In the weeks and months following weight loss surgery, building a consistent fitness habit will be an important part of your weight management strategy. Immediately after surgery, you need to take time to let your body heal. Your caloric intake will be very limited for the first few stages, and
With the holiday season in full-swing and 2024 coming to a close, our never-ending to-do lists seem to grow exponentially. As our minds swirl with all the details of holiday planning, we tend to reflect on the year gone by and begin to look forward to the new year ahead.
Exercise-Yuck, No Thanks: Ever since I was little, I’ve been overweight. I just never knew it until I went to elementary school. At home, Mom & Dad were what they laughingly called, “larger than life”. My older sister was the same. By the time she was 14, I started seeing
The relationship between exercise and weight loss is well known, but the benefits of exercise go far beyond shedding pounds. Many benefits of exercise occur without the loss of a single pound. Exercise alone, without regard to weight loss, is a powerful way to improve your mental and physical well-being.
Exercising can be difficult at any size for so many different reasons. The benefits of swimming will not only make your weight loss journey a little easier... it will also provide other health benefits. Here you’ll find how swimming can help you lose weight while improving your mental and physical
Walking may be a key to losing weight, but it also offers a variety of other advantages, like stimulating creativity, enhancing heart health, and increasing balance. Another advantage that is sometimes ignored is that walking daily might help you maintain weight, particularly if you've recently lost weight. Maintaining weight reduction
I first wrote about this topic years ago for my patients in Maine. Since then, I have heard the same questions about the role of exercise time and time again from patients, coworkers, and friends. It is thus the time to revisit our good reasons to move! For many, the
Make Exercise Work for You Exercise can be an elusively practiced goal for people who are overweight and obese. Obstacles and barriers result in multiple unsuccessful attempts followed by a lack of motivation and the absence of consistent exercise practice. Ultimately, the consequence is a sedentary lifestyle. It is probably
WLS isn’t an easy choice. It can come at a high price, and there is a 50/50 chance of whether or not you’ll even be able to keep the weight off, which is a huge risk. The first year is so simple, you can barely eat, and therefore weight just
Yea, it is possible to love exercise after bariatric surgery! I specialize in exercise for a living and sometimes I dread doing it myself, but at the same time, I’ve come to love it! If exercise is something that doesn’t come naturally, how can you embrace it and come to
