In our latest FREE Bariatric Cookery Newsletter (out very, very soon – subscribe here if you don’t already), Dietitian Nichola urges you to ‘EAT COLOUR’. It’s good advice and following and eating the colours of the rainbow is a great starting point. Not only do the almost infinite number of fruits and vegetables in the[Read More]
Health and Fitness
Know Your Protein – Pick and Mix It!
Protein, when it comes to food groups, is the most talked about and discussed one for the WLS patient. Are we getting enough, the healthiest sort, can we easily get it without meat? And so on … It seems timely, at a time of lock-down, when food supplies are limited, to check this out again[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]
Plant-Based Diets and Bariatric Surgery
Is it fine to cut the meat (and more) after bariatric surgery? This was the question we posed in the last free Bariatric Cookery Newsletter (click to see here). Is it a wise move for someone who has had WLS? There are now so many varied dietary regimes and some might well be[Read More]
Losing Weight- It’s More Than Just Eating Less and Moving More
GUEST POST: Did you know that our total energy expenditure (TEE), or the amount of calories we burn each day, is not really about how much we move? It’s mainly down to the basic processes essential for life – basal metabolic rate (BMR) – which makes up around 60-80% of energy use. Then we burn some[Read More]