Posts categorized "Bariatric Food"
How sugar affects the brain - or - why we are crackheads - or - why your diet failed - or - or - or
01/17/2014
THIS! I saw Dr. Avena (the voice in this video) at OAC #YWM2013 and she was amazingly informative. WATCH.
As the video shows, the key player in the reward system of our brain â where we get that feeling of pleasure â is dopamine. Dopamine receptors are all over our brain. And doing a drug like heroin brings on a deluge of dopamine. Guess what happens when we eat sugar?
Yes, those dopamine levels also surge â though not nearly as much as they do with heroin. Still, too much sugar too often can steer the brain into overdrive, the video says. And that kickstarts a series of "unfortunate events" â loss of control, cravings and increased tolerance to sugar. All of those effects can be physically and psychologically taxing over time, leading to weight gain and dependence. The takeaway is pretty clear: If you're sensitive to sugar and inclined to indulge in a supersugary treat, do it rarely and cautiously. Otherwise, there's a pretty good chance that your brain is going to start demanding sugar loudly and often. And we're probably better off without that extra voice in our head.
Factors Distinguishing Weight Loss Success and Failure at Five or More Years Post Bariatric Surgery
12/12/2013
What makes someone a Weight Loss Success long term after bariatric surgery?
According to a study by Colleen Cook of BSCI - it's following the rules of your WLS.
I've heard her say it a hundred times at bariatric events - fall back to the RULES of your surgery - because it DOES WORK -
(Nodding in agreement - I am proof.)
Here's the study details from ASMBS/TOS 2013 -
Dietary support after bariatric surgery, along with pre-operative teaching and post-operative management, may mean the difference between weight-loss success and failure for patients with obesity, according to results of an on-line survey presented at the 31st Annual Scientific Meeting of The Obesity Society (OBESITY 2013).
âThis study confirms the need to put into place the resources to support people after bariatric surgery, including the dieticians and behavioural therapists who are actively involved with their patients, and can be critical to their success or failure,â stated American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery past president, Scott Shikora, MD, Center for Metabolic Health, Brigham and Womenâs Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
âPeople who have had bariatric surgery and are complying with the very basic principles of personal accountability, portion control, food intake, vitamins and supplements, proper nutrition and exercise are the ones who have been doing well long-term,â noted lead author Colleen M. Cook, Bariatric Support Centers International, Jordan, Utah, speaking here on November 14.
Cook and colleagues conducted a survey to assess adherence to specific, research-based, behavioural recommendations based on earlier research. Of their 535 total initial respondents, 255 were 5 or more years post-surgery. From this group, they took a final sample of 158 respondents comprised of 117 (74.05%) who reported achieving at least 80% of their excess body weight loss (the Highly Successful group) and 41 (25.9%) who reported achieving less than 40% of their excess body weight loss (the Not Highly Successful group).
The groups were compared on self-reported behaviours, including dietary intake, physical exercise, attendance at surgical follow-up visits, and participation in bariatric support groups.
The Highly Successful group reported significantly higher rates of compliance with dietary recommendations (P< .001); fewer total calories per day (1511.9 kCals versus 2190.0 kCals, P< .001 ); consuming a higher percentage of calories from protein (49% vs 36%; P< .001); higher frequency of eating protein first (P =.007); and lower percentage of calories from carbohydrates (31% vs 40%; P = .001).
The Highly Successful group was much more likely to regularly weigh themselves (P< .001); attend support groups (P = .002); and take supplemental multivitamins (P = .029), including calcium (P = .004), iron (P = .011), and B12 (P = .001).
The Highly Successful group was significantly less likely to eat mindlessly (P< .001); to âgrazeâ (P< .001); to eat in front of the TV (P = .002); to eat fast food (P< .001); and to eat food high in sugar (P< .001).
The groups also differed significantly on carbonated beverage (P = .02) and caffeine (P = .005) drinking patterns. The Highly Successful group reported significantly more physical activity at least several times per week than the Not Highly Successful group (P< .001).
The researchers found no significant differences, however, for ingestion of percentage calories from fat or the frequency of eating at sit-down restaurants, drinking calorie-laden liquids, or attending surgical clinic follow-ups.
