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Kaye Bailey - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Kaye Bailey is an internationally recognized advocate for patients of weight loss surgery. Her vast collection of articles is widely syndicated in several languages. She is the founder and chairman of LivingAfterWLS, LLC: the parent company of the premier websites LivingAfterWLS.com and 5daypouchtest.com. The LivingAfterWLS Neighborhood, billed, "A safe haven circle of friends" is a compassion driven online community that is internationally recommended by bariatric centers as the best online resource for surgical weight ... [More]
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- After Gastric Bypass- Have I Broken My Pouch?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Does my pouch still work? Have I broken my pouch? Have I ruined my tool? These are questions many weight loss surgery post-ops find themselves asking occasionally during their journey. Perhaps it feels like we can eat more food or we know that we are eating more food. Sometimes these questions are asked when there has been a weight regain. This article presents the 5 Day Pouch Test for weight loss surgery patients to determine if their surgery still works.
- In Praise of Star Jones Reynolds - Gastric Bypass Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Star Jones Reynolds "came out" admitting she underwent gastric bypass surgery to lose weight and regain her health. This brought sneers and jeers from the "I told you so" community. But keeping weight loss surgery secret is more common than you think. Read why so many weight loss surgery patients harbor their dirty little secret.
- Is There Chocolate After Weight Loss Surgery?
[Food-and-Drink:Chocolate] If there is one food people are emotional about it is chocolate. With new research touting the health benefits of chocolate is it possible for a weight loss surgery patient to include this "guilty pleasure" in their healthy post-op diet?
- Dating After Weight Loss Surgery: A Look into a Secret Social Playground
[Relationships:Sexuality] For younger weight loss surgery patients meeting and dating someone is a great motivator to lose weight. Take a look at girls gone wild and post-op Romeos.
- Broken Sex Life? Weight Loss Surgery May Not Fix It
[Relationships:Sexuality] Studies bring hope to obese people who yearn to lose weight in an attempt to fix their broken sexual and personal relationships. In fact, many people undergo weight loss surgery with hopes of rekindling a sexual spark. But the study didn't report how many people were disappointed when weight loss did not roust about improved bedroom activity.
- Sex Is Better After Weight Loss Surgery
[Relationships:Sexuality] Many weight loss surgery patients will not admit it, but truth is they want to lose weight to improve their sex life. Read more.
- When a Parent has Weight Loss Surgery: Building Better Body Image In Our Children
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] People who undergo weight loss surgery struggle with body image even after achieving weight loss. Is it possible to use this time of mental growth to model a healthy body image for our children sparing them an adulthood of self-loathing?
- Sweets After Weight Loss Sugery: Smart Choices
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sweets are a real problem for people who have undergone gastric bypass or lap-band weight loss surgery. What are the best choices for patients who elect to include sweets in their weight loss surgery diet?
- Bananas and Walnuts: Two Essential Foods After WLS
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Bananas and walnuts are smart food choices for people who have undergone weight loss surgery.
- A Better Buffalo Chicken "Wing"
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Traditional Buffalo Chicken Wings are a health disaster for people who have undergone weight loss surgery. Here is a healthy alternative to traditional Buffalo chicken wings.
- Is "Head Hunger" a Loophole for Failure After Weight Loss Surgery?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] "Head Hunger," a popular expression to describe mental food cravings following weight loss surgery, is fast becoming an easy excuse for non-compliance to WLS rules. Ultimately gastric bypass and lap-band patients who surrender to head hunger tend to gain weight.
- Wine Reductions: A Healthy, Delicious Alternative to Gravy After WLS
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] After gastric bypass or lapband weight loss sugery some dietary adjustments need to be made to sustain long-term weight loss. By substituting wine reductions for gravy patients can reduce a significant amount of dietary fat intake.
- Are Fat-Free Products a Smart Choice After Gastric Bypass?
[Health-and-Fitness] Fat-free products are now widely available. What makes a product fat-free and how does it affect the weight loss surgery patient?
- Sugar-Free Holiday Candy Poses Hazard for WLS Patients
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Sugar-free candy, while seemingly harmless, can cause severe gas, bloating and diarrhea in gastric bypass weight loss sugery patients.
