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Meet our *New* Group Admin… Anne Landry Holton
Author – Anne Holton, Admin – BE Support Group on Facebook Good morning, BE friends! I’m enjoying a cup o’Bella this morning, thinking about the million things I need to do to prepare for Thanksgiving....
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Party Food! BE Support Group Member – Helen Peck Humphress
Every now and then a member just flat out nails it! This was the New year Eve message posted by Bariatric Eating Support Group member Helen Peck Humphress – she and her husband are a bariatric surgery...
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Willpower or Resolve?
After bariatric surgery, there are foods that are foods that are a big fat NO – the candy in the jar at office, birthday cake, the soda in your fridge, Chinese take out, Pizza Hut Delivery, rice,...
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What medications are off limits after my bariatric surgery?
“What medications do I take for pain if I have had bariatric surgery?” The short answer? TYLENOL. Take Tylenol for minor pain. It’s effectiveness will surprise you as surgery has changed the...
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The BE Bariatric Grocery List! Add your favorites too.
The whole is a sum of its parts. Since a whole is the sum of its parts, if you cook with low carb and healthy ingredients, your finished dish will always be low carb and healthy. No need for...
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‘I didn’t have weight loss surgery to live on a diet!’
The full quote is usually ‘I didn’t have weight loss surgery to live on a diet for the rest of my life!’ Uhhh huh, oh yes we did! When bariatric post ops utter this standard ‘hand on hips’ diet...
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Why Protein Powder Works
Small Volume High Reward Powders are the way to add high protein to your diet without the bulk and calories of other protein sources. This is what makes a protein drink ideal for a bariatric post op....
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Top 10 Bariatric Post Op Mistakes
Post Ops Need Help! We recently asked an innocent question about hunger on Facebook and were not prepared when the floodgates opened with an outpouring of post ops not making changes needed to make it...
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Why ‘Everything in Moderation’ is Bariatric Baloney
If I told you we were giving $100 to every person who correctly guessed which woman in the images above had just said ‘Everything in Moderation’ before diving into her food, who would you choose for...
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8 Foods Picks of Overweight People
Foods are not all equal when it comes to how they impact our body weight. We all know someone who can eat anything and not gain weight. Having bariatric surgery didn’t turn me into one of them! It has...
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Not what you want to hear! BARIATRIC NO’s
Don’t Expect Change Without Making One! Don’t eat that bread. That latte has 45 grams of sugar! No macaroni salad. Ummm, NO, you don’t NEED crunch. NO tortillas. No rice. Drop the crackers. You don’t...
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Do you have Fatbrain?
Many times we see confusion about a word that we use frequently in our Facebook Support groups. That word? Fatbrain. It stings. BUT….there’s a reason it stings. See we talk about Fatbrain a lot here...
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USE A SMALL PLATE… and other not so crazy food tricks
Reason your way through your impulse eating and cravings rather than just jumping off the ledge. Give these suggestions some consideration. They’ll help you reduce your calorie intake, have greater...
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BEE KETO BARIATRIC PLAN
KETO BARIATRIC means embrace the low carb but not the high fat! Keto keto keto… it’s all you hear about and it’s EVERYWHERE. In fact, if we did not have bariatric surgery, WE WOULD ALL BE CARD CARRYING...
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Matt’s Top 5 Ways To Stay on Track
Matt Frassica, Admin for BariatricEating Support, BariatricEating 101, and No More Bariatric Regain shares his tips to losing the weight and KEEPING IT OFF Losing 150 pounds and going from a size 48...
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Halloween is JUST the Beginning
This morning there was a HUGE sign in the window of Dunkin Donuts promoting TWO DOZEN for 11.99 – FALL DEAL. One dozen is 8.99 (I looked it up online… hehehe) which means the second dozen is $3. The...
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Home Again Flanagan! My Gastric Bypass Story
Home again, Flanagan! I don’t know where that saying came from, except that my Mum used to say it every time we got home from somewhere. It was as vital a saying while growing up as “put your clicks...
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What’s My Secret? Hair Balance!
What’s the #1 Question in our Facebook Support Groups? WHAT Do I Do About My Hair? It’s Falling out! Let’s face it, hair loss is devastating. To see a man with a distinct baldness pattern is normal,...
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Meet The Admins: Leanda Griffin
Hi, I’m Leanda Griffin. I had RNY Gastric Bypass in December 2002 with a SW of 285 lbs. Being obese most of my life and losing and gaining weight like a yo-yo wasn’t working. My son deserved a mom who...
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What’s The Plan, Man? Matt’s Bariatric Kitchen.
Let me start by saying that I do not weigh, measure, count, or track anything that I eat. And yet, I can tell you with 100% certainty that I am fully on plan and eating right. How do I know? It’s all...
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