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Regaining Your Health

Posted by on Mar 27, 2013 in childrens health, eat for health, food, Womens Health

As a country, many people are overweight and out of shape. The hit television show Biggest Loser, which usually only focuses on adults even had children on the show this season to help bring awareness to the issue of childhood obesity. For many people getting back in shape simply means eating right and becoming as active as our bodies will allow us to be. However, for some exercise and eating right just aren’t enough. In these instances more significant measures must be considered, such as being placed on a bariatric diet or undergoing surgery.

Do you qualify?

The first question a potential patient for this type of surgery needs to ask their physician may seem like a bit of an odd one. Do you qualify for the surgery? Yes, there are specific criteria patients must meet before the procedure can be considered. For example, you qualify if your Body Mass Index or BMI is 40 or above. You may also qualify if your BMI is 30-39 and you have a serious weight related health issue such as type 2 Diabetes.

Pre-Surgery Diet

Once you qualify for the surgery, your surgeon may place you on a strict pre-surgery diet. This regimen will help prepare you mentally and physically for life after your surgery.  Changing your diet prior to surgery can also have an impact on the success of the surgery itself as it will help shrink the size of your liver making it easier for the surgeon to see. Your pre-surgery routine will typically begin one to two months before your scheduled procedure. The diet will be high in protein and low in calories, approximately 800-1200 a day.

Post-Surgery Recovery and Diet

Recovering from any major medical procedure takes time. No two people recover exactly the same way, so do not be discouraged if you are not seeing the results a friend did as soon as they did. The results will come in time. Your diet post-surgery will change through a course of five stages from liquid to pureed and finally regular foods. Your medical team will advise you as you work through the recovery process on what to eat and when.

A bariatric diet and both pre and post-surgery are important to ensure the success of which ever procedure the patient and their medical team deem right. Think of this lifestyle change as a chance to regain your health and get begin a new active life.

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ProShape Rx is the Healthy Alternative to Painful Diets and Boring Meal Plans 1

ProShape Rx is the Healthy Alternative to Painful Diets and Boring Meal Plans

Posted by on Feb 23, 2012 in eat for health, Live Green, Womens Health

ProShape Rx is the Healthy Alternative to Painful Diets and Boring Meal Plans

Say goodbye to dreadful diets, and repetitive meal plans, and replace them with a healthy alternative- Pro shape RX

The roller coaster ride of weight loss takes many shapes and sizes. There are so many diets on the market today it is hard to keep track of which one is the flavor of the month. Just turn on the TV or pick up a supermarket magazine and inevitably you will read of yet one more celebrity touting promises of how they managed to lose weight. There are countless claims of how you can just eat certain types of food at certain times of the day and you are assured weight loss success.

How many times have you tried the South Beach diet and had to swear off fruit and bread seemingly forever? How many times have you tried the grapefruit diet and succumbed to eating so many grapefruits even the sight of one made you nauseous? What about the cabbage soup old standby that had you running to the washroom countless times a day? If it’s not Oprah promising you a thinner body, then it’s Pamela Anderson. And if it’s not Pamela Anderson then it’s Kirstie Alley. But it is hard to believe those celebrities claims and harder yet to be able to compare their lives when they have access to personal trainers and their own chefs to keep them out of the fridge at night.

But somehow we keep on trying those endless cycles of diets day after day. All the promises seem enticing. Just stop eating carbs and you’ll lose weight. Just stop eating after 7pm and you’ll lose weight. Just eat soup and you’ll lose weight. Just cut out sugar and you’ll lose weight. Just eat fruit and you’ll lose weight. Some diet plans have you eating such bland food day after day, you almost feel sick to your stomach at just the thought of eating another rice cake. Although not eating anything will be effective, it is very unhealthy and certainly not anything that anyone can do over time without have a very adverse affect on their health.

But there is another solution to dieting alone. The ProShapeRX is a weight loss supplement that is guaranteed to help you lose weight or your money back. This weight loss pill has been carefully formulated using only 100% natural ingredients including Hoodia Gordonii, the famous plant that was found in northern Africa. This plant has been used for centuries by tribesmen who needed to suppress their appetites when venturing off on long hunting trips and didn’t know when they would be able to find food. The Hoodia Gordonii is just one of the natural ingredients that are included in the ProShapeRX system to help you control your appetite and lose weight naturally and effectively.

So just following a celebrity weight loss claim is now not your only option. Using ProShapeRX for even just seven days will start to be effective. And the ProShapeRX supplement comes with a 30 day free trial, so you don’t even have to spend money to find out how effective it really is. So go ahead and give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

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