- After Gastric-Bypass: Convenient, Healthy Meatball Soups
[Food-and-Drink:Soups] Meatball soups are a great way for weight loss surgery (WLS) patients to enjoy a nutritious tasty meal with easily digestible protein. Here are two recipes to enjoy!
- WLS Healthy Holidays - Eat the Turkey!
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Holiday turkey is one food item Weight Loss Surgey patients can enjoy with abandon - here's why:
- Weight Loss Surgery Window of Opportunity: Fact or Fiction?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Window of Opportunity is a term used in the gastric bypass community to describe the phase of rapid weight loss. Does the window really exist? Does the window close on a set time schedule? Can patients effectively keep their window open?
- Holiday Pies: What Every Gastric Bypass Patient Should Know
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Cream pie, fruit pie, pumpkin and pecan pie! All part of the American holiday season. But what's really in that pie? Gastric bypass patients may be tempted to just have a taste, but read this before you bite and know what's in your pie!
- Holiday Grazing Will Cause Weight Gain, Even for Gastric Bypass Patients
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) protects patients from overeating at the meal table, but many patients find themselves gaining weight from holiday grazing.
- WLS Strategies to Avoid Holiday Eater's Remorse
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Gastric bypass patients can avoid holiday eater's remorse by applying these simple strategies to their holiday eating.
- Brunch After Weight Loss Surgery: Serve the Harvest Omelet
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Many gastric bypass weight loss surgery patients include eggs as part of their regular diet. Perfect for this time of year, this Harvest Omlet can be served as a tasty and healthy brunch dish.
- After WLS: Eggs for Dinner in the Ham and Veggie Casserole
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Many gastric bypass weight loss surgery patients include eggs as part of their regular diet. This Ham and Vegetable Torta is a delicious dinner casserole that sneaks in some extra veggies but still very high in protein.
- WLS Friendly Breakfast: Oven Scrambled Eggs
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Eggs are often considered a great source of protein for the gastric bypass patient and this recipe for Oven Scrambled Eggs simple way to prepare breakfast for the WLS friendly family.
- Gastric Bypass Perfect Protein: Take Along Egg Breakfast
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Considering the protein needs of a bariatric gastric bypass patient, the egg may well be the perfect food. Here is a great new way to fix the ubiquitous hard cooked eggs.
- After Weight Loss Surgery How is Dietary Fat Absorbed?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass weight loss surgery patients should be concerned about fat intake and fat absorption.
- How WLS Patients Defeat Ourselves: Learning to Play Ball
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As a matter of course I believe WLS people become our own worst enemies now and again – we wrap ourselves around the ball (WLS) and impede our own progress and joy in the game of living well.
- Chicken & Apricots Boost Potassium Intake for WLS Patients
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Gastric bypass weight loss surgery patients are at risk for potassium deficiency. This Chicken & Apricot creation is an outstanding recipe for the whole family. The flavors are fresh and intense and the nutritional value is terrific with about 30% daily value potassium in one normal serving.
- WLS Patients Boost Potassium Intake With Chicken & Squash Stew
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Weight loss surgery patients can benefit from including potassium rich foods in their restricted diet. This time of year a hearty Chicken Stew with Butternut Squash is just the recipe to perk-up the palate and supply great nutrients to the body. This stew from start to table takes less than an hour, and the leftovers are great.
- Potassium Deficient WLS Patients: Eat Salmon & Grapefruit
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Potassium is one of the nutrients gastric bypass patients tend to be deficient. By including certain foods in the diet WLS patients can increase their potassium intake. Try this recipe for Grapefruit-Broiled Salmon for great flavor and nutrition after weight loss surgery.
- After WLS: Tough Pill To Swallow - Tips for Taking Vitamins
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Gastric bypass patients are instructed to take vitamin supplements for their nutritional health. This can be difficult given the nature of the small stomach pouch. Read some clever tips for getting those vitamins down.
- Autumn Stews: Safe Satisfying Suppers for Weight Loss Surgery Patients
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Hearty fall stews are a great menu item for gastric bypass patients because they are moist, nutrient dense and protein packed.
- Misconceptions About Weight Loss Surgery Cause Disappointment for Patients
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As weight loss surgery becomes an increasingly popular treatment for morbid obesity misconceptions abound. Patients who undergo gastric bypass or gastric banding surgeries are often depressed and disappointed after surgery because they believed the popular misconceptions.
