Everyone knows they need to exercise, but typically, people have one goal in mind: lose weight. What if I told you that exercise can do so much more than shrink your waistline? Regular exercise contributes to your health in so many ways, it should be a no-brainer for anyone looking to get healthy.  Makes Your … Continue reading Understanding How Exercise Impacts Physical and Mental Health

If you’ve ever been on a weight loss journey, I bet you’ve read some bad nutrition advice. With the popularity of fitness and weight loss influencers, you can find all kinds of advice around every corner. You can even find studies that seem to completely contradict each other. This makes it hard to know what … Continue reading 5 Common Nutrition Myths (and the Truth Behind Them)

Navigating mental illness means taking a tough journey. For many, it’s one of the most difficult things they face in life. Most people will recommend therapy to anyone struggling with mental health. Therapy can help, but it’s not as simple as showing up. To get optimal results from therapy, you need to put in the … Continue reading How to Get the Most Out of Therapy

When you decide it’s time to lose the weight you’ve been carrying, it can be a difficult time for your self-esteem. Now that you’re finally measuring your weight and noticing the habits that have gotten in your way, you may be appalled. In wondering how you “let yourself” get to this point, you may overlook … Continue reading How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy

Reaching menopause often feels like going through a second puberty. You experience wild fluctuations in your hormones with symptoms that aren’t all that unfamiliar. When you start having hot flashes, mood swings and fatigue, you know that perimenopause is here. Perimenopause is the stage before menopause that can last anywhere from a few months to … Continue reading The Connection Between Menopause, Hormones and Weight Loss

Weight loss can be life changing. Health problems that have been ailing you can get better or disappear. Clothes start fitting better. Exercise gets easier. By changing one aspect of your life, it can feel like more than the weight you lost has been lifted off your shoulders. One change you may not fully anticipate … Continue reading When People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss

After bariatric surgery, almost all patients have some degree of excess skin. This happens because of the quick, dramatic weight loss in the operating room. For many patients, their skin needs time to catch up to the weight loss. Others have excess skin for some time after surgery, especially if their surgical weight loss exceeds … Continue reading Beauty isn’t Just Skin Deep: Dealing With Excess Skin

Grief is an emotion you may not expect as a result of bariatric surgery. However, when you go through major changes in life, there’s always a chance you’ll look back to your “past self” and feel a sense of loss. That person may have felt more fun, more friendly or just different in a way … Continue reading What to Do When You’re Grieving Your Past Self

It’s normal to feel overwhelmed by the amount of foods and habits you are told to avoid after bariatric surgery. Chances are, you made some changes to your diet leading up to the surgery to begin the weight loss journey. You may think that the foods you ate before are now forbidden, but that’s not … Continue reading Eating Your Favorite Foods After Bariatric Surgery