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My Bariatric Life

Cheryl Ann Borne, writing as My Bariatric Life, is an obesity health activist and Paleo recipe developer. She grew from a fit teen to a morbidly obese processed food junkie and couch potato on ~10 prescription medications for diabetes, celiac disease, depression, acid reflux, asthma, and hypertension. Since 2003 she’s maintained massive weight loss from gastric bypass surgery and remains free from 9 of the prescriptions. In 2013 My Bariatric Life underwent total body contouring and facial plastic surgeries to remove the last traces of her obesity. She inspires patients with outstanding resources and by sharing her long-term success in defeating obesity and its related illnesses. Today, My Bariatric Life is a size 2 down from a size 24W and living larger than ever! See My Bariatric Life’s amazing transformation video.
 
Cheryl’s passion is transforming healthcare. She has a long and successful career as a digital health strategist and change agent within the life sciences field. Cheryl holds degrees in communications and graphic design and resides in Indianapolis IN and the Princeton NJ area.
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  • Website URL: http://www.mybariatriclife.org
My Bariatric Life

Louisa Latela, LCSW, LCADC

Louisa Latela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker whose life's passion and purpose is to support people in living their Highest Good. Her work is grounded in her belief that Love is the true essence of each and every person, and that when you learn to love and accept yourself unconditionally your life becomes magical!!
 
Over the years she has guided thousands to re-connect with, listen to, and act on the promptings of their inner wisdom. She teaches people to Own their Authentic Power and be the creator of their life experience versus the victim of its circumstances. She offers both in person and telephonic individual and group counseling for persons who want to learn how to be happy independent of their life circumstances, as well as for people who struggle with issues related to life transitions, anxiety, depression, addiction, and low self esteem. She is a firm believer that life is meant to be joy filled and fun! While she counsels people with a variety of issues she has nearly 2 decades of working with people struggling with food/body/weight issues and has been facilitating a support group specifically for people who are recovering from weight loss surgery for several years.
 
Visit her website to get your free e-book "When Life Sucks Use a Straw: Tips for De-stressing During Life's Most Difficult Moments!"
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  • Website URL: http://www.liveyourhighestgood.com
Louisa Latela

Elizabeth Anderson MA, RDN, LD

Elizabeth Anderson is a private practice bariatric dietitian. She sees clients online all across the country. She loves frozen peas and dark chocolate--but not in that order.
For Bariatric Pal readers, Elizabeth's offering 50% off her video series Bariatric Reboot. Reg $199 now $99 with the promo code PAL now through 1/31/17. Find it on her website; www.crackerjacknutrition.com
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  • Blog URL: http://www.crackerjacknutrition.com/medium-alternate/
  • Website URL: http://www.crackerjacknutrition.com
Elizabeth Anderson RD

Warren L. Huberman, PhD.

Clinical Psychologist licensed in New York and New Jersey. • Clinical Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. • Affiliate Psychologist at the Langone/NYU Medical Center • Consulting Psychologist to the NYU/Langone Weight Management Program • Affiliate Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Northwell - Lenox Hill Hospital. • Maintains a private practice in Clinical Psychology in Manhattan and Rockland County. Author of the book 'Through Thick and Thin: The Emotional Journey of Weight Loss Surgery.' Dr. Huberman can be reached at 212-983-6225 or at wh@warrenhuberman.com.
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  • Website URL: http://www.warrenhuberman.com
Warren L. Huberman PhD.

Alex Brecher

I am a native New Yorker who loves spending time with my children and working out at the gym.
 
I had struggled with my weight my whole life. Diets worked for me until I went off them and gained back more weight each time. Finally, a friend who used to be obese told me that he had gotten weight loss surgery. I could see how great he looked, and I got the lap-band in 2003. Thankfully, I can say that I have never looked back. It helped me lose more than 100 lbs. and keep the weight off for 13+ years.
 
I am the founder of BariatricPal and proud of everything that it means to the entire weight loss surgery community. Together, we can fight obesity and work toward living healthier lifestyles!
 
You can view The BIG Books on Weight Loss Surgery book series at the BariatricPal Store.
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  • Blog URL: https://store.bariatricpal.com/blogs/news
  • Website URL: http://Store.BariatricPal.com
Alex Brecher

Ayotunde Adeyeri, MD, FASMBS

Ayotunde Adeyeri, MD, FASMBS is a New Jersey-based board-certified, fellowship-trained bariatric, laparoscopic and general surgeon.
 