- Gastric Bypass Fatigue: Iron Deficiency May Be The Problem
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Female gastric bypass patients are at risk of iron deficiency. To avoid iron deficiency and the resulting loss of energy weight loss surgery patients must take an iron supplement daily.
- Gastric Bypass Dumping Syndrome: How to Avoid It
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss surgery patients who have gastric bypass can suffer from what is called dumping syndrome. The most efficient way to avoid dumping is to maintain the strict regimen practiced during bariatric infancy: follow the four rules.
- After WLS: Surgical Thigh Lift
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A surgical thigh lift after massive weight loss with gastric bypass surgery: the procedure described.
- Put Down the Popcorn! After WLS a Definite Don't
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Patients who have lost weight after gastric bypass are regaining fast and popcorn may be to blame. Read why:
- Food Police After Gastric Bypass: Coping Strategies for Unwanted Feedback
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is something about being public with weight loss surgery that makes others believe they have permission to become volunteer “Food Police” monitoring our every bite when it comes to eating after gastric bypass. We can't stop the constructive criticism of others, particularly when it comes to something as controversial as WLS. But we can arm ourselves with some effective coping skills.
- Food Police After Gastric Bypass: Why Do They Watch Us?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There is something about being public with weight loss surgery that makes others believe they have permission to become volunteer “Food Police” monitoring every mouthful when it comes to a WLS patient's eating habits. Why do they do it?
- Gastric Bypass Tool: Patient Growth Stages
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight Loss Surgery is referred to in bariatric medicine as a “tool”, only a tool to help morbidly obese regain health through massive weight loss. What is seldom mentioned is that “Tool” causes patients to experience four phases of growth: Conception, Infancy, Adolescence and Maturity.
- Gastric Bypass Complication: Gastrogastric Fistula
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] While the success rate of gastric bypass surgery is very good, complications from the weight loss surgery do occur. One of the rare complications is a gastrogastric fistula or leak in the newly reduced stomach pouch.
- After WLS: What is a Regular Eating Plan?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] After gastric bypass surgery patients who establish a regular eating plan enjoy optimum energy and good health. What is a real-life regular eating plan after WLS?
- Gastric Bypass is Easy Weight Loss: Changing Public Perception
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Losing weight is never easy. What is easy is being fat, staying fat and getting fatter. Why then is it so easy for the public to criticize gastric bypass and what can patients do to change the perception?
- Gastric Bypass: The Easy Way Out of Fat Land - Right?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In general gastric bypass surgery is perceived as the "easy way out" from morbid obesity. Why does the public see it this way?
- Gastric Bypass: Remembering Surgery 6 Years Later
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Marking the 6-year anniversary of having gastric bypass surgery one woman remembers the day that transformed her life forever.
- Blueberries: Healthy and Easy on the Tummy After WLS
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Blueberries, in season now, are healthy and well tolerated by patients who've had gastric bypass weight loss surgery.
- Female Infertility and Morbid Obesity: The Gastric Bypass Solution
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Obesity has a strong association with female infertility. Recent studies indicate that previously infertile women who undergo gastric bypass surgery and lose massive weight are then able to conceive and deliver healthy babies.
- Morbidly Obese and Suffering Pregnancy Complications? Consider Gastric Bypass
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Obese and morbidly obese women suffer a high rate of pregnancy complications. Studies indicate women who lose weight with gastric bypass surgery are less likely to have complications in pregnancy.
- Gastric Bypass Patients Should Include Tomatoes in Their Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] After weight loss surgery it is important to include as many healthy foods in our diet as possible while still respecting the the restrictive nature gastric bypass system. One of the foods that many patients report having a high tolerance for is tomatoes.
- Gastric Bypass Comedian: The Jessica Fischer Story Reviewed
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] Jessica Fischer was a successful 300-lb stand up comic who looked obesity square in the face and laughed on stage in New York City. Then she underwent gastric bypass surgery, lost half of her body weight and suddenly she wasn’t so funny. A review of the DVD "What's So Funny?" The Jessica Fischer story.