Participants in this study averaged 51.7 years of age and 8.8 years post-surgery; 96% were female, 59% were married, and 89% were white. Both groups had similar demographics.
Funding for this study was provided by Bariatric Support Centers International.
[Presentation title: Factors Distinguishing Weight Loss Success and Failure at Five or More Years Post Bariatric Surgery. Abstract A-366-P]
Miranda Lambert - "My Diet Is Better Than Gastric Bypass"
12/06/2013
Miranda Lambert, you're not making friends with your target market (...Did You Notice That 70% of America is Overweight?!) with these ridiculous articles.
Via Life & Style Magazine -
The speculation all started when Miranda showed up at the AMA Awards showing off her extreme weight loss. She reportedly dropped 25 pounds from her 155-pound frame in a very short span of time, which led to rumors that she may have secretly gotten her stomach stapled.
However, Life & Styleâs report claims that Miranda is now firing back against the rumors, and claiming that neither plastic surgery nor a gastric bypass had anything to do with her weight loss. Apparently, she did NOT lose 30 pounds in 8 weeks via a shortcut, but old-fashioned hard work. Eh. Itâs still difficult to believe, but with celebrities, you never know â they have a ton of free time and access to the best trainers and the best food. Itâs possible that Miranda just worked really, really hard to lose all that weight so quickly, even if it sounds a tad bit unbelievable.
Nobody really cares if you "got your stomach stapled," and those of us who understand "stomach stapling" know that you could not have it done at 5' 4" and 155 lbs.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm
Frankly, as someone who is nearly THAT size - I am a bit miffed that people would suggest bariatric surgery at a weight that I have been told is "too skinny."
This is so silly.
Celebrate ENS Video - All in one vitamin, protein, and more!
10/30/2013
Created for surgical weight loss patients, our ENS (Essential Nutrient System) shake contains a high potency multivitamin, 500 mg of calcium citrate, and 25 g of whey isolate protein in each pack. Our integrated formula provides maximum solubility and ensures that the vitamins and minerals are readily bioavailable. This product is the best option for patients immediately following surgery.
* The vitamin and mineral content of each pack is equal to taking one chewable multivitamin, plus 500 mg of calcium, plus 25 g of protein.
* Due to the nature of the formulation, this product is appropriate for any surgical weight loss procedure. As with any of our other delivery systems, you may need additional supplementation based on surgery type.
* It is recommended to be blended with 8 oz of cold water, shaken, and consumed but can be mixed with as much or as little water as you want. It may also be mixed with milk.
* Each pack also contains 4 g of soluble fiber, added electrolytes and a 500 mg antioxidant blend, and a 200 mg green tea blend.
* Like our other products, taste is important and this has a delicious vanilla flavor that will make you think that you are drinking a glass of milk flavored like cake batter.
* Since quality is a critical element of all of our products, we utilize an ultra refined whey isolate protein that scores 100 on the PDCAAS scale.
Who would benefit from this product?
1. Early post-operative patients - Since this may be diluted to taste, there are virtually no issues with taste aversion.
2. Athletes - If you are a surgery patient turned athlete, this can help to flavor that boring water that you need to drink. Water is critical and taking your vitamins and calcium while hydrating makes it easier.
3. Anyone looking for a convenient alternative to pills or chewables.
- Here is one of my original MM reviews, I LOVE THIS STUFF.
- Via Celebrate Vitamins <--- click here to find it under "Protein" for the current links.
Bariatric surgery may prevent heart failure
10/22/2013
Bariatric surgery may prevent heart failure
Major finding: The incidence rate of heart failure during a median 15 years of prospective follow-up after bariatric surgery was 3.1 cases per 1,000 person-years, compared with 5.2/1,000 person-years in obese controls.
Data source: The Swedish Obese Subjects study included 2,010 obese subjects who underwent bariatric surgery in 1987-2001 and 2,037 closely matched obese controls. It is a nonrandomized, prospective, observational study.
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Weight Loss Surgery Pouch Test Fad Diets Why Do You?
09/27/2013
What's In Your Egg-White Breakfast Sandwich Might Scare You
07/22/2013
What's In Your Egg-White Breakfast Sandwich Might Scare You -
Just HOW many ingredients are in an EGG WHITE?
What does 2000 calories look like!?
