Alternate Expectations: A Guide to Navigating H...
The holiday season is here and it’s time for us all to quickly gain ten pounds. What? Why would I say that? I say that because it’s written all over the place. Over the next few weeks, you are going to...
View ArticleTen Tips for Battling Food (and Family) over th...
Tis the season ready or not! The holiday season can be one of the most joyful times of the year with its dazzling colors, familiar music, social gatherings, and yes, food, food and more food! For those...
View ArticleWhat obesity is doing to you!
Obesity is an epidemic that harms health and claims lives. One-third of Americans are overweight, and another third are obese. 6 percent of Americans are morbidly obese, with a BMI over 40 and...
View ArticleThe Real Way to Break Free from Overeating
Have you checked out a newsstand recently? You won’t be surprised that there are dozens and dozens of tips, plans, and miracle programs being promoted just this month to help you slim down, lose a pant...
View ArticleDifferent approaches to weight loss
If you’re like most of the population, you’ve probably tried a bunch of methods for losing weight. If you’re still searching, then you probably didn’t find one that worked for the long term. Sure,...
View ArticleEmotional Eating Solutions: How NOT to Swallow...
If you don’t address the root cause of your overeating (especially emotional eating) you’ll keep on overeating. If you stop, or gain control for awhile, it will come back. True story. Emotional eating...
View ArticleAll about the Lap-Band
History of the Lap-Band The band has a pretty long history, dating back to 1983 when a Ukrainian-born surgeon named Dr. Lubomyr Kuzmak used a non-adjustable band on his obese patients. He developed an...
View ArticlePatient compliance: what's the big deal abo...
WHAT DOES PATIENT COMPLIANCE MEAN? The term “patient compliance” is a funny one for someone like me, who in some areas of her life doesn’t have the patience required for compliance. Maybe that’s...
View ArticleKickstart 2013 in the right direction
Kickstart 2013 in the right direction We all know there are steps we could be taking to improve our health. How often when the new year ticks over do you or those around you resolve to ‘get fit’ or...
View ArticleIs the Lap-Band for You?
Risks with the Lap-Band First, let’s take a look at some of the possible risks or complications that can happen with the band. Nearly all patients get some sort of complications or side effects, but...
View Article6 Myths About the Adjustable Gastric Band
TIME TO THROW OUT SOME OLD MYTHS It’s time to throw out some old myths about the adjustable gastric band, but before we start flinging those myths around, let’s all agree on what a myth is. The...
View ArticleRestriction Riddles
RESTRICTION RIDDLES Restriction is the holy grail of bandsters, but even when you find it, it may not cooperate with you all day every day. Its fickle nature may allow you to eat one food on Tuesday...
View ArticlePlanning Your Lap-Band Surgery
You will continue to learn more about the lap-band as you do more background research. Your primary care physician should be able to refer you to a bariatric surgeon who can help you. You can also find...
View ArticleTighter Isn't Always Better
MORE, MORE, MORE Americans love MORE: more of anything and everything. More food, more fun, and (for some of us) more fill in our bands. But striving for maximum fill in the effort to achieve maximum...
View ArticleHow Much Food is Enough?
RETRAINING MY OVEREATER’S BRAIN Early and prolonged satiety (the sense of having eaten enough food for now) is the name of the band’s game, and restriction (the feelings that communicate satiety to a...
View ArticleGet Into The Green Zone
GET INTO THE GREEN ZONE Bandsters tend to obsess about finding their sweet spot** or perfect restriction, and in the process torturing themselves with the idea that weight loss won’t start until they...
View ArticleGOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL
REWARD & PUNISHMENT Yummy food rewards for good behavior, and severe punishment or deprivation for bad behavior, go back a long way in my psyche. With every good intention, my mom trained me using...
View ArticleWHAT DOES MORBID OBESITY REALLY MEAN?
Anyone who’s known me for more than 10 or 15 minutes knows that I love to laugh. I even laugh about my obesity, when otherwise I might cry. But obesity is not a laughing matter. Obesity is serious....
View ArticleWLS NITTY GRITTY
The NITTY GRITTY of WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY Nobody can predict the course or outcome of your weight loss surgery, but Im going to try anyway, starting with a simile that most of us can understand. WLS is...
View ArticleLap Banders Need an internal anti-inflammatory...
Therefore, our primary focus is to avoid food blockages and secondly learn how to manage them. To understand the top three key points that will help you avoid food blockages, get your free ebook at...
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