I am sure that I’m not the only one finding cooking 3 meals per day (and thinking about the occasional healthy snack) something of a challenge at the moment. I LOVE COOKING and yet it has tested my patience, resolve, ingenuity and stress levels as time has passed. If a full-time chef could have been[Read More]
Coping mechanisms
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I know many of you are waiting for our on-line shop to re-open after the pause during the Covid-19 crisis and we hope to restart it again soon (just as soon as we feel it is safe and are advised to do so). I also know many more are[Read More]
Life in Quarantine : 7 ways to bring back some routine and a sense of normal
Things are a bit tough and tricky at the moment aren’t they? Doesn’t matter if you’re pre-op, early-post-op, a mid-term bariatric patient or, like me a bit of a veteran post-op – we have all been handed a new set of challenges on our bariatric journey. Normal, as we knew it, is no longer[Read More]
Snack Attack? Time To Bite Back!
These stay-at-home orders, due to the virus crisis, have had some positive effects (believe it or not there have been some), but I know for the majority of WLS patients there have been some many more real negatives. It’s become a very messy time. Routines are thrown out, anxiety begins or resurfaces, food[Read More]
HEALTHY COPING TOOLS TO GET THROUGH SHELTERING AT HOME
Sheltering, shielding, self-isolating and practising social-distancing at home at the moment is TOUGH! Many emotions arise during this time that can seem overwhelming but there are a few skills and ways to handle these. Connie Stapleton, a very good friend of Bariatric Cookery, outlines some ways in which you might try to handle these[Read More]