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Stay Focused, Stay Healthy: Tips for keeping the weight off after bariatric surgery

Posted: Apr 30 in Weight Loss Blog by

Though weight loss surgery is a huge jump in the right direction, maintaining your new weight after surgery can be challenging. After bariatric surgery for weight loss, help can come from many different places, but it’s important to understand that elements of your lifestyle may need to change in order to keep off the weight you’ve lost. You should always defer to your bariatric surgeon’s judgment on your body’s needs post-surgery, but these organizational tips may help to give a crucial sense of order to your life after bariatric surgery.

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Building a Weight Loss Support Network

Posted: Apr 28 in Weight Loss Blog by

After bariatric surgery for weight loss, help from friends, family and the professional staff at your bariatric surgeon’s office may make all the difference in achieving long-term success. Losing weight with bariatric surgery can be a difficult journey, but that journey is different for each individual, so it’s important to tailor the post-surgery experience to your specific needs. Here are important people to make part of your weight loss support network and a few to leave out.

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Sugar: The Toxic Truth

Posted: Apr 26 in Weight Loss Blog by

A lot of attention lately has been directed towards new research classifying sugar as an addictive and toxic substance. Many people are left to wonder how this can be true, when so much of our diets are comprised of the sweet ingredient. The fact that about 16% of daily calorie consumption in the United States is made up of sugar is one reason the ingredient is looked to as a problem. Sugar is everywhere, and if you are not careful you may be eating much more sugar than you are aware of day after day.

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Letting Go of Business

Posted: Apr 24 in Weight Loss Blog by

It is possible to let go of the lingering feeling of business without dropping your responsibilities. For many people, this is a challenge. We are programed to feel busy. Watches on every wrist, cell phones in every pocket and lap-tops or tablets at everyone’s fingertips makes production a key factor in how we define ourselves. Being busy becomes something to hide behind, a way to tell someone gently how productive you are as you flaunt your lack of free time. Perhaps, it is time to reevaluate this system.

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Top 5 Exotic Fruit Alternatives

Posted: Apr 19 in Weight Loss Blog by

Having the same fruits every day can grow old. In order to keep up with your goals for healthy eating and weight loss it is important to keep your palate fresh and alert by switching up the everyday snack with brilliant flavors and textures that can only be delivered through sweet and juicy fruits. When you are concerned about weight loss, help keep your diet interesting by trying these top five exotic alternatives to the traditional apples and bananas that make up your daily snack.

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Pink Slime: Will the ick factor scare Americans towards a healthier diet?

Posted: Apr 17 in Weight Loss Blog by

When you hear the phrase “pink slime,” maybe it brings to mind that disgusting, supernatural river of underground goop in Ghostbusters 2, or something dumped on the head of a contestant on a Nickelodeon game show. These associations hearken back to a more innocent time, before a recent flurry of news reports about how the beef industry pads its product with “pink slime,” a disgusting name for the amalgamation of connective tissue and fat that gets treated with ammonia to kill bacteria, flash frozen, and shoved into processed beef as inexpensive filler.

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Learn to Love Your Body in 5 Ways

Posted: Apr 12 in Weight Loss Blog by

Many people seeking weight loss help often suffer from body-image issues that could potentially lead to poor choices. It is important to stay positive while taking the right steps to losing weight. Not making the right choices due to body-image issues could cause you to miss out on some great benefits certain health choices have. For example, some people with such issues avoid strength training because muscles add weight to the body. Unfortunately, it has been proven that weight training can help tone muscles, boost metabolism and improve bone health. So, don’t let body hang-ups get in the way of a healthier you—learn to love your body with these five strategies.

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Hidden Sugars in 3 Seemingly Healthy Foods

Posted: Apr 10 in Weight Loss Blog by

At first glance, many health brand food products appear to be good for you, but the fact is they may contain high amounts of hidden sugars. Today, the average American consumes 22 to 28 teaspoons of added sugar per day, which amounts to 400 empty calories. This added amount of empty calories can lead to excess weight gain and increase disease risk. You need every bit of weight loss help you can get, so watch out for these five health food items that are hiding excess sugars from you and opt for healthier choices.

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Food Addiction: National Expert Likens Overeating to Drug Addiction

Posted: Apr 05 in Weight Loss Blog by

According to the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, food could be as addictive as drugs. Though the idea of food addiction is controversial and rejected by some addiction experts, thinking about overeating in terms of drug addiction could be a useful mental tool for weight loss. Help for overeating in the future may come in the form of medications targeting the areas of the brain that control temptation, and the similarities between food and drug addiction could help develop treatments for sufferers of both.

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Control Blood Sugar with Breakfast

Posted: Apr 03 in Weight Loss Blog by

Although bariatric surgery is one of the best ways to help you control blood sugar levels, if you want to keep levels even more in control, researchers suggest eating foods at breakfast with a low glycemic index. Eating breakfast foods with a low glycemic index can help prevent a spike in blood sugar throughout the morning and after the next meal of the day. If you have recently undergone bariatric surgery, remember to adhere to the dietary guideline specific to your procedure when adding foods with a low glycemic index to your diet.

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