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August 9, 2020 Aftercare, Bad Habits, Bariatric, Strugglescauses of weight regain, cope with stress without turning to food, reducing stress after bariatric surgery, stress, stress after bariatric surgery, stress-eating

Reducing Stress after Bariatric Surgery

Stress-eating is among the most common causes of weight regain after bariatric surgery. Moreover, if it is left untreated, the issue can significantly reduce your quality of life. It’s important, then, to learn about reducing stress after bariatric surgery. “What is more dangerous than death? Mental stress.” – Anusha Waddepelli Vacation and short-term distractions can […]

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May 2, 2020 Bad Habits, Inspiration, Self Love, Strugglesgoals, How Self-Talk Makes or Breaks New Resolutions, love, negative self-talk, New Year's Resolutions, positive self-talk, relationship, self-care

How Self-Talk Makes or Breaks New Resolutions

If you’re like most people, you created a few New Year’s resolutions.  And if you’re like most people, despite your good intentions those resolutions have fallen by the wayside. But I’ll bet you aren’t aware that self-talk, your inner dialogue, influences whether or not you achieve your goals. It’s true. Your words have power, even […]

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July 17, 2019 Bad Habits, Get Fit, Struggles, Weight Lossbodyfat, Keto Diet, losing weight, low-fat diet, Mindless eating, not losing weight, personal trainer, water, weight gain, weight loss

Not Losing Weight? Read Our Top Reasons Why

Losing weight can be a long and difficult process. Not losing weight is even more difficult. It is frustrating because we feel like we’re giving it our “all” but not seeing the results! I know because I’ve been through it!  So if you’re like me and feel like you’re doing everything right but still not […]

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June 20, 2019 Bad Habits, StrugglesAA, Alcohol, anxiety, De-Stress without Food, fast food, OA, stress, stress eating, stress relief, work

How to De-Stress without Food or Alcohol

Home is our sanctuary. Or it should be. In the past I used to get home from the office and de-stress with food. Some folks replace stress eating with alcohol after bariatric surgery. But I love to come home now and know that I will relax and unwind naturally, without turning to food or alcohol. […]

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March 21, 2019 Bad Habits, Bariatric, Bariatric Diet, Strugglesartificial sweeteners, binge eating, cravings, food addiction, soda, sugar, Sugar Cravings, sweet tooth, weight gain

Sugar Cravings: 10 Ways to Beat a Sweet Tooth

Everyone knows consuming too much sugar is unhealthy. Sugar is linked to many obesity-related illnesses as well as accelerates skin aging and cellular aging. Sugar cravings also play a major role in weight gain, food addiction and binge eating. The body is able to process small amounts of sugar, a simple carbohydrate, and convert it into energy. […]

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January 26, 2019 Bad Habits, StrugglesAlcohol, bad habit, bad habits, drugs, nail biting, smoking, weight loss, Why a Positive Mindset Overcomes a Bad Habit

Why a Positive Mindset Overcomes a Bad Habit

Are you looking to break a bad habit? Unfortunately, there is no quick fix for getting out of the mindset of need. That’s why to do this, you are going to need to come into it with the mindset of ‘this is what I want, I want to stop.’ It doesn’t matter how big or […]

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November 29, 2018 Bad Habits, Bariatric, Complications, Events, StrugglesAlcohol, Alcohol abuse, Alcohol abuse after bariatric surgery, alcohol after bariatric surgery, alcoholism, Can You Drink Alcohol after Bariatric Surgery?, drinking, Getting drunk, getting sober

Alcohol after Bariatric Surgery, a Big Challenge

Can you drink alcohol after bariatric surgery? Cheryl (aka My Bariatric Life) and I know about addiction. Cheryl is open about her many years of struggle with food addiction before her gastric bypass surgery. As for me, I am a retired Addictions Counselor having worked primarily with alcoholism. I am sure that many of you […]

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November 29, 2018 Bad Habits, Obesity, Obesity-Related Illnesses, Struggles3 Health Dangers of Sitting All Day, back pain, Dangers of Sitting, Dangers of Sitting All Day, health problems, sedentary, Sitting, sitting all day, varicose veins, weight gain

3 Health Dangers of Sitting All Day

Modern life is sedentary. In fact many people spend half their lives sitting all day. It’s a big part of the working day for most people and it could be doing serious damage to our health. You wouldn’t normally think of sitting down as a particularly dangerous activity but recent research shows that there is […]