- Doubts About Gastric Bypass? One Woman's Final Effort to Lose Weight Without Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One extraordinary LivingAfterWLS community member was jumping through the pre-surgical hoops to be approved for gastric bypass surgery. During the approval process she asked herself, “"Did you really give it your all, Kelly? Or are you escaping and doing this because you are weak?"
- After Gastric Bypass: Pass the Water, Hold the Ice
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss surgery patients report feeling cold and should avoid iced beverages.
- After WLS: Silica Vitamin Helps Slow Hair Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Hair-Loss] Hair loss usually occurs in the fourth of fifth month following weight loss surgery. Many patients report favorable results from taking a silica tablet.
- After Gastric Bypass: Some Tough Love on Grieving Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] New gastric bypass patients say they miss food, they grieve the loss of food, they yearn for their old foods. These very foods a patient grieves for are the same ones caused morbid obesity.
- Gastric Bypass Patients Resent Normal Eaters
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In the early weeks after having weight loss surgery almost all patients report resenting normal eaters. This resentment has caused disputes among married couples and families.
- Gaining Weight After Gastric Bypass? Bad Snacks May be the Cause
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass patients who find themselves regaining weight are probably snacking on high calorie, high carbohydrate processed foods.
- Avoid Weight Gain After WLS: Learn the Difference Between Snacking and Grazing
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When weight loss surgery pateints engage in snacking and grazing they are able to eat around the gastric bypass system and this results in weight gain.
- After WLS Patients Must Give-up Coffee, Tea, Soda and Alcohol to Sustain Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric-bypass patients must drink lots water. Other beverages including coffee, tea, milk, soft drinks and alcohol are forbidden.
- Gastric Bypass Patients Succeed Eating High Protein Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The first rule for successful weight loss and weight maintenance after Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) is Protein First – that means eating protein for three daily meals, and protein must be 50 percent of food intake.
- Celebrating "Little Clothes" After Gastric Bypass Weight Loss
[Self-Improvement] After massive weight loss with gastric bypass men and women alike celebrate their new "little clothes."
- Conventional Dieting Wisdom That Works for WLS Patients
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In many cases conventional dieting wisdom simply doesn’t work for gastric bypass weight loss surgery patients. However, some rules can work in concert with the gastric bypass as patients adopt a healthier lifestyle and more rational respect for food.
- After WLS: How To Avoid Mourning The Loss of Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] After gastric bypass surgery many patients report grieving for the foods they once loved, the foods that caused obesity. Here are some helpful hints to get past mourning for food and get on with living.
- Lost Weight with Gastric Bypass? Hints for Great After Pictures
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Look great in pictures after losing massive weight with gastric bypass surgery. Three useful hints.
- Successful WLS Patients Make Right Their Nutritional Wellness
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass patients who make informed nutritional choices have tremendous success in long-term weight maintenance following massive weight loss. Weight loss surgery patients who don't bother with nutrition most always regain weight and suffer from poor nutritional health. Learn to succeed by making wise food choices.
- Making the Food Pyramid Work After Weight Loss Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass surgery changes the rules for eating healthy and well. But it is possible to use the USDA Food Pyramid as a guide for healthy eating and good nutrition after weight loss surgery.
- Avoiding Nutritionally Deficient Foods After Gastric Bypass
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The restrictive and malabsorptive nature of the gastric bypass system necessitates patients avoid nutrionally void foods. Learn to recognize them and why partaking of them results in illness and weight gain.
- Fish! It's What's For Dinner After Gastric Bypass
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The after weight loss surgery must be rich of protein rich low volume foods. Topping the list is fish and seafood. Here are some quick tips for preparing fish to satiate the gastric bypass patient.
- Snacking, Fear, Greed and the Gastric Bypass Tool
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many gastric bypass patients find themselves regaining weight. Snacking is the number one problem. The emotions of fear and greed play a key role in snacking behavior and correcting the behavior.
- WLS Patients Feeling Gassy & Bloated? Sugar Alcohol May Be To Blame
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Sugar intake is a real concern for people who’ve had gastric bypass, in fact most patients fear sugar. Many patients turn to foods sweetened with sugar alcohols. While sugar alcohols are low in calories and slow to convert to glucose, the down side is they can cause gas, bloating and diarrhea.
