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Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

Amazing!!wooooow you look GR8[emoji106]

Yup good and well over 600lbs I was. Hell I think in the other pick with the grey A shirt I was in the 380lbs range. Granted I was only about 8/9 months post op and had at that time dropped over 200lbs.

Woooow over 600... You did WELL!!!! EXCELLENT, AMAZING...WONT HE DO IT!!! God is good

To me 241lbs never looked so good. Especially coming from good and well over 600lbs too.

It’s not rice and vegetables. It’s ”riced” vegetables. If eating more vegetables is on your list of 2017 resolutions, eating them in a “riced” version can make those veggies more exciting.


“Ricing” refers to vegetables cut up into small pieces about the size of rice. Cauliflower has gotten the most attention, but other veggies are getting in on the trend. Years ago, the South Beach Diet included a recipe for mashed cauliflower to take the place of mashed potatoes. The new kid on the block is riced cauliflower. The color is similar to rice and can be cut to look like rice. Some say it has a similar taste to rice, but use your own taste buds to figure this out. For bariatrics patients, riced cauliflower doesn’t have the type of carbohydrate that can swell in your stomach pouch, like regular rice does. Once you can add vegetables back to your food choices, you’ve now got a vegetable choice that can be seasoned many ways. Click here for a Riced Cauliflower recipe from www.whatscookingamerica.net, which also includes several flavor options. For an easier version, Green Giant and Birds’ Eye already have riced cauliflower and other riced vegetables in the freezer section. You’ll be able to whip up a vegetable side dish in a jiffy! Pizza crust recipes with riced cauliflower have also been enjoyed by our patients for several years. Yum! You now have a trendy, fun and tasty way to eat your veggies. Enjoy!

Bariatric dietitian Elizabeth Anderson is a big advocate for bariatric surgery--her whole livelihood revolves around it.
She goes a little bananas though when people misunderstand this potential game-changer.


Tori* came to me 200 pounds overweight.
She listened carefully to all the facts about bariatric surgery’s possibilities and limitations.
She agreed that to reach optimal success, she needed to begin exercising, changing her eating habits and looking at her relationship with food.
Tori lost 150 pounds in her first-year post-op.
She didn’t have to follow any exercise program or deal with her issues with food. The weight just kept falling off.
She was even able to eat her favorite foods, just a lot less.
Tori was ecstatic and clearly over her battle with weight.
At 18 months post-op, the good times stopped rolling.
Tori was frustrated she couldn’t keep losing weight. In fact, it was getting harder to maintain her current weight.
By two years post op, she had regained 40 pounds and was frantic.
I have been as subtle as a mosquito urging Tori to check in with a counselor to better understand why she eats when she’s not hungry.
Now she was ready to give it a try.
4 months later she said to me,
“Elizabeth, this surgery can only take you so far. I thought if I lost the weight I would never regain it, even though everyone I’ve known that’s had this surgery, has regained it. I thought I would be stronger. Now I see that if you don’t face the issues you’ve got and that you’ve used food to self-medicate, all the old habits will come back and you’ll regain the weight.”
And this is the reason I say weight loss surgery is not the solution.
Calling it a tool is becoming a cliché; it’s simply the start of a different life.
It can be a new and better life with healthier eating, daily exercise and taking care of yourself emotionally.
Or, it can be a detour, a brush with a healthier possibility that is not embraced.
Tori says she didn’t think it would be so hard to keep the weight off. She says she didn’t expect all the things in her life to stay the same after she lost weight.
Now that she’s seeing things with a brand-new perspective, Tori seems more hopeful that the Weight Regain Train is not barreling toward her.
I wish Tori wasn’t the exception but she is.
Taking an emotional inventory is the scariest part of full immersion into a new life after WLS.
But it’s worth it and I’m afraid, necessary for long-term success.
Whatever you need to do to take the dive, seek it out, today and start to imagine a more peaceful, positive future with a weight you feel good in.
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*client names and features are always changed to protect identity.