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
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]
US EDITION OF ‘THE BARIATRIC BIBLE’ NOW PUBLISHED!
With the challenging times that we are facing it’s hard to make a fanfare about the publication of the US edition of my bariatric cookery book ‘The Bariatric Bible’. But it has been published this last week and is now available on amazon.com (click HERE for more details). I was super excited about this development[Read More]