- The Rumbly-Grumbly Tummy After Gastric Bypass
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] After gastric bypass surgery most of the stomach is separated and inactive from the food pouch. Why does it still grumble?
- Why Do Gastric Bypass Patients Get Sleepy After Eating?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss surgery patients get sleepy after eating because of a rapid rise in blood sugar and a surge in insulin production due to the bypassed system. Learn how to eat to beat it.
- Men & Gastric Bypass Surgery: Is There a Social Stigma?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Why are so few men having gastric bypass weight loss surgery? It’s been my experience that obese men, like obese women, are ashamed of being fat, ashamed of failing to lose weight and ashamed to take the last-resort surgical option for weight loss. And unlike women, men don’t cluster to talk about their “feelings” or the shame and self-loathing that accompanies obesity. Not surprisingly, many men feel very alone in their battle of the bulge.
- Men At Risk of Iron Toxicity if They Supplement After WLS
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Men are at risk of iron toxicity if they supplement their diet with iron. While nutritional concerns apply to both genders after gastric bypass weight loss surgery one thing differs: women must supplement iron, and men must not supplement iron.
- Signature Lines on Weight Loss Websites
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Signature lines that show weight loss statistics - why I exchanged mine in favor of a new motto.
- The Public Stoning of Gastric Bypass Patients: When Things Get Ugly
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What happens when an online diet community fails to support one of their own members who undergoes gastric bypass weight loss surgery?
- WLS Patients Take Too Long to Order Food: What's That About?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Families who dine out with their loved ones who’ve had gastric bypass surgery often complain the patient takes an unusually long time to order food. There are a number of reasons gastric bypass patients are indecisive when ordering a meal at a restaurant.
- Female Tummy Tuck After Massive Weight Loss with Gastric Bypass
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] After massive weight loss with gastric bypass weight loss surgery many patients are left with unattractive and uncomfortable aprons of abdominal skin. In most cases a tummy tuck is the only way to resolve the problem.
- Female Breast Reconstruction After Weight Loss Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] After massive weight loss from gastric bypass surgery many female patients require breast reconstruction surgery.
- Self-Sabotage Snacking After Gastric Bypass Surgery: Why Do We Do It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Snacking is the single biggest problem for people after having gastric bypass – the problem being we snack on unhealthy items, we sabotage our weight loss or weight maintenance and we spiral back into the self-loathing that is so much an emotional part of morbid obesity. Why do we do it?
- After WLS: How Much Weight Have You Lost?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Patients who achieve massive weight loss with gastric bypass surgery are relentlessly questioned, "How much weight have you lost?" Do you have to answer that question?
- Pushing Gastric Bypass: When to Talk, When to Keep Quiet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The desire to share our stories - to make converts to the bariatric persuasion - is sincere and well intentioned. But just like the recovered addict or the new believer, we must tread lightly when it comes to proselytizing this new wonderful way of life. First, we cannot assume that every obese person we meet is in a place where they wish to hear about our weight loss success.
- Magnesium Deficiency Causes Personality Change and WLS Patients are at Risk
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Gastric bypass patients are at risk for nutritional deficiency, including magnesium deficiency. Magnesium deficiency can cause personality change and hyper-sensitivity to sound.
- WLS Patients Report Frequent Dizziness: What Causes It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many gastric bypass patients report frequent spells of dizziness. Research indicates a state of chemical imbalance can lead to temporary bouts of dizziness. When a bariatric patient feels dizzy it could very well be related to the restricted diet.
- Running from the Fat Monster after Gastric Bypass
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many patients of gastric bypass report feeling fearful of succeeding at weight loss after a lifetime of failed diet attempts. In most cases, the fear of success subsides as a patient reaches goal weight and becomes comfortable in their new body. About that time the Fat Monster shows up to scare the hell out of patients.
- Gastric Bypass Friendly Eating: Cantaloupe and Melons
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many gastric bypass patients report melon to be one of the easiest of fruits to enjoy after surgery. Melons are generally low in natural sugar, ripe on flavor and easily digestible. They are rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Potassium, Vitamin B6, folate and dietary fiber.
- After WLS: Goodbye Self-Loathing! Hello Self-Loving!
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many gastric bypass patients report hyper-judging their bodies after weight loss; it seems the thinner we get the more judgmental we are of our bodies.
