Due to stigma and a lack of sound information on traumatic experiences, laypeople can find it especially difficult to navigate the often far-reaching effects of trauma. As a Life and Wellness Coach, Psychotherapist, and Fitness Trainer with extensive experience in crisis intervention and acute care, I have often been tasked
How Stress Can Affect Your Weight Loss Efforts? “Life happened,” is the response I hear most often when I ask, “What do you think led to your weight regain?” Upon further investigation, I learn that “life happened” is code for, “I was dealing with a lot of stress.” Stress… that
Dealing with Stress After Bariatric Surgery - It Matters! When dealing with stress after bariatric surgery, do you eat to relieve stress and feel better? Stress eating usually causes you to feel worse. We've put together helpful articles to support you dealing with stress and to avoid stress eating and manage stress in healthy
The ObesityHelp Team wishes a Happy Healthy Holidays season to all of the ObesityHelp Community members, visitors, and social media followers! We appreciate you, and we're grateful that we're making the journey together! You've worked hard all year for your weight loss, weight maintenance, health improvements, and the many other
Americans today are more stressed than ever. We face stress at work, home, in our relationships, and even from lack of sleep. Unfortunately, we are finding that chronic stress is causing a serious impact on our lives and our health. We now know that chronic stress can lead to: High
The headlines read - Stress is bad for you! Stress will make you gain weight! Stress will decrease your immune system functioning! Learn how to live a stress-free life! All of these headlines would have us believe that stress is bad and that we need to avoid it at all
If you're stressed about the Holidays, you aren't alone! It is common to be stressed about the food choices, the abundance of sugary "treats" and relationship dynamics. You can stay on track with your healthy lifestyle and combat your stress so you can enjoy the Holidays. Combat Holiday Eating Stress 12
Holidays are often a time when we run ourselves ragged. We tend to live multifaceted, over worked, rushed and exhausting lives. During the holidays it often becomes overwhelming and the very first thing to go out the window is taking the time to take care of ourselves. As WLS patients
It is 15 minutes before you are to leave work and your boss needs you to stay for a high priority project. You need to pick up the kids in 45 minutes and you were going to stop at the grocery store on the way home. Earlier in the day,
5 Reasons Why You Should Exercise We all know that exercise can help us to lose weight but there are countless other benefits to working out on a regular basis. Here are 5 good reasons why you should make fitness a focus in your life: Exercise gives you energy and