04/01/2013
I might be slightly disturbed by this, and it is blatantly obvious why I was 320 lbs, and even more clear How Easy It Is To Regain Weight After Bariatric Surgery.
Just a few calories a day - it adds up so damned fast.
My before-WLS diet would easily dwarf this 2000-calorie business.
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Weight-Loss Surgery's Weird Alcoholism Risk (It's not weird.)
03/02/2013
Weight-Loss Surgery's Weird Alcoholism Risk | The Fix.
Copied entire article from Weight-Loss Surgery's Weird Alcoholism Risk | The Fix. - because - BECAUSE -
Gastric bypass surgery is something of a medical marvel. In Roux-en-Y surgery, a small pouch is made from part of your stomach, building a new, smaller one. The pouch is then connected to the middle portion of the small intestine (the jejunum), bypassing the upper part (the duodenum). Because your new stomach is about 90% smaller than your old one, you feel full with much smaller amounts of food and take in many fewer calories. Another popular smaller-stomach operation is adjustable gastric band surgery, in which an inflatable silicone device is placed around the top of the stomach.
In all, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimates that approximately 200,000 people have bariatric surgery every year. The Roux-en-Y operation generally costs between $15,000 and $30,000; the band is cheaper by about $10,000. Many private insurance policies offer no coverage for what they consider an elective procedure.
There have been previous reports of bariatric surgery patients having serious trouble with alcohol use after their surgeries. A 2012 Archives of Surgery study by the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center looked at 100 people who had Roux-en-Y and 55 who had the adjustable band. The post-op patients were significantly more likely than the general population to use addictive substances, especially two years after the procedures. The Roux-en-Y cohort seemed particularly susceptible to alcohol use.
If food has always been your drug, and surgery abruptly denies you your fix, you turn to other drugs.
A much larger 2012 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association came to a similar conclusion. University of Pittsburgh researchers followed almost 2,000 people who had Roux-en-Y, adjustable band or another weight-loss surgery. Before their operations, 7.6% of the group abused alcohol; after the knife, 9.6% did so. And, the patients who had the Roux-en-Y surgery were twice as likely to abuse alcohol as those who had the gastric band.
Health experts have long known that obesity and depression often go hand-in-hand. Depression can lead to becoming obese, and the opposite is also true. Many obese people are depressed before they have surgery and are therefore at high risk of depression afterward. For one thing, recovery is a slow process, and health complications of the surgery are very common; 40% of patients suffer from infection and post-operative bleeding. Perhaps more important, bariatric surgery is no magic bullet, and some patients become disillusioned as they realize that in order to "solve" their serious weight problems, they have to maintain good eating and exercise habitsâlifestyle changes that likely proved elusive in the past.
Addiction experts see the problem as one of switching addictions. People become obese because they use eating as a drug. Excessive eating is a form of self-medication for painful feelings associated with depression, anxiety and deeper personality disorders. Like most drugs, food, especially carbs and sugars, trigger the brain's reward pathways, causing a feeling of pleasure. But sustained excessive eating causes the brain to lose its capacity to produce these feel-good chemicals. That's whenaddiction starts.
Weight-loss surgery fixes the outside of a person, but not the inside. While it can reduce the harm of obesity, it leaves the needs driving your addiction untouched. So if food has always been your drug, and stomach-minimizing surgery abruptly denies you your fix, you turn to other drugs. Alcohol, being legal, is the most available, but patients can take their pick among the panoply of addictive substances.
Hogwash, says John Morton, MD, a bariatric surgeon at the Stanford School of Medicine and member of the executive council of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Like many other surgeons who specialize in this procedure, he favors a physical rather than a psychological or switching-addiction explanation for the high risk of alcohol abuse. "[There is a] heightened sensitivity to alcohol [and it is] purely physiologic," Morton says. Along with the liver, the stomach produces alcohol dehydrogenase, an enzyme that breaks down alcohol into other, less toxic molecules. Because gastric bypass patients have much less stomach, and therefore less of that enzyme, more alcohol enters their bloodstream.
"As a result," Morton says, "you get drunker faster and stay drunker longer." The same phenomenon occurs with people who have their stomachs removed because of cancer. If alcohol abuse in bariatric patients were due to psychological issues, you wouldn't expect cancer patients to have greater alcohol sensitivity, Morton argues.
