Family 'Bands' Together to Lose Weight ‎

Dr. Frank Scafuri, a primary care physician in Staten Island, N.Y., has been obese since childhood. Two years ago, the 5-foot, 10-inch 39-year-old weighed 360 pounds. He also had high blood pressure and diabetes.

"I couldn't live like that anymore," he said. "My ankles were hurting, plus, how am I going to tell my patients to lose weight when I have a weight issue?"

But he's not the only one in the family who struggled with weight. His younger sister, Jennifer, said she was also an obese child.

"In the sixth grade, I weighed 180 pounds," said Jennifer, a nurse practitioner at NYU Langone Medical Center. Her weight peaked at around 300.

Bariatric Surgery

After years of yo-yo dieting, Frank finally got fed up with losing weight, only to gain it all back and then some. He decided to have gastric banding surgery.

Weight Loss Surgery

He had the surgery in July 2010 and has already dropped 135 pounds. After seeing his success, Jennifer decided to have the same procedure -- followed by their younger brother and Frank's wife. Their mother will soon follow and have the surgery later this year.

Jennifer has lost 70 pounds so far, and said she hopes to lose another 30. Like her brother Frank, she did lose quite a bit of weight in the past -- 100 pounds in her early 20s -- but was unable to keep it off.

"I must have lost and gained about 10 people in my lifetime," she said.