MOTHERS face many challenges as they try to regain and retain their youthful figures following childbirth. Many women experience subsequent increases in body weight because as the family grows there are more demands on her time.

It's called the ROSE Procedure, or better known as "Restorative Obesity Surgery, Endoscopic."

Basically it means for people who need a follow up treatment after gastric bypass surgery because of regaining some weight, doctors can do the procedure without ever making an incision.

Americans are getting fatter and that could create a health crisis as baby boomers begin to suffer from the health effects of being overweight.

But people of all ages are struggling with obesity.

Fifteen-year-old Maria Clemente and her father Robert are fighting fat with surgery.

"It is a real struggle to do things in general,? Robert said. “Walk up and down the street, sit in a chair, go on airplane, get on a train."

The battle of the bulge is being fought across the country and Americans are losing.

 Almost 80% of patients who undergo gastric bypass surgeries to lose weight show abnormal glucose tolerance when administered a glucose challenge. Some patients are downright hyperglycemic to the point they could be diagnosed as diabetic according to news released at the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery meeting.

THE United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, with two-thirds of Americans overweight or obese, according to an annual report.

In the past year, obesity rates rose in nearly half the 50 states and no state had a fall in the number of obese people, according to the F as in Fat report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.