Showing posts with label Surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surgery. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Summer soups - a healthy choice for weight loss surgery Dieters


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Summer is a time of abundance of locally grown vegetables at affordable prices. The heat in summer and fall in farm stands dot America's streets as local producers of berries to bring the public a large variety of fresh grown vegetables, fruits e. The people control their weight with bariatric weight loss surgery (WLS) can qualify for a stop at the soup stand for farm fresh vegetables to make healthy

A recent study by the PennsylvaniaState University shows that people who diet, a bowl of soup every day in their diet lost more weight and a healthy weight than those who do not want to enjoy their soup. A home-made nutrients as a vegetable soup- energy-density diet that is low and high in fiber and vitamins. These are "low energy", because the calories (energy) in the food industry compared to the volume of food are low. For example, a 1-cup servingvegetable stock is rarely more than 100 calories, depending on the amount of fat used in preparing the other hand, a 1-cup serving of ice cream contains 300 calories, making it a high energy density foods with little nutritional value.

The study found that the soup as an appetizer or a snack mid-morning or afternoon will fill the number want more calories in a day of rest. It is assumed that helps soup saturationbecause the fiber from vegetables slows digestion. In addition, carbohydrates from vegetables, homemade soup tends to be low glycemic and not affect the response to glucose in the same manner processed simple carbohydrates do. As a result of our metabolic process is continuous and we do not feel a power surge or drop, which is often experienced while eating simple carbohydrates.

Many patients undergoing weight loss surgery complain of "carb cravings" that consumption of a cup-1Serve the soup is an effective way to stop cravings, and feelings of the crop "head hunger". People who eat "head hunger" with simple carbohydrates tend to be processed significantly more calories without satisfying hunger to eat them. This ultimately leads to weight gain, even after weight loss surgery.

A good homemade vegetable soup can be put together quickly and takes up to a week refrigerated. Consider making soup as a series of layers, fromSavory onions and garlic. Heat a healthy unsaturated fats such as olive oil or peanut oil over medium heat. Add chopped onion and a clove of minced garlic and cook, stirring, until soft and translucent. When the cook onion and garlic, wash and cut vegetables for selected small soup. Fresh vegetables in season, and flawless. Vegetables, soup is good in fresh zucchini and summer squash, tomatoes, green beans, Carrots, beets, spinach, Chinese cabbage, onions and fresh herbs. Fill the pot with as many vegetables as you want, add the herbs in the last minutes of cooking.

For liquids with low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth Add, tomato juice, spices such as V8 vegetable juices diluted with water. Boil the vegetables and liquid until the vegetables are soft and just to combine flavors. For patients weight loss surgery, a thick> Soup is desired, more compact and offer a meal to avoid a "slider foods", the bag slipped through the stomach too quickly. Parts carefully measuring 1-cup serving and this should be eaten in 15 minutes or less. Under plenty to eat more soup to bring higher consumption and a reduced sensation.

In general, 1 cup of vegetable soup that is needed is a supply of fiber and 3 grams of protein and 15 grams of carbohydrates than healthyUse vegetable ingredients such as vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. While our food carefully weight loss surgery is to eat a diet rich in protein, freshly prepared vegetable soup is a healthy food supplement that diet. System of vegetables are known and the risk of many cancers, heart disease, stroke, and strengthen the immune system. For many people with weight loss surgery or raw salad can cause stomach upset, but most of the WLSPatients report a high tolerance for vegetable soup.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

3 Keys to Back to Basics After Weight Loss Surgery


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People who have undergone weight loss surgery and later gain weight are often told to "get back to basics" but we are seldom given more in depth directions. I was told that when I reported a weight gain to my bariatric center. Many of us have feelings of hopelessness: we are lost without a place to begin the act of losing weight again.