Mitch Roslin, MD, a specialist in bariatric medicine at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, agrees. He calls the switching-addictions theory "BS.â Drinking alcohol in your post-Roux-en-Y life is "the epitome of drinking on an empty stomach"âafter all, your stomach is almost nonexistent. "Essentially," Roslin says, "drinking alcohol after Roux-en-Y is like having an alcohol IV."
"Essentially, drinking alcohol after Roux-en-Y is like having an alcohol IV," Roslin says.
But why does alcohol sensitivity show up more in the second year after the surgery? Roslin suggests that the second year is when you realize that your surgery will not, by itself, keep you healthy, that you do indeed have to "fix the inside." At that point, you might feel depressed, use alcohol to escape and comply less with your post-op instructions.
Mortonâs and Roslinâs explanations may account for why people who have had gastric bypasses can get a buzz by drinking a small amount of alcohol, but they don't quite explain why some people who never abused booze before end up becoming post-op alcoholics. Nor do they account for another, even more serious, health risk for people who have had gastric bypasses: suicide.
Two recent studiesâin Pennsylvania and Utahâreinforce the link between obesity and emotional distress by focusing on suicide rates. A study of 17,000 weight-loss surgeries performed in Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2004 showed a surprisingly high incidence of suicide. Of the 440 deaths that occurred, 16 resulted from suicide or drug overdose; by comparison, the rate for the general population is only three. And this August, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicineshowed that a group of almost 10,000 bariatric patients had a 58% higher than average risk of dying in an accident or suicide. When the bariatric patients' suicide rate was compared to that of obese people who had not had surgery, it was close to double, 11.1 per 10,000 compared to 6.4 per 10,000.
When the high risk of suicide is coupled with the high risk of alcohol abuse, a psychological, if not a switching-addiction, explanation is almost inescapable. Patients may be aware of these risks, but the need for the surgery overrides such concerns. While prospective patients often undergo psychological evaluations before the procedure, doctors often do not follow up with the patients and patients often do not participate in post-surgery counseling. The addiction to food is typically viewed as more or less having been "treated" by the gastric bypass. The danger of developing a new addiction remains low on the list of health priorities.
There is no denying the benefits of bariatric surgery. Without it, many people struggling with obesity would be doomed to lives burdened with diabetes, heart disease, mobility problems and high risk of stroke and early death. At the same time, it's clear that the surgery's benefits would be increased by improved screening of patients for mental health problemsâand addictionâbefore surgery as well as deeper, longer counseling afterward. This may mean fewer people will be eligible for the surgeryâa prospect that neither doctors nor patients would embrace. At the very least, reframing how patients understand the surgery is in order: It is not a magic bullet but one in a serious of interventions that are, like it or not, lifelong.
Atkins Roast Turkey Tenders with Herb Pan Gravy
12/10/2012
"Atkins, a US-based diet brand, has launched Atkins Frozen Meals that will be available across the nation from January 2013. (They can be found in SOME WalMarts NOW...)
The new menu item includes Farmhouse-Style Sausage Scramble, Tex-Mex Scramble, Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo, Roast Turkey Tenders with Herb Pan Gravy, Beef Merlot, Crustless Chicken Pot Pie, Meatloaf with Portobello, Mushroom Gravy, Italian Sausage Primavera and Chile con Carne.
The items are prepared with whole food ingredients such as freshly-picked vegetables, real creams and sauces, and premium custom meats. They contain no added sugars or preservatives, offer 310-370 calories and also contain 7g of net carbs or less, said the company.
Atkins Nutritionals chief marketing officer Scott Parker said that the company's Frozen Meals line offers homemade food and fresh ingredients and provides a convenient solution to help facilitate weight loss.
The meals will have a MSRP of $4.49 for lunch and dinner variety. The breakfast variety will be available for $3.99."