He is medical director at Sterling Surgicare; medical director of the Institute for Weight Loss, Raritan Bay Medical Center; and co-medical director at Central Jersey Bariatrics.
 
Dr. Adeyeri is on staff at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge, NJ; CentraState Medical Center, Freehold, NJ; and Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel, NJ.
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  • Blog URL: http://www.sterlingsurgicare.com/blog/
  • Website URL: http://www.sterlingsurgicare.com/
Dr. Adeyeri

Joseph Krainin, M.D., FAASM

Joseph Krainin, M.D., FAASM is a board-certified sleep medicine physician and founder of Singular Sleep, the first-ever virtual sleep center. He is a thought leader in the fields of telehealth and sleep disorders.
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  • Blog URL: https://singularsleep.com/blogs/news
  • Website URL: https://singularsleep.com
Dr. Krainin

Jasmine Myers

Jasmine Myers is a bariatric surgery patient from 2005. She successfully lost 201 pounds, but has battled with a 40% regain in the past three years. Today, she is dedicated to living a healthy lifestyle: body, mind, and soul. Her mission is to empower and support others who also struggle to balance weight loss with positive body image.
 
She brings this passion to her role at Vitagene, where she has worked as part of the founding team to develop the most customized supplement experience ever created for bariatrics: a personalized supplement program designed to support you in reaching your weight loss goals and attaining the best health of your life.
 
Learn more about her work here.
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  • Website URL: http://health.myvitagene.com/bariatrics/
Jasmine Myers

Gail Altschuler, MD

Dr. Gail Altschuler, is a Bariatric Physician based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an Obesity Specialist with a special focus on keeping the weight off for life, she has developed her own unique approach to weight loss and the many personal issues that accompany being overweight. Dr. Gail is the only person in the region who gladly accepts Lap Band patients and provides comprehensive weight loss services.
 
Gail Altschuler, MD
Medical Director
 
400 Professional Center Dr.
Novato, CA 94947
 
Email: drgail@marinweightloss.com
Phone: (415) 897-9800
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  • Blog URL: http://marinweightloss.com/category/weight-loss-blog
  • Website URL: http://marinweightloss.com/
Dr. Gail Altschuler MD

Melissa Elder, MBA, NASM CPT, Behavior Change Specialist

As the founder of Walnut Health, Melissa has a passion for empowering women to integrate sustainable fitness, nutrition, and stress management strategies into their personal and professional lives. Recognizing physical wellness as a vehicle for self-empowerment in all aspects of life, Melissa approaches health holistically in order to inspire authenticity and confidence. She provides individual and group health coaching, teaches corporate seminars and educational programs, and connects clients to a specialized network of health and wellness partners.
As both NASM-Certified Personal Trainer and Behavior Change Therapist, Melissa Elder has extensive experience training corporate and celebrity clientele and establishing integrated wellness programs. A BA in Psychology and an MBA in Health Care allowed her to develop an innovative approach to wellness that merges physical fitness with behavioral and integrative health practices. In 2014, she launched Walnut Health: The culmination of her efforts to provide workforce wellness solutions on a grand scale to organizations and medical practices.
Melissa is a sought-after wellness expert and media personality who has lent her expertise to national publications, including Fitness and Women’s Health magazine. She has also been interviewed on ABC’s Nightline as an expert contributor on how to lead a healthy and well-balanced life.
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  • Blog URL: https://twitter.com/Walnut_Health
  • Website URL: http://walnuthealthllc.com
Melissa Elder

Connie Stapleton, PhD

Connie Stapleton, PhD is a licensed psychologist who has worked in the WLS community for decades, conducting pre-surgical evaluations, doing pre- and post-op individual and group therapy, speaking an national and international conferences, and writing books and articles. Connie has an online show called ConnieCasts (learn about them on her Facebook page and YouTube Channel). The ConnieCasts feature invited guests from the WLS community throughout the country to share their experience and knowledge on a variety of weight loss topics including Regain, Food Addiction, and many others. Connie also does online pre-surgical evaluations and personal therapy for people in GA and SC. Check out the MindPrep video series at www.MindPrepvideo.com and Connie's website at www.conniestapletonphd.com
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  • Website URL: http://www.conniestapletonphd.com/
Connie Stapleton PhD

