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Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery: A Comprehensive Checklist
Weight loss surgery can be a transformative step towards a healthier life, but adequate preparation is crucial for success. This comprehensive checklist outlines everything you need to know and do before your operation, from pre-surgery consultations to es
Aug 9th, 2024
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Navigating Insurance and Financing for Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery can be a transformative step towards better health. This blog provides guidance on understanding insurance coverage, exploring financing options, and managing the costs associated with weight loss surgery.
Jul 26th, 2024
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Debunking Myths about Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, can be a life-changing solution for those struggling with severe obesity. However, many misconceptions surround these procedures, which can lead to misunderstanding and hesitation. This blog aims to deb
Jul 12th, 2024
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Fuel Your Day: 5 Delicious High-Protein Breakfast Options
For individuals committed to a healthy lifestyle or navigating through post-bariatric life, ensuring that their breakfast provides them with the necessary dose of protein is crucial. Here are five delicious recipes that offer a protein punch.
May 6th, 2024
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Bariatric Surgery: A Treatment for Diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes, the most common type, is often related to obesity and is often treated with medications, such as insulin injections. However, a surgical procedure called bariatric surgery is gaining popularity as an effective alternative treatment.
Jun 5th, 2023
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What Are The Best Ways To Gain Muscle?
When it comes to gaining muscle, it's not as simple as just hitting the gym every day and lifting weights. After your bariatric surgery, you'll need to have a solid plan in place that includes both exercise and nutrition.
May 26th, 2023
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Bariatric Surgery: When Should You Consider It?
If you are struggling with your weight, you may be wondering if bariatric surgery (weight-loss surgery) is the right option for you. This is a big decision, and it is important to weigh all of your options before making a final decision.
Feb 24th, 2023
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Regain Your Confidence After Bariatric Surgery
Weight loss surgery can be one of the biggest lifestyle changes you can make. It can also bring powerful new perspectives, hopes and challenges to your life as you work towards a healthier version of yourself.
Jan 9th, 2023
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Bariatric Surgery: Gain More From Your Life
If you are considering bariatric surgery, you are likely ready for a major change in your life. This type of surgery can be extremely beneficial in helping people lose weight and improve their health.
Jan 3rd, 2023
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Tips for Navigating Thanksgiving After Bariatric Surgery
Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends, and food. For many people who have undergone bariatric surgery, the thought of navigating Thanksgiving can be daunting. In this article, we will provide tips for celebrating Thanksgiving after bariatric surgery.
Nov 2nd, 2022
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Tips To Minimize Hair Loss After Bariatric Surgery
If you are considering bariatric surgery, you may be wondering what the side effects will be. One common side effect is temporary hair loss. Read more to learn some tips to help minimize this side effect!
Oct 11th, 2022
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What Is Dumping Syndrome?
Dumping syndrome can occur after bariatric surgery. It occurs when the stomach begins to empty too quickly. In this article we discuss the types of dumping syndrome and how it can be prevented.
Sep 24th, 2022
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How to Deal with Excess Skin After Weight Loss Surgery
While bariatric surgery has many health benefits, losing a significant amount of weight after weight loss surgery may leave you with unwanted excess skin. This can be an uncomfortable problem that causes some health issues.
Aug 26th, 2022
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Do I need Bariatric Revision Surgery?
After undergoing bariatric surgery, many patients find that they eventually need to have revision surgery. This may be due to weight regain, or other health complications. A bariatric revision surgery can offer a second chance.
Jun 30th, 2022
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Weight Loss Map after Gastric Bypass Surgery
If you're considering gastric bypass surgery, it's important to understand the weight loss process and what to expect. This map provides an estimate of how much weight you can expect to lose in the first year after surgery.
Jun 6th, 2022
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Don’t Let Negative Thoughts Take Control Of Your Health Goals
According to a recent study, negative thinking about your weight can become a cause of heart diseases and type 2 diabetes. So before you hop on that train of negativity, let’s learn about some basic techniques to achieve better health and weight loss goals
Aug 18th, 2021
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How To Prepare For Weight Loss Surgery
Preparing for a medical procedure is a daunting task. Mainly, because with any surgery, there are certain conditions attached. Moreover, you must commit to lifestyle changes as well, especially with a bariatric surgery.
Jul 30th, 2021
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Bariatric Surgery Can Help With Sleep Apnea
By losing 10 to 20% of their body weight, patients can lower their Apnea-Hypopnea score up to 25%. On the other hand, with a weight loss surgery, patients can lower the score to around 70%.
Jun 30th, 2021
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What Causes Acid Reflux?
Acid reflux is commonly seen in people who lay down after heavy meals, are overweight or obese, have unhealthy habits, have diabetes or have anatomic hernias.
May 11th, 2021

