Category Archives: Nutrition
The Low-Down on Holiday Meals
Michele Lubin, MS, RD, CDN The holiday season is quickly approaching. It starts with those Halloween “fun size” candy bar temptations, continues with the Thanksgiving Feast, carries on with the office and house parties through December, entices us with the …
Gastric Sleeve Post-op Diet Plan
When deciding if bariatric surgery is the right choice for you, it is natural to wonder what life after surgery will look like. A big part of that is what your diet will look like. For healthy, sustained weight loss, …
What Happens If I Don’t Take Vitamins?
When our patients start their weight loss surgery journey, we try to stress the importance and permanence of the commitment they are making. Not only does bariatric surgery permanently change your body, it is ultimately changing the way your gastrointestinal …
The Best Ways to Get Vitamin D After Bariatric Surgery
Vitamin D is an essential part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Without vitamin D, our bodies would not be able to properly absorb and process calcium to strengthen our bones. A deficiency in vitamin D, similar to a deficiency …
How To Make Healthy Habits Stick
By Barbara Brathwaite, RN, MSN The most important thing to remember in trying to maintain healthy habits is that you must allow your health and well being to come before anything else. All the other things will follow. Assess …
Food Safety Facts
By Elizabeth Schledorn RN, MSN, CNOR, CBN, CHHC After weight loss surgery, making conscious decisions about what types of foods you ingest is very important. The best way to accomplish this is to cook your own meals at home. Home-cooking …
Eating What You Want Within Reason
By Michele Lubin, MS, RD, CDN Think back to the time you were preparing for your weight loss surgery. What were your expectations? You must have heard from your doctor, nurse, dietitian, therapist or other patients that “this is only …
Ways to Avoid Last Minute Choices
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! Every weight loss sutrgery patient should adopt this statement as a mantra. Making choices on the run as you dash from work projects to afterschool soccer games to dinner reservations and …
When Zero Calories Does Not Equal Zero Calories
“I can eat as much of that candy as I want…it’s sugar-free and fat-free!” If this sounds too good to be true, then of course it is! Eating too much of anything, especially at one time can potentially cause a …