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November 23, 2018 Bad Habits, Strugglescomplaining, low self-confidence, negative, negative mindset, negative mindsets, negative thinking, negative thoughts, negativity, our own worst enemy, positive thinking, self-deprecation

Don’t Let a Negative Mindset Rule Your Life

Do you sometimes find yourself stuck in negative thinking? Or maybe your aren’t even aware of your subconscious programming — instead the people around you may comment on your negativity or self-deprecation. Sometimes, we are our own worst enemy. We don’t always need those other people to tell us that we aren’t good or clever […]

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November 14, 2018 Bad Habits, Strugglescalories, carbohydrates, diet, Diets, eat, eating, fat, food, health, How your diet can ruin your work performance, meals, metabolism, western diet

How Your Diet Can Ruin Your Work Performance

We’d all like to be able to get our work done faster, earn more money, and move up the career ladder. But it turns out that our diet can hamper progress. You’ve heard the expression, “you are what you eat.” And it turns out that there might be a degree of truth in that, not […]

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May 22, 2018 Bad Habits, Causes of Obesity, Strugglescause weight gain, overeat, weight gain, weight loss, weight loss plans, work and weight, work and weight gain, work and weight loss

Office Work and Weight Gain? You’re Not Alone

Have you considered that maybe your work is what is keeping you from losing weight? For a lot of people, what happens during the working hours lives in a separate world to their personal goals. However, it’s time to fully explore the relationship between work and weight gain, and more importantly work and real weight […]

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January 29, 2018 Bad Habits, Struggles, Weight Gainfeel hungry after quitting smoking, gain weight when quitting smoking, Quit Smoking, Quit Smoking without Weight Gain, Quitting Smoking and hunger and weight gain, quitting smoking they gain weight, weight gain after quitting smoking, You Can Quit Smoking without Weight Gain

You Can Quit Smoking without Weight Gain

One of the main challenges that we face when it comes to quitting smoking is hunger and weight gain. This hunger proves more difficult to overcome when we don’t understand its causes or how to deal with it. So, here are a couple of different contributing factors that make us feel hungry after quitting smoking […]

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January 13, 2018 Bad Habits, Struggles3 Unhealthy Habits that You Need to Break Now!, Are You Guilty of these Unhealthy Habits?, bad eating habits, bad habits, diet, eat, eating porly, healthy eating, junk food, lose weight, Unhealthy Habits

Are You Guilty of these Unhealthy Habits?

We’re all guilty of unhealthy habits. Even if you steer clear of junk food or cigarettes, there might be small aspects of your lifestyle that are contributing to a poor standard of health. You need to think of all the small things like forgetting to floss every day or being sedentary for too long at […]

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December 14, 2017 Bad Habits, Strugglesasleep, gain weight, insomnia, losing sleep, metabolism, overweight, sleep, sleeping, weight, weight and sleep, Weight and Sleep: What's Keeping You Up at Night?

Weight and Sleep: What’s Keeping You Up at Night?

Weight and sleep have a direct relationship with one another. Worse still, it’s reciprocal. Being overweight can make it a lot harder to stay asleep at night, just as losing sleep can cause a hormonal imbalance that ruins your metabolism and causes you to gain weight faster depending on what you eat. However, sleep quality […]

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June 27, 2017 Aftercare, Bad Habits, Bariatric, Family, Strugglesbariatric, bariatric dietician, bariatric patients, bariatric surgery, Habits that Ruin Weight Loss, Lori Rosenthal, my bariatric life, Sabotage Weight Loss, Two Things that Will Ruin Your Weight Loss, weight loss

Two Things that Will Ruin Your Weight Loss

Permanent weight loss is not a guarantee of bariatric surgery. You must do the work to not slip back into ingrained behaviors, habits, and ways of relating to food, as well as physical inactivity. In this 3-part interview with Lori Rosenthal, a bariatric dietician, we examine some of the healthy behaviors necessary and pitfalls to […]

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May 25, 2017 Bad Habits, Causes of Obesity, Obesity, StrugglesEffect of Television on Weight Gain, link between television and obesity, Television and Obesity, television leads to obesity, TV Leads to Obesity, Watching Television and Obesity, Watching TV Leads to Obesity

Watching Television and Obesity, Cause and Effect

Link Between Television and Obesity The link between television and obesity is irrefutable. Americans watch about four hours of television each day. Those who watch television for more than three hours each day are twice as likely to become obese as those who watch television less than one hour each day. The television is turned […]

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