It comes as no surprise that the consumption of processed foods such as chips, candy bars, and the like are correlated with weight gain and obesity. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7399967/) These foods lack nutritional value and pack the calories, leading one to feel unsatisfied and often craving more. But are there other factors
Putative Causes Of Obesity: Listening to (or reading the bestsellers written by) pundits, one may easily think that the entire obesity problem can be brought down to a couple of factors – sugar-sweetened beverages, fast food, being sedentary, screen-time, – take your pick. Now, Morgan Downey, former CEO of the
What Is A Trigger Food? We all live in a loud, fast-paced world crammed full of potential triggers. Every day we receive subtle and obvious messages from media about the choices we should make and how we should be living. We can't just easily sidestep the temptations expertly propositioned by
Why I Decided to Have WLS: Before & After a Revision of Lap-Band to VSG with Maegan Growing up, I was a fit, active child. I grew up riding horses and doing gymnastics competitively. Weight became an issue for me around 10. I stopped being as active and found myself eating very unhealthy
The Dieting Debate I work with clients that have lost a lot of weight because they have had bariatric surgery. This is what I specialize in, “nutrition for post-weight loss surgery clients.” Now, if you have lost a lot of weight because you have had bariatric surgery, does this make
The Connection Between Physical and Mental Health From a young age, we associate certain foods with specific feelings. We’re all aware of the positive and negative emotions typically linked with certain foods. However, the connection between food, and physical and mental health goes much deeper than most of us realize.
While weight regain is common after bariatric surgery, there are things that you can do to protect and maintain weight loss and avoid weight regain. Success after weight loss is more than what you weigh. There are many ways to be successful beyond the scale! How to Maintain Weight Loss
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
My WLS Journey My gastric sleeve surgery took place on June 27, 2018, at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, TN, with Dr. James Ray performing the surgery. Even though my surgery was that date, my surgery experience actually started in Feb. 2018. The reason for this is that, in order
My story of tackling weight regain, I imagine, might have elements similar to many of yours. Throughout most of my life, I would lose weight, gain it back plus more, and lose it again. I was a chunky kid. My nickname in grade school was Big Butt Bonnie. I remember
