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Eating healthy is an all-day commitment, but there is something extra important about starting the day off with a healthy breakfast. Often considered the most important meal of the day, breakfast is your chance to re-affirm your commitment to your health and wellness goals and to push yourself one step closer to reaching your weight […]

It’s a fact of life that it is difficult to make good decisions when you are hungry. This is why one of the first rules you learn when starting to fend for yourself is that you never go to the grocery store when hungry—that will simply lead to a cart full of food you didn’t […]

Weight loss surgery is a life-changing experience—but in order for it to work out the way you want and for you to reach the goals you have in your mind, you need to make the healthy diet and exercise habits a major part of your life. This means keeping up with your healthy eating strategies, […]

Ask anyone who has been successful with adopting a new diet plan and they will tell you: the hardest days of the diet are those early days. When you are first getting started with a new diet plan, every obstacle that comes up is new and frustrating. Every bit of hunger, every meal time decision, […]

Bariatric surgery is the most effective weight loss tool, but as you begin your weight loss journey you may find that weight loss surgery has the ability to change more than just your physical health. The process of losing weight, even with weight loss surgery, will require you to be open to change in many […]

Exercise is well known as a tool for improving your ability to lose weight. It helps you burn calories and tone muscles, but what else can exercise do for your body? Many people underestimate the positive health effects that exercise can have on your overall health, but the benefits don’t stop there. The truth is […]

It isn’t impossible to stick to your diet while eating out, but the habit of going out to eat a lot during your weight loss program will certainly make things more difficult for you. If you are going to eat out after weight loss surgery, you need to be prepared with healthy strategies that will […]

Reasons to eat out vary as greatly as your potential mood. You may dine out as a celebration on one day, and then the very next day choose to head out to a restaurant as a respite after a rough day at work. We dine out to honor the weekend, to have fun on holidays […]

Every day comes with its own set of challenges. This is a realization that everyone will reach at one point in their life, but it doesn’t make the challenges that arise any easier to conquer. When you set off on a journey of improving your health, those challenges can feel very steep. Many people don’t […]

For a lot of people, obesity is a life-long problem. Many adults who struggle with obesity began gaining weight as a child, and poor eating habits combined with a sedentary lifestyle followed them far into adulthood. However long you’ve struggled with obesity, weight loss surgery is an opportunity for rebirth. Every year, hundreds of thousands […]