Remembering Why You Have Had Or Are Having Weight Loss Surgery Do you remember the time before you had weight loss surgery? Think back — how did you feel moving in your body doing every day routine tasks? How was your energy level? How fulfilled did you feel in your
Editor’s Note: This article by Dr. Arya M. Sharma is part five of a five part series, “Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail”. Links to the previous articles are located at the bottom of the page. Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail (Part 5) So, just to wind down this series,
Editor’s Note: This article by Dr. Arya M. Sharma is part four of a five part series, “Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail”. Links to parts one, two, and three can be found at the bottom of the page. Today’s post is not so much about a complication that arises when
Editor’s Note: This article by Dr. Arya M. Sharma is part three of a five part series, “Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail”. Part one can be found here and part two here. Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail (Part 3) Bariatric surgery is certainly life changing – for better or for
Plateaus 101 You’re eating on track by making healthy food choices, staying active with regular exercise, doing everything right and you’re regularly losing weight. Then...Bam, it happens! Your weight loss stalls and you’re stuck on a plateau. Plateaus are one of the most frustrating occurrences while losing weight. Although they
As it happens every year, this morning I was standing in line at the grocery store and happened upon this: It’s People magazine’s annual (I believe) issue highlighting dramatic weight loss stories. As per usual, there are before pictures of overweight people and then after pictures, usually of women in
Editor’s Note: This article by Dr. Arya M. Sharma is part two of a five part series, “Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail”. ObesityHelp will publish the entire series throughout the month of August. Part one can be found here. Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail (Part 2) Perhaps the short
We’ve all seen them. Those amazing weight loss stories on the covers of magazines or on talk shows. And there’s always a before and after photo. On the left is usually a particularly unflattering picture of a person when they were larger. On the right is the new, shiny, confident,
One thing that we all seem to discuss when a group of us weight loss surgery patients get together is our excess skin. Where we have it, what bothers us about it, and what we plan to do about it. We pinch it, we grab it, we lift it, we
Editor’s Note: This article by Dr. Arya M. Sharma is part one of a five part series, “Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail”. ObesityHelp will publish the entire series throughout the month of August. Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail (Part 1) Last week, we looked at bariatric surgery, its risks, its