- Bat-Wings: The Dreaded Hanging Arm Skin After WLS
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One residue of massive weight loss is the dreaded “bat-wings”. Three measures can be taken to eliminate bat-wings after massive weight loss with gastric bypass sugery.
- Myth: Gastric Bypass Patients Can Never Be Nutritionally Healthy
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It is a mistaken notion that weight loss surgery patients cannot lead a nutritionally sound life. The assumption is due to the restrictive and malabsorptive nature of the surgery it is impossible to eat a nutritionally sound diet. However, when healthy food choices are combined with a solid vitamin and mineral supplement program bariatric patients do enjoy sound nutritional health.
- 3 Steps Gastric Bypass Patients Can Take to Avoid Calcium Deficiency
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass patients are at risk of calcium deficiency. Without supplementation they are ultimately at risk for osteoporosis. Three steps can be taken to avoid calcium deficiency.
- Even Gastric Bypass Patients Hit Weight Loss Plateaus
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Public perception is that gastric bypass patients lose weight effortlessly and non-stop. In fact, many weight loss surgery patients experience a plateau during the phase of rapid weight loss. Understanding a weight loss plateau is the first step to beating it.
- Massive Weight Loss Causes "Turkey Waddle" for WLS Patients
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Following massive weight loss with gastric bypass surgery patients are often left with a "Turkey Waddle" neck: saggy crepey skin. There are surgical and holistic measures that one can take to reduce the appearance of the saggy wrinkly neck.
- After WLS: Walking for Wellness
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Step for step, mile for mile, walking is the best cardiovascular activity you can include as part of your weight loss surgery success story. Walking is easy, accessible, inexpensive, individual and effective. It is the gold-star sport for real people with real lives!
- Dropping Weight Too Fast After Gastric Bypass: What If I lose Too Much?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is so consistent and rapid after gastric bypass surgery many patients begin to fear they may become emaciated. When patients are following the rules of weight loss surgery the body will stabilize at an appropriate weight, even as the patient continues with low-caloric food intake.
- Lost Weight with Gastric Bypass & Now You're Regaining - Fix It Fast!
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] About the third year after gastric bypass we get hungry. And we eat more. And weight starts to creep back on. In the worst case a patient regains so much weight a revision surgery is required to again reduce the stomach and facilitate weight loss. In the best case, the patient catches the problem early and reverses the trend.
- What Vitamin Supplement is Best for Gastric Bypass Patients
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] In the choice rich world of vitamin supplements it's easy to get lost. Gastric bypass patients are at risk of nutritional deficiency if they do not take vitamin and mineral supplements. Here is a simple guide for selecting the best supplement.
- Children of Gastric Bypass Patients at Risk for Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Perhaps an unexpected challenge parents who have undergone gastric bypass face is seeing a child develop an eating disorder that may be exacerbated by the parent's dieting habits. Children of chronic dieters are at risk of eating disorders.
- What is "Back to Normal" After Gastric Bypass Surgery?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It is common for new WLS patients to ask, “How soon after surgery will I get back to normal?” Patients who are must successful redefine what "normal" is.
- Gastric Bypass Patients at Risk for Stomach Blockage: How to Avoid This
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] After gastric bypass the outlet from the stomach to the small intestine is roughly the size of a woman's little finger. This outlet can become blocked when foods are eaten quickly or poorly chewed.
- When a Parent has WLS: What to Tell Our Chubby Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the most painful things about obesity is we seem to get it from our parents and pass it along to our children. When a parent loses weight with gastric bypass surgery children, particularly overweight children, can feel betrayed and resentful. Parents feel guilty and frustrated trying to solve the obesity crisis in their own homes.
- Vitamin B-Complex: Gastric Bypass Patients Must Supplement
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] The malabsorptive nature of the gastric bypass system prohibits adequate amounts of B-complex vitamins from food sources from entering the body of weight loss surgery patients. Annual blood tests indicate that patients who do not supplement their diet with B-Complex Vitamins are deficient.
- Myth: Gastric Bypass Patients Don't Need to Exercise to Lose Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gastric bypass patients who do not use the time of rapid weight loss to incorporate exercise into their lifestyle are doing themselves a grave disservice. The most effective way to heal the body from the ravages of obesity is to exercise. The body is a magnificent machine – given proper nutrition and physical motion it will rebuild its broken framework.
