Tag Archive: WLS

The Heart Of ObesityHelp.com Is Our Community

January 15, 2014 · 0 comments

Making The Journey Together For 16 Years! The ObesityHelp.com community was founded in 1998 to provide support, education, and advocacy for all individuals seeking help in the fight against obesity.  This great community was built by a lot of hard work behind the scenes... but mostly, it was built by

Happy 16th Birthday ObesityHelp.com!

January 9, 2014 · 0 comments

Sixteen years ago today Eric Klein, founder of ObesityHelp, had a vision and registered the domain name that has brought so many people together and helped to save and change countless lives worldwide: ObesityHelp.com!  He wanted to create an online community where individuals who were fighting the disease of obesity

Men Do Not Seek Obesity Surgery As Soon As They Should

January 8, 2014 · 0 comments

UC Davis Study Reveals That Obese Men Are Less likely To Seek Obesity Surgery Than Obese Women   (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- Even though obesity affects women and men equally, a UC Davis study shows that obese women are four times more likely than obese men to seek weight-loss surgery. When

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Post-op Regain?

January 6, 2014 · 0 comments

 Getting Back on Track-From One Patient to Another A lot of you are familiar with my story. I had RNY Gastric Bypass on 02/12/2008. At my highest weight I was 291 lbs. I decided to have WLS, after years of procrastination, mainly for my health and my children. I am

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10 Top New Year Resolutions

December 31, 2013 · 0 comments

Happy New Year everybody!  This is the time of year where we all reflect a little bit on all that we experienced in the last year.  As for the ObesityHelp Team, we think about the many awesome people in the ObesityHelp community.  We appreciate and thank you! 10 Top New Year

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Staying And Getting Back On Track After The Holidays

December 28, 2013 · 0 comments

Happy New Year, New You! This is a great time of year. The commercials, network news shows and other media are geared toward losing weight, eating healthy and exercising. Everyone is trying to sell their product or services just in time for the big resolution day of January 1st. The

From Obesity to Obesity Platform

December 18, 2013 · 0 comments

After WLS Success...Kearsten's Fight Against Obesity Continues On Although always a very active child, Kearsten Weeks had been fighting obesity all of her life.   Having been surrounded by family members who were also morbidly obese, she was basically given a free "all you can eat" pass.  It was only when

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Creating Healthy Holiday Habits

December 9, 2013 · 0 comments

The best ways to enjoy your holidays are to keep in place your healthy habits that you follow the rest of the year. We are on track, practice our healthy habits that are the foundation of our weight loss surgery success all year long. We flip the calendar and there

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Making Thanksgiving Gratitude An Attitude

November 11, 2013 · 0 comments

Thanksgiving-Just One Day A Year? Ah....November. The month of turkey, ham, roast beef, stuffing, pies, and holiday shopping. Pre-operatively, many of us started planning for holiday eating in September! True, November is the month for Thanksgiving and part of Thanksgiving is food, however, it is much more. During November, our

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How to Make Healthier Food Choices

September 16, 2013 · 0 comments

What Is The Glycemic Index? The glycemic index is a numerical index that ranks carbohydrates based on their rate of glycemic response (i.e. their conversion to glucose within the human body). Glycemic index uses a scale of 0 to 100, with higher values given to foods that cause the most