George Alexander Fielding, MD,

George Alexander Fielding, MD, Professor of Surgery at NYU School of Medicine is a pioneer in laparoscopic and Bariatric surgery. He has taught laparoscopic surgery to many surgeons in Australia, the US, UK, Japan and various other Asian and European countries. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and Britain’s Royal College of Surgeons. He has published more than 150 journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters. Dr. Fielding underwent Lap-Band surgery himself in 1999, giving him an unusually personal perspective on this special group of patients.
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  • Blog URL: http://www.med.nyu.edu/surgery/bariatric/home
  • Website URL: http://nyulangone.org/doctors/1457345241/george-a-fielding
George Fielding MD

Josey Quinn

Josey Quinn believes in the power of art to help us cope with the challenges of everyday life. After living with obesity for eighteen years, Josey decided to have weight loss surgery in late 2015. She recently published "The Head Hunger Journal & Coloring Book" to share her experience learning to cope with head hunger and the other beautiful challenges of weight loss surgery. Please visit her at kindsoulstudio.com.
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  • Website URL: http://kindsoulstudio.com
Josey Quinn

Pandora Williams

I am a Weight Loss and Wellness Coach at Wilmington Lady Fitness, a ladies only fitness facility located in Wilmington, North Carolina where I do one-on-one Wellness Coaching, one-on-one Weight Loss Coaching, Group Wellness Coaching, and lead a Weight Loss Boot Camp and Weight Loss Booster Circuit Exercise Group. I also assist the club in networking with other weight loss oriented businesses in the Wilmington area to provide our weight loss motivated members with as many tools as possible in their weight loss journey.
 
I have a strong emphasis on Weight Loss Transformation, Massive Weight Loss, Life after Weight Loss, Wellness in Weight Loss, Bariatric Wellness, Bariatric Fitness and Pre and Post Op WLS Fitness. I am highly motivated to help others find fun in fitness and find ways to help them incorporate it into their healthy lifestyle changes in order to help them achieve their weight loss goals.
 
I enjoy motivational speaking on the subjects of weight loss, healthy lifestyle changes, taking your life back from obesity, the emotional aspect of the weight loss journey, wellness in weight loss, finding the fun in fitness, the bariatric lifestyle, obesity advocacy and food addictions.
 
I am the author and owner of DesperatelySeekingSlender.com a blog that documents my own personal weight loss journey going from 420 lb. with a BMI of 69.9 and losing over 250 lb.
 
I hope to begin speaking to teenage girls about obesity prevention, early lifestyle changes and finding the fun in fitness before you damage your body too much.
 
I am a passionate member of the Obesity Action Coalition ( OAC )
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  • Blog URL: http://www.DesperatelySeekingSlender.com/
Pandora Williams

Jean McMillan

Jean McMillan is the author of BANDWAGON, Strategies for Success with the Adjustable Gastric Band, and BANDWAGON COOKERY (from 9 Dogs Howling Publications). Buy the books here. Kindle versions now available on Amazon! Contact Jean at: jmcmillan159@gmail.com
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  • Blog URL: http://www.jean-onthebandwagon.blogspot.com
Jean McMillan

Dr. Seun Sowemimo

Dr. Sowemimo ("Dr. Seun") is a board certified and fellowship trained Freehold, New Jersey-based bariatric, laparoscopic and general surgeon and medical director at Prime Surgicare and Central Jersey Bariatrics located in Freehold, NJ. He can be reached at 732-982-2002 or drseun@primesurgicare.com
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  • Blog URL: http://primesurgicare.com/hair-loss-weight-loss-surgery/
  • Website URL: http://primesurgicare.com/
Dr. Sowemimo

Kelly Coffey

Coffey had roux-en y gastric bypass in 2003. Ten years later, she wrote the now-famous "5 Things I Miss About Weighing More Than 300-Pounds."
 
Coffey teaches folks how to tap into the pleasure of making healthier choices, because if we're not enjoying ourselves, what's the point?
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  • Website URL: http://www.strongcoffey.com
strongcoffey

Amanda Dutton, LAPC

Amanda Dutton, MS, LAPC is a clinical therapist in Georgia providing counseling services in a public mental health and substance abuse clinic as well as therapy and support for pre- and post-bariatric patients in her private practice. Her practice focus is on this group of clients because of her own experience with bariatric surgery. Mrs. Dutton documents her story within her counseling blog on her private practice website www.healthylifecounseling.com.
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Colleen M. Cook

Colleen Cook is a successful weight loss surgery patient from 1995. She is the President of Bariatric Support Centers International, a company that provides education and support services for weight loss surgery patients and the professionals who serve them. She is a also the founder and former chair of the National Support Group Network an Integrated Health Committee of the American Society for Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery. Colleen has also served on the National Advisory Board for the Walk From Obesity.
 