- Fatigue After WLS: Iron Deficiency May Be the Cause
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Gastric bypass patients are at risk of iron deficiency because iron found in meat, poultry and fish is normally absorbed by the duodenum and small intestines. The nature of the bypassed system prevents adequate iron from foods from being absorbed. To avoid iron deficiency and the resulting loss of energy patients must take an iron supplement daily.
- Dumping Syndrome: The Dirty Secret Gastric Bypass Patients Keep
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Dumping Syndrome is a state of chemical imbalance resulting in panic, sweats, cramping and disorientation. Gastric bypass patients are vulnerable to dumping when they eat the wrong foods. Adherence to a specific diet can reduce incidence of dumping in weight loss surgery patients.
- Body Dysmorphia: Mind Games After Gastric Bypass Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Maybe you’ve heard about body dysmorphia – it’s a mental image many victims of anorexia nervosa have that tells them they look fat, even when they are emaciated. Bariatric patients can suffer from body dysmorphia as well.
- Panic After WLS: I'm Succeeding at Weight Loss: Now What?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The fear of success arises in patients when they realize a genuine change is occurring and they are moving forward with their life. To have gastric bypass surgery is to pursue an allusive dream that is now being realized – many patients have dreamed all of their lives of successfully losing weight. This time the miracle is working and the pounds are melting away. Panic occurs when patients experience successful weight loss.
- Is a Healthy Pregnancy Possible After Gastric Bypass Surgery?
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] When a woman in the child bearing years undergoes gastric bypass surgery to lose weight one of the first things she will hear from the nay-sayers is that after surgery she cannot have a healthy pregnancy because of presumed nutritional deficiencies. The contrary is true. Morbid obesity results in a high rate of complicated pregnancies and a high rate of miscarriage. Women who become pregnant after achieving weight loss with gastric bypass generally have lower risk pregnancies than morbidly obese women.
- I'm Freezing! Why Gastric Bypass Causes Patients to be Cold
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] People who experience the massive weight loss associated with weight loss surgery experience feeling cold for two reasons: loss of insulation and less energy generation.
- Gastric Bypass Causes Hair Loss: Can It Be Avoided?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Hair loss is a transient effect of gastric bypass surgery, usually occuring during the fourth or fifth month after surgery. During this phase hair loss is dramatic, often patients find clumps of hair on the shower floor. Remaining hair becomes drab and lifeless. Vitamin supplementation can help resolve and stablize hair loss after weight loss surgery.
- Anger: The Unexpected Emotion After Gastric Bypass Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Most gastric bypass patients experience anger as they lose weight. Most of our anger is about how obesity caused us to be self-loathing: about learning to hate ourselves – since childhood – because of our obesity. We are angry for blaming ourselves for lack of control that caused obesity, we are angry at others who blamed us.
- Fat Lady in a Thin Body: WLS Patients Feel Like Imposters
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Every weight loss surgery patient I’ve met said they at sometime during the weight loss experience felt like a fraud. A fraud is someone who pretends to be what they are not, an imposter. Given this definition, of course we feel like a fraud! Almost overnight we become the exact opposite of what we have been for many years. We are in fact a fat person masquerading in a thin body. Of course we feel like a fraud!
- Secrets of Gastric Bypass Surgery: Lose Weight Without Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There’s more to gastric bypass than surgery and rapid massive weight loss. Patients who undergo weight loss surgery (WLS) sign-up for a lifetime of rigid behaviors to guarantee their long-term success. Just imagine: If you knew what those behaviors were, could you lose the weight and keep it off without surgery?
- Gastric Bypass Myth - All Patients Stretch their Stomachs and Regain Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss surgery patients who regain weight are snacking. The common belief is patients stretch their stomach to pre-surgical size; this is not possible. Snacking, which is contrary to post-surgical instructions from bariatric centers, causes weight regain.
- Weight Loss Surgery: Successful Patients Embrace Four Stages of Growth
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Successful gastric bypass patients follow four rules through four phases of growth to reach their goal weight and maintain it. While weight loss surgery may be viewed as a quick fix, patients actually bear great responsibility in the success of their long-term health.
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