Telehealth: The Advantages of Telemedicine
Struggles to get to the clinic? Trying to reduce your exposure to COVID-19, as well as other contagious illnesses, and still need to see your doctor? Telehealth is safe and easy — receive quality care from anywhere.
Feb 20th, 2024
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Top 5 Mistakes After Bariatric Surgery
If you are considering bariatric surgery, it is important to be aware of the potential mistakes that can be made after the procedure. These mistakes can hinder your weight loss progress and even cause health problems.
Jul 29th, 2022
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Exercising After Weight Loss Surgery
Consistent exercise, along with diet, is imperative for maintaining long-term weight loss after bariatric surgery. How long do I have to wait to exercise? What are the best exercises?
Jul 15th, 2022

Do You Need To Sweat More To Burn Extra Fat?
If you are a gym goer, you can certainly understand the hype associated with a sweat drenching cardio session. In fact, that 30 to 45 minutes of cardio including a run on the treadmill, cycling and cross trainer often proved more horrible...
Jan 24th, 2021

The Positive Effects Of Exercise On Mental Health!
There is no undeniability in the fact that exercise or physical activity is essential for our overall wellbeing but gym goers mostly have certain goals in their mind. One of the biggest reasons, shedding those extra pounds of fat, get a leaner muscular...
Jan 20th, 2021

5 Tips To Start Your Weight Loss Resolution In 2021
We all love to make new year resolutions. Whether we live up to them or not is a different debate. In most cases, people come up with new year resolutions just to post on social media, boast among their friends and to look cool.
Jan 15th, 2021

Mashed Butternut Squash
As we know, Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A holiday that is usually associated with large meals and overeating, should really be focused on quality time with friends and family.
Nov 21st, 2020

Egg Muffins
If you have time, making a double batch of these is ideal. Serve some for breakfast and freeze the rest for busy mornings. They’re a great way to start the day with a healthy and filling meal, especially if you’re always in a hurry.
Nov 3rd, 2020

Top 5 Tips To Set A Monthly Weight-Loss Goal
Quarantine has put many crazy ideas into our brains but the good thing is, some of them are pretty useful for us. For instance, losing the excess weight off of our bodies. In this regard,...
Oct 20th, 2020

Shrimp Scampi Spaghetti Squash
Fall means squash is in season! I love using spaghetti squash to make my favorite pasta dishes to decrease the overall carbohydrate content.
Oct 8th, 2020

Weight Loss; Don’t Turn It Into A Struggle!
Isn’t it ironic how weight loss as a concept is very tempting but we have to give up all our temptations to finally reach the other end? Well, yes, but that’s not entirely true in the modern world.
Aug 27th, 2020

5 Tips for Eating Mindfully
When considering weight loss surgery or after having weight loss surgery at Houston Weight Loss, it is important to identify your current eating patterns.
Aug 25th, 2020

Thai Tofu Quinoa Meal Prep
Thai Tofu Quinoa Meal Prep Incorporating more plant-based proteins into your week can be beneficial to not only your cardiovascular health but to your overall weight loss goals.
Aug 25th, 2020

Obesity In The Time Of Corona Virus
Obesity itself is turning into a global menace, engulfing more and more people every day. But the other, more threatening aspect for obese people is that if they contract the Corona Virus, their treatment will be more challenging for the medics.
Jul 27th, 2020

Turkey Taco Lettuce Wraps
Yields: 6 servings | Serving Size: 1 lettuce leaf taco | Calories: 215 | Total Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 866mg | Carbohydrates: 11g | Fiber: 5g | Sugars: 4g | Protein: 16g | SmartPoints: 6 |
Jul 25th, 2020

Quinoa Avocado Salad
Ingredients 1 cup dry quinoa 2 medium avocados 3 oz. baby spinach 8 oz. cherry tomatoes 3 green onions
Jul 5th, 2020

The Secrets To Staying Healthy In A Toxic World!
We are living in conditions far from ideal. Food and water contamination are the biggest threats in our lives. But the danger doesn’t just lie there, consumer products are full of toxic substances too.
Jun 27th, 2020