Written by: Kate Rountree, RDN and Genna Hymowitz, PhD, FASMBS_IH, FTOS You have worked very hard to establish healthy habits that you can maintain for a lifetime. No matter how skilled we become with these habits, there will always be challenges that arise from time to time. Some of these challenges are related to our [...]
Written by: Kate Rountree, RDN The holiday season can be a difficult time to find the right balance of making mindful, healthy behavioral choices while still participating in social event with friends and family. However, this is not impossible and including your family and friends in your health journey is key! Follow along to see [...]
An Invitation to Share Your Story, or Someone Else’s! Do you Facebook? Probably. Do you use Facebook as a support tool for obesity care or post bariatric support? If not, you should! These resources are a great way to keep up to date with your caregivers, with peers, and with science. It is far easier than [...]
Research has shown that for morbidly obese individuals, sustainable weight loss is very difficult and usually impossible to achieve through traditional diet and exercise methods. This is something that is often difficult for the other family members & friends to understand if they do not have the same struggle with excess weight. If you are [...]
You have been struggling to lose weight and keep it off for many years, and have recently been thinking that bariatric surgery may be your best hope for achieving a healthy weight that you will then be better able to maintain. How do you know if surgery is the right choice for you? Surgery is [...]
It Starts Today - How obesity surgery helps people reclaim their lives from ASMBS on Vimeo. ASMBS Patient Learning Center The ASMBS Patient Learning Center is a user-friendly resource that provided information about bariatric surgery. There are 14 sections guiding users through every aspect of surgery, from Bariatric Surgery FAQs, to Making Choices About Surgeons, Bariatric Surgery [...]
Introducing…The Obesity Medicine Specialist: Who are they and what do they do? Obesity is at an all time high. Its effects are wide spread across our nation and the world. The costs of obesity are staggering. It truly is a problem that requires all of our attention. Management of obesity is tailored to a patient’s [...]
Clinically severe, or morbid obesity has become an epidemic in our country and in several nations around the world. Obesity is a measured by body mass index; a formula of your height to weight. It is a genetically based, behaviorally and environmentally influenced, chronic and progressive disease of fat storage that is linked to numerous [...]
Why do we need to talk about weight? Weight and weight management is a personal journey for most individuals. I can understand this- I would sooner tell you my age (now 57 years old) than tell you how much I weigh. I am not an obese person, but weight is a private issue for me [...]