Ensuring Your WLS Success this Summer – Part Two

Ensuring Your WLS Success this Summer – Part Two   (If you missed Part One, you can read it here!)   In Part One, we covered how to ensure we are covering the basics for our wls success, in the easiest possible way, without having to struggle to prepare for those last minute summer plans. [...]

Ensuring Your WLS Success this Summer – Part One

Summer is arriving and along with it, many changes will likely be occurring in the routine you settled into during the cooler winter months. While many look forward to these changes in activities and routines, it can also prove to be a time of big challenges in following through with staying on track with your [...]

Positive Thoughts Will Create Positive Results

Think positively, expect only favorable results and situations and circumstances will change accordingly. Persistence will eventually teach your mind to think positively and ignore negative thoughts. It is not enough to think positively for a few moments, and then let fears and lack of belief re-enter your mind. A person can easily fall into the [...]

Spring Is In the Air!

Spring is in the air!

Welcome!

Welcome to Patrece's Bariatric Buddy Blog!! I look forward to sharing a lot of helpful information with you, that will assist you in finding the lifelong wls success that you desire and deserve! Be sure to keep an eye out, as this information will be coming to you very soon, and on a regualr basis. [...]

Obesity Surgery Can Lead to Memory Loss

Weight loss surgery, such as gastric bypass surgery, can lead to a vitamin deficiency that can cause memory loss and confusion, inability to coordinate movement, and other problems, according to a study published in the March 13, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The syndrome, called Wernicke encephalopathy, [...]

Postnatal Complications May Be Lower

A review of previously published studies suggests that rates of adverse outcomes for mothers or pregnant women and newborn babies, such asgestational diabetes and low birth weight, may be lower after bariatric surgery compared with pregnant women who are obese, according to an article in the November 19 issue of JAMA. “Obesity has reached epidemic [...]

Considering Surgery For The Treatment Of Obesity?

For Rebecca Lopez, 65, a diabetic who had been fighting to lose weight since her teens, stomach surgery freed her from having to take insulin to control her disease. “The surgery gave me back my life,” she said. “But you have to go into it for the right doing it only to look better.”When Lopez [...]

Weight Loss Surgery and Bone Loss

Weight loss surgery may be linked to deficiencies in calcium and vitamin D and bone loss, according to a new study. With the growing epidemic of obesity, many people are opting for surgical procedures to help promote weight loss. While these procedures result in significant and sustained may be harmful effects on calcium and bone [...]

BMI Criteria Should Be Lowered

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that the existing body mass index criteria for obesity surgery often excludes a group of obese patients at risk of cardiovascular disease.The study, appearing in the December issue of the journal Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, is among the first to evaluate the risk-factor relationship between body [...]

 

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