After bariatric surgery, the holidays can be a difficult endless parade of favorite foods. The Pumpkin Pie Lady just wan't ready for the changes required.
If you've had bariatric surgery, you may wonder whether you can eat sugar. The short answer is yes. It gets a little sticky from there. Let’s explore this question with mindful eating.
it can be hard to ignore the call of those brightly colored bags of candy. This is especially true if you trick yourself, saying it’s for the kids when it’s really for you. If you’ve deprived yourself of all things sweet, cravings for candy only grow stronger.
Carb is NOT a 4-letter word after bariatric surgery! Mindful eating doesn’t focus on rules so you may wonder, Can I eat carbs after bariatric surgery? Sometimes even the most experienced bariatric clinicians throw rules at their patients like, "No more than twenty carbs a day" or "Don’t eat white foods like rice, bread, or pasta ever again!"
Weight cycling, yoyo dieting, and disordered eating patterns are common in individuals who meet the criteria for bariatric surgery. Further, the challenges posed by a food-abundant environment, social and emotional connections to food, chronic ineffective dieting, and eating disorders may not resolve with bariatric surgery.
I thought, “Can this night get any worse? It feels like there’s a dark cloud following me. My boss was on my case, I was running late, the group was interrupted, the traffic was detoured, and I almost hit two deer!
There are many proven strategies for overcoming the inertia of the familiar that we’ve incorporated into our books and mindful eating programs. Perhaps one or two of these strategies will help you get unstuck too!
At 643 pounds, Jeff Butts was running out of time and running out of options. For Jeff, the combination of bariatric surgery and the Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Program has given him a new lease on life.