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]
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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]
Snacking & Grazing – You Can Fill A Bath With A Dripping or Running Tap!
ARE YOUR CRAVINGS, SNACKING AND GRAZING HABITS SCUPPERING YOUR WEIGHT-LOSS GOALS POST-OP? Grazing is the consistent, day-long consumption of low-value food items – in other words they are unplanned snacking. You know the kind of thing – finishing your child’s breakfast cereal; having a biscuit every time you make a hot drink; eating[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]
5 Red Flags To Look Out For Post-WLS!
Is it the time of year or am I just a little more sensitive to the pleas for help that have been coming my way? Some patients have written to me to ask for help since they’re struggling big time; others have expressed doubts that their surgery is still working for them (and there’s more[Read More]