For lunch I heated up Atkins Roast Turkey Tenders With Herb Pan Gravy - 9 ounces
Ingredients: Turkey Tender Medallions (Turkey Tenders, Water, Less than 2% Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Maltodextrin, Salt, Turkey Stock, Flavor, Gum Arabic, Potato Starch, Canola Oil, Sodium Bicarbonate, Natural Flavorings, Paprika), Green Beans, Water, Turkey Fat, Red Bell Peppers, Cream Contains Less than 2% of the Following: Chicken Flavor Concentrate (Chicken Meat Including Chicken Juices, Chicken Fat, Yeast Extract, Potato Flour, Onion Powder, Sea Salt, Flavor, Carrot Powder), Canola Oil, Resistant Maltodextrin, Flavorings, Turkey Base (Turkey Meat Including Turkey Juices, Salt, Flavorings, Potato Starch, Carrot Powder), Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Caramel Color, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate.
And now you have a heart attack thinking a about all that fat, just note the lack of carbs and how perfect this is for a low-carb diet or if a person ate a portion of it at one time. If you were following an otherwise low carb diet this falls right into it.
Heated up - the turkey is nice and tender. The gravy has a nice creamy, almost buttery texture to it, and the green beans are fresh and crisp and go nicely with the turkey.
As a nearly nine year gastric bypass post op, I was able to eat the entire dish and it was filling -- 9 ounces for 360 calories/10 carbs/23 protein.
I would suggest these dishes for someone following the Atkins plan COMPLETELY because they are very high in fat, and you shouldn't really over do it on them. Two in one day would blow your fat grams through the roof.
- Product - Atkins Roast Turkey Tenders with Herb Pan Gravy
- Via - WalMart
- Price $3.49 at WalMart
- Coupon - https://www.facebook.com/AtkinsDiet/app_175238885954001
- Pros - Low-carb, high protein, easy to prepare, great texture, good taste... fits into my "diet..."
- Cons - High fat, high sodium, could be too heavy for some...
- Rating - Pouchworthy, MM
Atkins Frozen Meals in WalMart
12/07/2012
Hey, Atkins? How did I not know about THESE?
Please to HAVE THEM IN MY WALMART, yesterday. Or delivery? Yes please?
I. live. on. frozen. meals.
I am entirely serious:
I purchase 2-3 meals for consumption 5-7 days a week, I am for about a 1200-1400 calorie intake. I am not supposed to cook, unsupervised. <---- the link explains.
I am your target customer. I spend days looking for lower-carb options.
NOW.
Thanks! *skips away*
- We're so excited to announce our NEW line of Frozen Meals! Print your coupon for $2 off and enter to win a Los Angeles Getaway to meet Sharon Osbourne!
- https://www.facebook.com/AtkinsDiet/app_175238885954001
Twinkpocalalypse! Hostess goes down!
11/16/2012
OMG, SHE EATS TEH FOODZ. GASP.
10/14/2012
This morning we went out to breakfast and I post a photo of my meal on Facebook.
I sometimes do this, often to The Greater Distress Of The Internet.
I asked the waitress for a "Egg White Veggie Frittata" though she didn't ask me white kind of anything I wanted with it -- so it just CAME with white toast. I would have asked for extra MEAT on the side or whole grain toast. So, this is not my normal, I don't typically do white bread. That said, What You See Is What You Get. I Ate Teh Foodz. I also ate, not shown, two slices of bacon, after tossing aside the nasty-ass turkey bacon that was offered with this frittata.
The internet gets distressed when Weight Loss Surgery Patients Eat Teh Food. The SOLIDS. The Not A Shake.
We hear --
- "Did you really eat that?"
- "Can you eat that?"
- "Should you eat that?"
- "Can you really eat white bread? Eggs? Bacon? Vegetables? ______?"
- "Did you really use butter?"
- "OMG, COFFEE?"
- "Wait, you use CREAM?"
- "What, no PROTEIN SHAKE?"
- "Wait --- THOSE ARE CARBS!?!"
- "OMG TOAST?!?!?!??!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!?!"
- "I thought we could not have bread?"
- "But, I was told no TOAST?"
- "My surgeon told me no BREAD FOR LYYYFFFFEEEE!!!!"
- Etc, etc.. so forth, so on.
I have been getting these comments for as long as I have been blogging my intakes on the internets.
I had one person even offer the suggestion that my epilepsy (at the time, not diagnosed...) was Due To The Fact That I Ate Carbohydrates More Than She Was Suggested.
Here's a couple of random suggestions, y'all --
#1 - Bariatric Eating Plans Can Be DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER.
