Posted - December 4, 2012

Slip ups and Weight Gain after Weight Loss Surgery

About 80 percent of people who get sleeve gastrectomy surgery or gastric bypass in Dallas are successful at losing weight and keeping their weight off long term. But what about the other 20 percent? What can you do to ensure that you are part of the success group, and not part of the group left searching for more ways to lose weight? Learn More
Posted - November 26, 2012

At Home with Weight Loss

After weight loss surgery, the Dallas area will have just as many unhealthy temptations as it did before. Though you now have the tools to make your weight loss dreams a reality, your environment can have a big influence on your habits, and this can both help and hurt your progress. Learn More
Posted - November 20, 2012

Words of Wisdom

Do you have a favorite quote? This is a question you may stumble across when creating your Facebook profile, but it’s also a valuable one to ask after bariatric surgery. Though quotes may not seem like much at first glance, their complexities become clearer as we begin to digest and understand them. The right quotes can teach us a great deal about the human experience and even suggest behaviors for us to emulate and aspire to. Learn More
Posted - November 6, 2012

Get Slim at Your Gym

Where do you work out? If you’ve been taking advantage of the beautiful fall weather in Dallas, then you might be spending your workouts at a local park or outside in your neighborhood. Others may prefer sticking to the comfort of home, burning calories with a fitness DVD or at-home exercise equipment. Learn More
Posted - August 29, 2012

Achieving Weight Loss with a Beginner’s mind

You should strive for constant learning and improvement after a weight loss surgery like sleeve gastrectomy. It’s rare, if not impossible, for us to know everything there is to know about a single subject, even in our field of expertise. Though you may devote years to improving your lifestyle after weight loss surgery, there will always be more ways to improve and enrich your life with healthy habits. Learn More
Posted - August 22, 2012

The Firm Foundation of Yoga

Of course we are talking about yoga, which is one of the world’s most enduring workouts for many reasons. With its gentle, non-aerobic movements and practices that appeal to many different skill levels, yoga can help just about anyone, anywhere build up strength, flexibility and balance. These attributes may help it meet your bariatric surgeon’s approval as a weight loss workout, but one other factor makes yoga especially beneficial for weight loss: it has a calming, meditative effect on the mind. Learn More
Posted - August 15, 2012

The Worry-Free Weigh-In

Though many of us think about weight loss in terms of numbers, your body is not a calculator, computer or checking account. We may count calories, exercise minutes and the days we’ve been on a diet plan, but the scale is rarely a good indicator of the weight that your bariatric surgeon and weight loss surgery have helped you lose. Learn More
Posted - July 9, 2012

Embracing Change in Your Life

After struggling with your weight for a large chunk of your life, deciding to have weight loss surgery is one big step towards lifelong change. Making change in your life transpires one step at a time. Since you will be taking a whole lot of steps as you progress on your weight loss journey, why not take the opportunity to give your life a ‘you’ make-over? Learn More
Posted - June 22, 2012

Temptation in Aisle 3

Despite our best intentions when we head to the grocery store, temptation lurks down every aisle. Though you may have a plan in mind and a list prepared as you start to push that empty cart, you may find it quickly filling up with the kinds of foods that your weight loss surgeon would frown upon, justifying your decisions with every excuse from A to Z. Learn More
Posted - June 15, 2012

Half the Food and Half the Price

Eating out is hard to do in the first place. The ingredients are hard to verify, the calorie counts are almost always skewed and the portions can often feed three. Over the past 50 years everything from the size of a piece of pizza to a glass of soda has doubled if not tripled in both size and calorie content. After bariatric surgery, it can be difficult to consume a whole proper portion, let alone a plate of restaurant food—and that is a good thing. Learn More

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