Introducing Monday Motivation
Sometimes finding the motivation and inspiration to create changes in our life can be an overwhelming task. Grabbing the trainers rather than hitting the snooze button, drinking more water during the day, eating more fruit and veg or walking that…
I’m worried that some foods will have to be omitted from my life for good after weight loss surgery…true? Are there foods to avoid after bariatric surgery? It’s important to avoid certain foods on a post-bariatric surgery diet to get…
If you have watched some extreme makeover programmes on TV, you may well have seen a few patients who have had surgery to ‘repair’ their skin after significant weight loss. This may lead you to wonder if you will experience…
Bariatric surgery is major surgery and, to varying degrees, it is normal to experience a range of symptoms. These include fatigue, nausea, vomiting, sleeplessness, surgical pain, weakness, light-headedness, gas pain and emotional ups and downs in the early days and…
Most of us pre-op had a habit of over-eating and a fixation on food as a ‘fix’. Sometimes we ate out of boredom, sometimes for comfort, often just ‘because’ and frequently because others were doing it. But post-op we need…
Social media for weight loss – It’s something of a given that a good support system is essential when you are going through weight-loss surgery but we’re often actually limited with face to face meetings of people who are going through…
We are very proud to announce the launch of a ground-breaking new weight loss surgery app which may represent the future of medical information distribution. The world’s first interactive, online personal weight loss surgery consultation application has been designed to…
It can be a tough call to stay motivated when it comes to sustained weight-loss, maintenance and your fitness goals. Many coaches recommend that one of the best ways is to have a solid network of friends, family and supporters to help you accomplish your goals. But what if your family live miles away, friends aren’t available 24/7 or your loved ones aren’t as enthusiastic or supportive as you’d like them to be?
Temporary hair loss and thinning is common after many weight-loss surgery procedures. Often this is mild but sometimes it can be more severe. The medical name for this kind of hair thinning is telogen effluvium and it can occur after…
Dumping syndrome refers to several symptoms that may occur following the surgical removal of some or all of the stomach from weight loss surgery. Symptoms, which usually present themselves after eating range from nausea to diarrhoea to fainting. This happens…
Pre-op, it’s often hard to eat healthy, calorie-controlled food with so much on offer; and especially difficult post-op when you can only eat small portions from a restricted range. However, one of the most challenging scenarios is when well-meaning family…
When we think of celebrating, many of us rejoice with food or a special tasty treat. However, when celebrating weight-loss, especially after weight loss surgery, food is definitely not the best thing to choose. Restriction in terms of portion size…
You’ve probably been thinking about your bariatric surgery for months if not years, wondering how the “new you” will feel and look and act, excited about making a major positive change in your life. And then you have the surgery….
It’s easy to feel, sometimes, that everybody else on the planet is in charge of our lives. Commercials tell us what our homes should look like, what we should eat and wear, how our children should behave. Advertisements tell us…
The answer, as is true for so many medical questions, is: it depends. It depends on the precise procedure. It depends on how healthy you were before your surgery. It depends on whether there were any complications. It depends on…
No: of course it’s not that simple. But any lifestyle change begins in the mind, and if you’re considering bariatric surgery of any kind, then there’s a lot you need to consider: Information, first and foremost. There are a number…
We live in a culture that celebrates youth and slimness, and people who aren’t young—and aren’t slim—can often feel unnoticed. But most of us manage to work through that. We are who we are; we don’t have to conform to…
Name a figure, an amount of money that you’re willing to spend so that you can lose weight, feel better, become healthy. How much is it? Here’s a chilling thought: whatever that figure is, chances are good that you’ve already…
Most determinations of whether an individual is overweight – and, if so, how overweight he or she is are based on a formula known as BMI, or Body Mass Index. What the Body Mass Index does is measure the amount…
Any kind of surgery comes with possible complications, and no surgeon is perfect. With the increase in the number of weight-loss surgeries performed every year, there are growing numbers of individuals who have experienced an unsatisfactory result from their bariatric…
We’ve all tried them. Anyone who has ever been overweight – much less obese – knows about dieting. We deprive ourselves of as much food as possible, we drink diet shakes and sign up for diet workshops, we count carbs,…
Making the decision to have any kind of surgery must be a thoughtful, informed process. There are risks that are real. Review them with your doctor as part of your decision-making process.
We’ve all learned it at some point or other in our lives: there is no magic pill we can take to fix our lives: losing weight, being smarter, enjoying professional success, finding a mate. The only way through life’s obstacles…
You’ve probably been hearing and reading a lot lately about weight loss surgery. Some people claim that it works like magic, others insist that it still takes work to reach your weight loss goals. Still, the more you read, the…
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