A Post-Easter Blog! Is It Over Yet? For some (read “Me” for this) it began on Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day with all the excitement of tossing pancakes and retrieving them from the floor or dog (and conveniently forgetting how many I had already eaten). A couple of birthdays, an anniversary, a school[Read More]
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How To Break A Weight-Loss Plateau Or Stall
One of my post popular queries, and the one I constantly see on Forums from early and medium post-op patients, relates to weight-loss stalls and plateaus. Different to weight regain (which I have covered previously) this often requires a different approach to rectify or jump-start. Often the best ideas and solutions come from those who[Read More]
Weight Loss Stall Or Plateau And How To Overcome It
So you have been losing weight successfully after WLS and then all of a sudden the numbers on the scale seem to stop moving. We’re not talking about those ‘very early days’ post-op small blips where the body is simply re-calibrating, but longer term when you begin to doubt the loss will happen again. What[Read More]
What is a “Slider” Food?
To the weight loss surgery patient slider foods are the bane of good intentions and ignorance often causing dumping syndrome, weight loss plateaus, and eventually weight gain. Slider foods, to weight loss surgery patients, are soft simple processed carbohydrates of little or no nutritional value that slide right through the surgical stomach pouch[Read More]
5 Ways To Get Off A Weight-Loss Plateau
My inbox has had quite a few messages this week from early post-op patients and a few ‘old-timers’ who haven’t quite reached their ideal or chosen target weight. The queries being ‘How can I boost my weight-loss’; ‘What am I doing wrong’; and ‘Is that it?’ echo loud and clear. In almost all cases[Read More]