Over the years with much learned there is an effective way to get back to basics and make the most of our gastric bypass or gastric banding surgeries as tools in weight maintenance. In addition to following the food plan there are three key things we can do to sustain weight loss and maintain a healthy weight:

Plan Ahead - Do Not Leave it to Chance

Read, study, and understand the basics completely before you begin. Plan for five days with limited disruptions including life, work, and cyclical (menstruation). Create a meal plan for all five back to basics days and purchase the food to avoid tempting trips to the market. In advance cook a pot of hearty vegetable soup and divide into 1-cup portions. Mentally excite yourself over the opportunity to make new friends with your old pouch. Prepare for carbohydrate withdrawal by having fruit on hand or a supply of Emergen-C. Announce your plan to those who will support you and ask for their encouragement. Visualize feeling wonderful over next few days as you return to the basics. Plan to succeed and you will.

Use the 5 Day Pouch Test Journal

Please do not stop reading, I know keeping a food and exercise log is inconvenient. But it is a waste of five days if we do not make a record of what happens and learn from that record. Your journal does not need to be complicated: track your food, activity, motivation, and energy levels. Record your weight. In so doing you learn how your eating and activity affect your daily function. Identify hunger trends and also learn how, to arrest them. A food journal opens a window to personal discovery.

Get a Buddy

Do not go alone. Get support. Get a partner. Get a buddy. I am repeatedly impressed by the momentum of the buddy system when people go back to basics together. Almost like spontaneous combustion an online group will organize and return to the basics together. And people who are not doing it join to cheer along their fellow neighbors. Others report tremendous success when joined by a spouse, a friend or fellow support group member. Buddies offer support, encouragement, and accountability. Do not go alone.

Your online destination for support is: LivingAfterWLS Neighborhood.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

How to Attract Hot & Sexy Single Women Using Don's Diet


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Have you put on a few extra pounds and would like to trim down to look more attractive to the opposite sex?

Well, I've got an easy diet to follow that will melt away the pounds. It works great for me and it will work for you too! I call it, "Don's Diet."

Unfortunately some single women are not attracted to men who are overweight and have a pot-belly. Of course, it works both ways in that a lot of men are not attracted to overweight single women.

With persistence, determination, dedication and willpower, you can easily have a lean and trim body that will attract hot & sexy single women like a magnet. And you can accomplish this without knocking yourself out at the gym.

All you need to do is follow my diet, take some supplements I recommend, and walk or jog for 20-30 minutes three times a week.

Well, let's get started. First, we will start with the diet. Here's a list of the foods you are allowed to eat daily:


Campbell's Beef with Vegetables and Barley soup or Campbell's 98% Fat Free Cream of Chicken Soup.
Quaker Oaks Instant Oatmeal (Maple Brown Sugar or Plain) or Quaker Oaks Instant Grits with Butter. Both of these come in boxes with individual packets.
All the Fruit and vegetables you want to eat.
Combine lean chicken or turkey with your choice of vegetable for a meal.
For sandwiches, use extra lean ham or turkey and use mustard. Also, if you want a hamburger, buy the all vegetable patties. My favorite are called Boca Burgers. Also, be sure and use low calorie bread.
Eat healthy sandwiches using canned tuna or salmon packed in spring water. Use a low fat or fat free salad dressing for your sandwich spread.
Eat salads daily with lettuce and tomatoes and use low fat or fat free dressing.
Snack on carrots, raisins, celery, pickles, rice cakes, animal crackers, and graham crackers.
Last, but most important, drink 8 glasses of water a day - If you get bored with plain water, just make sugar-free instant lemonade, cool-aid, or ice tea.

To curb your appetite, take the Amino-Acid supplement called Phen-Cal available at your local health food store. It is completely safe to take with no side effects. It works on the chemicals in your brain to curb your cravings for food.

P.S. Consult with your doctor before taking and dietary supplements.

And the last part of the losing weight program is exercise. You will be able to lose the weight without the exercise, but you will lose a lot more weight if you do exercise. Just simply walk, jog, or use a treadmill 20-30 minutes a day, three times a week.

Well, that's it...Just follow Don's Diet and you will easily lose 2-3 pounds a week. Try it...you've got nothing to lose but weight and making yourself more attractive to all those hot & sexy single women you've been dreaming about.