#2 - Some of us are many years post op, and food happens. Ask around, do you know many 5-8-10 year post gastric-bypass patients that subside on meal replacements? <crickets> Right. "Things change." And, even though you may be TOLD that you are going to 'live on 1/4 cup of solids three times a day,' uh... that doesn't happen. I am sorry.
I rarely share the reality of what actually goes in my gullet these days because for one -- it's so boring -- and because, wow, some of Y'all Are Judgy! You have to realize, at pushing nine years later -- it's back to food! It's normal life!
Tell me. What are you eating? Are you willing to SHARE? Let's start sharing.
Is Your Glass of Wine Loaded With Sugar?
10/12/2012
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Restaurant Discounts For Gastric Bypass Patients May Send Mixed Messages
10/11/2012
Please do not give me a reason to patronize restaurants with low-quality food options. MM needs no reason ON THIS EARTH to step foot in a Golden Corral, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, etc... EVER.
Nor do MMs kids. EVER. I do not need a trough of pasta, fried seafood or oily iceberg lettuce based salad.
MM Does Not Endorse The Use Of WLS Discount Cards For Food. We have to learn to eat like normal people. Having an excuse to pay less for crappy food does not teach us anything.
NPR - n.pr/UEF2qA
All of these reduced appetites might seem like bad news for the restaurant business, but surgeon-distributed food discount cards aim to make dining out cheaper and more practical for gastric bypass patients.
But is this kind of encouragement really a good idea?
To accommodate the patients' reduced stomach volumes, the cards, called WLS (Weight Loss Surgery) cards, ask restaurants to allow patients to order a smaller portion of food for a discounted price.
These cards aren't a new phenomenon â they've been around in the U.S. at least since the 1990s, and a similar discount programwas proposed to city council members in Campinas, Brazil, earlier this year.
And like the surgery itself, the WLS cards have grown in popularity, says Ann Rogers, director at the Penn State Surgical Weight Loss Program. "Now there's so much word of mouth about it, that if we forget to give them out [after surgery], the patient says, 'What about those discount cards?' " Rogers says.
Some popular U.S. restaurants accept the cards. For example, Cracker Barrel restaurants allow patients to order from the inexpensive children's menu or order a lunch-sized portion for dinner. In a statement issued to the Salt, Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants say they are happy to do the same.
Even "all-you-can-eat" buffet restaurant Golden Corral provides a discounted buffet price upon seeing a proof-of-surgery card in some locations.
Though gastric bypass surgery leaves the patient with a stomach pouch only about the size of an egg, restaurants, especially buffets, still spell trouble for many patients. Unlimited portions and heavily processed, quickly digestible foods that keep patients from feeling full make it difficult to keep the weight off, says Rogers.
Golden Corral could not provide a spokesperson to respond to our inquiries, but it and other companies have made efforts in recent years to add healthier choices to their buffet offerings.
Even if the patient makes better choices, however, friends and family who come along may not do the same. "I definitely discourage patients from going to buffet-style restaurants â it's a danger for everybody," Rogers says.
In fact, Rogers says she discourages her patients from eating at any restaurant. So why distribute a discount card that seems to encourage dining out?
Rogers says it's OK for patients to use the WLS card and splurge at the buffet every once in a while, and the card also encourages them to order smaller meals at other restaurants. If patients make healthy choices about 75 percent of the time, they'll keep the weight off, she says.
But just as the buffet can have negative family health consequences, patients who are diligent about eating well a majority of the time can encourage healthy habits among friends and family. Rogers says patients who attend regular follow-up appointments, some featuring weigh-ins and healthy cooking classes, retain their lost weight about 70 percent of the time.
"For most of our patients, when the patients change their habits, it changes the eating habits of the whole household. It's pretty educational," she says.
Changing habits is critical, she says. It's a myth that the stomach surgery is a permanent weight loss cure. After surgery, "the [hunger] hormones go down and stay down for a year or two. But, slowly, the hunger starts to come back," Rogers says.
#malware #scam Bariatric Eating Susan Maria Leach Before + After BEHealthyDrinks + Book Release
10/10/2012
Presented without commentary for your perusal.
PS. Susan, you might want to take back control of your social media.
Bariatric Eating Media Tour is a-comin'! Can you feel the anticipation?