In 2009 she was named “Bariatric Professional of the Year” by the Bariatric Care Network, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. She currently serves on the Membership Committee for the Obesity Action Coalition.
 
Colleen is a sought after speaker for both bariatric patient events and professional conferences. She is the former host of the radio show, “Obesity’s Surgical Solution”. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed, bariatric best seller, The Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients book, workbook and educational program. The Success Habits resources are used in bariatric facilities throughout the world, helping patients learn and live these important principles for a lifetime of success.
 
She can be reached at cmcook@bariatricsupportcenter.com or 800-339-9129800-339-9129
 
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  • Blog URL: http://www.bsciresourcecenter.com
  • Website URL: http://www.bariatricsupportcenter.com
Colleen Cook

Marcy Palmeri

Marcy Palmeri is a weight loss coach with WL Solutions focusing on positive support and guidance.
 
Her Facebook support group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wlsolutions/ has quite a following and promotes high protein, low carb, low sugar eating and living a quality life. Her specialty is converting HIGH CARB Recipes to High Protein, Low Carb Recipes.
 
She also offers Face-2-Face Bariatric Coaching via Skype.
 
marcy@wlsolutions.net
 
 

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  • Website URL: http://www.wlsolutions.net/
Marcy Palmeri

Sally Baker

In their book ‘7 Simple Steps to Stop Emotional Eating’ published in April 2015 by Hammersmith Books London, Sally Baker and Liz Hogon take the therapy techniques they use face to face, or via Skype with clients, and make them available as easy to use, and learn self-help tools to resolve, and release the issues around emotional eating so that people, either with, or without WLS can finally allow themselves to lose weight loss, and feel relaxed around food.
 
Sally Baker
Therapist/Author
Diploma Hypnotherapy
Advance EFT & Master PSTEC Practitioner
Member of the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR)
Member of Association of Meridian Energy Therapies
sally@workingonthebody.com
www.workingonthebody.com
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  • Website URL: http://www.your7simplesteps.com
Sally Baker

Carin Boyer

Carin Boyer


 

Coaching | Motivation


 

Personal Styling


 
 

Phone: (718) 490-6766



Email: Info@ThinSideOutStyle.com


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  • Website URL: http://ThinSideOutStyle.com
Carin Boyer

Sara Kelly Keenan, Certified Life Coach

Sara Kelly Keenan is a certified life coach specializing in helping people who are having Weight Loss Surgery or those who have had surgery and would like help creating healthy plans and behavioral changes to have more long-term success with greater ease. Read about Sara's 13 year bariatric life at www.lifecoachsara or on Facebook at Lifecoachsara.
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Melissa McCreery

Psychologist and Life Coach Dr. Melissa McCreery is an emotional eating and healthy thinking expert who focuses on the three Os that ambush successful, high-striving women-overeating, overwhelm, and overload. She is the founder of TooMuchOnHerPlate.com where her clients take control of overeating and stress and add more ease, success, and joy in their health, their businesses, and their lives. The author of 70 Powerful Ways to Take Control of Emotional Eating and Overeating and creator of the Emotional Eating Solution Series, the Get OVER Overeating 7 Day Jumpstart and the Put Yourself First 7 Day Blast-off, Melissa has been featured in Self magazine, on Yahoo Health, in Diane magazine (the magazine of Curves Fitness Centers), SparkPeople.com, WLS Lifestyles and many other wellness publications.
 
Visit http://TooMuchOnHerPlate.com to learn more and to claim your free audio set: 5 Simple Steps to Move Beyond Overwhelm with Food and Life.
 
Free audios series: http://TooMuchonHerPlate.com
Get OVER Overeating: http://GetOverOvereating.com
Resources for bariatric professionals and programs: http://TooMuchonHerPlate.com/booklets
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  • Blog URL: http://toomuchonherplate.com/blog
  • Website URL: http://toomuchonherplate.com
Melissa McCreery

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