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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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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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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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Finding and Believing in Positive Emotional Energy

Posted: Mar 26 in Weight Loss Blog by

While most people associate feeling tired with a physical cause, such as lack of sleep or a developing cold, more often than not our feeling of fatigue is actually the result of low emotional energy. As much as we’d rather not admit it, taking care of our emotional self is usually last on our list [...]

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Stop Negativity in its Tracks

Posted: Mar 15 in Weight Loss Blog by

There are certain people who are more perceptive than others. While this can sometimes feel like an advantage, the constant perception of others feelings can become much more overwhelming than occasional bouts of empathy for a loved one. For certain people, anxiety, nervousness and even depression seep into them as if they are a sponge. [...]

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Laughter Can Decrease Stress – But Not Always

Posted: Mar 08 in Weight Loss Blog by

Stress is a major issue for so many people. It can be caused by everything from issues at work and financial issues to problems with personal relationships and more. Long-term stress can lead to a variety of health issues including depression, heart disease, obesity, ulcers, anxiety disorders, cancer, and more. Even short-term stress can cause [...]

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Moving From Dreams to Reality

Posted: Feb 23 in Weight Loss Blog by

As we age, many of us often begin to feel as though time is slipping through our hands. We look back at the dreams and hopes that we held as a child, the ambition we set off with into our career and the passion we started our families with, and all too often focus on [...]

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Healthy Habits to Follow on a Budget

Posted: Jan 04 in Weight Loss Blog by

All too often it seems that healthy habits come with a hefty price tag. While organic and health food stores cost a few extra dollars that many people cannot spare, there are other options for those that are trying to develop healthier habits without breaking the bank. Here are a few tips that you can [...]

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Lose Weight by Avoiding Mid-Morning Snacks

Posted: Jan 02 in Weight Loss Blog by

There are certain rules to weight loss that most people know by heart. If you are considering weight loss surgery in Naples, then chances are you have tried following every one of these rules, and a handful of other tactics as well. Eating a healthy breakfast and avoiding fattening snacks are two of these incredibly [...]

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