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Expert Tips & Tricks you need for Success

Bariatric Advice
& Support

Everything you need to know about living your best post-op bariatric surgery life.

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Do you have Fatbrain?

That word? Fatbrain.

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Don't Be a Food Cheat

All giddy with excitement because you are still *loosing weight* while eating foods that you love that you know created your morbid obesity... is stupid.

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Bariatric Lessons from the 'Clean Plate Club'

Remember being part of the clean plate club? Being told not to waste food? Thought so! 

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World's Easiest Bariatric Meal - Learn to Feed Yourself!

If you don't cook, that notion has to end. After bariatric surgery you cannot rely on fast food, convenience store food, frozen food and take out.

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Hard Bariatric NO NO NO's You Might Not Want to Hear

Most Support Groups will give you a hug and tell you it is okay that you ate the potatoes & bagel with your eggs because 'you are human' and everyone makes mistakes. We are not that group.

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The 5 C's of Bariatric Regain

Bad habits and Regain start with the Five C's: Cocky, Cavalier, Combative, Complacent, and Comfortable. These are the choices that are keeping you from maintaining or getting to your goal weight.
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3 Ways to NOT Eat Cadbury Creme Eggs

Easter means one thing to sugar addicts... its the season for the Holy Grail of candy, Cadbury Creme Eggs! 

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The Truth About Bariatric Surgery

In the beginning years of Bariatric Surgery, no one knew what to expect. There were no suggestions for meals, or guidelines, no real rules, and remember that the internet barely existed 20 years ago. There were just a few living breathing examples of post ops and the one we all knew was Carnie Wilson, of Wilson Phillips, remember her?
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Top 10 Bariatric Mistakes

We asked our Facebook bariatric support group members a simple question about handling their hunger early in their first year or two. What they said will shock you! What we have to say in response is even stronger.
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Put on Your Big Girl Panties!

If you are not ready to do whatever it takes, do not have Bariatric Surgery. 

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'I didn't have weight loss surgery to live on a diet!'

After eating our way to 300 pounds and having major surgery to help fix things, we wouldn't want to inconvenience ourselves with dieting, would we?

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When Our Mind is Right, the World is Right!

'I didn't get the job because of my weight', is easier to deal with than not being promoted because 'my work wasn't the best of those being considered'.

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