Email 1 · Day 0

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: About your gastric balloon enquiry

Preview: Most people think about this for months before they ever fill out a form.

Email 2 · Day 0, 2 hours later

Sender: Mitch from Auralia

Subject: Quick favour, your gastric balloon enquiry

Preview: Mitch here. One quick thing so we can have a useful free assessment.

Email 3 · Day 1

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Gastric balloon: the doctor behind it

Preview: Almost 3,000 weight loss procedures, and your free assessment is with him.

Email 4 · Day 3

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: How the 12-month balloon actually works

Preview: Light sedation, about 20 minutes, home the same day. Here's the whole thing.

Email 5 · Day 5

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Gastric balloon: what waiting costs

Preview: It was never really about the number on the scale.

Email 6 · Day 7

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: How much weight could you lose?

Preview: Up to 20% of your body weight in the first year.

Email 7 · Day 8

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Tammy tried every diet first

Preview: Her balloon is out, and she's still losing.

Email 8 · Day 11

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Does gastric balloon weight loss last?

Preview: What happens when the balloon is gone? An honest answer.

Email 9 · Day 14

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: The balloon or weight loss medication?

Preview: Both can work. Here's how they actually differ.

Email 10 · Day 17

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Auralia: what patients say

Preview: Over 1,000 patients have reviewed Auralia.

Email 11 · Day 20

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: You've already paid for this

Preview: The programme costs less than years of trying everything else already have.

Email 12 · Day 23

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: A gastric balloon that fits around your life

Preview: Your dietitian, your classes and your team, from home.

Email 13 · Day 26

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: A gastric balloon abroad, or here?

Preview: The balloon is the same. What makes it work doesn't travel.

Email 14 · Day 29

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Nearly a month of this

Preview: You've been weighing this a while now. That's not a bad thing.

Email 15 · Day 37

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Before we recommend anything

Preview: We start by asking what you've tried, not by telling you what to do.

Email 16 · Day 44

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Why diets don't work

Preview: It was never that you didn't try hard enough.

Email 17 · Day 51

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Who you'd actually be talking to

Preview: One of Ireland's most experienced gastric balloon specialists is the one who sits down with you.

Email 18 · Day 58

Sender: Auralia Bariatric Team

Subject: Whenever you're ready

Preview: Two months on, one last note for anyone still deciding.