:
*️⃣Skeletal Muscle Mass
*️⃣Percent Body Fat
*️⃣Body Fat Mass
*️⃣Basal Metabolic Rate
*️⃣Visceral Fat Level

☎️ Call our office at 425-463-9883 to schedule your consultation and get your body composition analysis with the InBody 570 to help you lose weight smarter and more effectively.