09/27/2012
I am getting all tingly excited over the upcoming release of Susan Maria Leach's newly revised and updated book: Before + After!
"Susan Maria Leach maintains her new weight and devotes her time to motivating others to keep on track and sustain healthy patterns of diet and exercise not just for a short period after surgery but for life. She owns and operates BariatricEating.com and has opened her first nutrition store in Pompano Beach, Florida. Her company is a member of the corporate council of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery."
Right!
Check out BariatricEating.com - its chock-full of helpful... malware?
Check out the social media -
So. excited.
Thanks BE! You rock!
Oh. Yes. She. Did.
09/07/2012
Hold the Press Releases, Suz!
How do you go from not paying your taxes, failure to ship orders since 2011, closing your store, foreclosure, shutting down all communication to... THIS?
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Protica Inc. Recalls Product Because Of Possible Health Risk
08/25/2012
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800-PROTICA (800-776-8422)
Media:
James Duffy
[email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 23, 2012 - On August 17, 2012, Protica Inc. of Whitehall, PA had undertaken a voluntary product withdrawal of four products including Body Choice "Protein Shots", Nutritional Resources "Protein Wave", ProBalance "Protein to Go French Vanilla Latte" and "Protein to Go Milk Chocolate Shake" because they have the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death. Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled. Botulism, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning, can cause the following symptoms: general weakness, dizziness, double-vision and trouble with speaking or swallowing. Difficulty in breathing, weakness of other muscles, abdominal distension and constipation may also be common symptoms. People experiencing these problems should seek immediate medical attention. No illnesses have been confirmed to date.
The problem with the lots below were discovered when investigating the processing parameters for all manufactured products. The products withdrawn were distributed nationally through retail and direct mail and are limited to specific lots of the branded products. The affected lots follow.
Protein to Go Milk Chocolate Shake (2.5oz bottle)
Manufacture Date | Lot Number |
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2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 A |
2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 B |
2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 C |
2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 D |
2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 E |
2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 F |
2/9/12 | PP0402 4109 G |
2/13/12 | PP0442 4113 |
2/16/12 | PP0442 4115 |
3/29/12 | PP0892 4121 |
4/12/12 | PP1032 4131 A |
4/12/12 | PP1032 4131 B |
4/25/12 | PP1162 4134 B |
4/25/12 | PP1162 4134 C |
4/25/12 | PP1162 4134 A |
5/3/12 | PP1242 4139 |
5/8/12 | PP1242 4140 |
6/7/12 | PP1592 4145 B |
6/7/12 | PP1592 4145 A |
Protein to Go French Vanilla Latte (2.5oz bottle)
Manufacture Date | Lot Number |
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9/8/2011 | PP2511 4066 A |
9/8/2011 | PP2511 4066 B |
10/11/2011 | PP2841 4079 |
10/18/2011 | PP2911 4086 |
12/6/2011 | PP3401 4103 |
2/13/2012 | PP0442 4112 |
4/2/2012 | PP0932 4122 |
4/4/2012 | PP0952 4125 |
4/11/2012 | PP1022 4129 |
4/24/2012 | PP1152 4133 A |
4/24/2012 | PP1152 4133 B |
4/24/2012 | PP1152 4133 C |
5/1/2012 | PP1222 4138 A |
5/1/2012 | PP1222 4138 B |
5/1/2012 | PP1222 4138 C |
5/8/2012 | PP1292 4141 |
6/8/2012 | PP1592 4146 A |
6/8/2012 | PP1592 4146 B |
Nutritional Resources Protein Wave gelatin (6oz cup)
Manufacture Date | Lot Number |
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May 03 2012 | PP 1242 6123 |
Body Choice Protein Shots (3oz vial)
Manufacture Date | LotNumber |
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Dec 20, 2011 | PP 3541 2924 |
Consumers who have purchased any of the above products can return them to the place of purchase or to Protica for a full refund. Consumers with any questions should contact Protica at 1-800-PROTICA (1-800-776-8422).
Protica, founded in 2001, is headquartered in Whitehall, PA. The company relocated from Horsham, Pa., to the Lehigh Valley in January 2009, occupying and rehabilitating the former vacant Lehigh Valley Dairy Plant near Allentown. Protica has approximately 60 employees and is privately held.