We all know that obesity is often co-associated with self -image challenges that frequently result in depression, anxiety and quality of life challenges. At The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego, Dr Andrew Johnson presented a study showing that extremely obese adults after receiving weight loss surgery demonstrate not only better physical health [...]
Archive of posts tagged psychological
The Curse of the Yo-Yo Dieter
There’s an old saying, everyone knows it, ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, and try again’. Good advice unless the task at hand happens to be going on a diet. When it comes to diets it should read, “Don’t try, don’t try again”. Now don’t get me wrong, if you’re overweight and intent on [...]
Inspiration, Depression and Weight Loss
Often us website writers run into days and even weeks when the words just don’t seem to appear. The last 2 weeks have been like that for me. I’m the kind of guy that asks for help when I run into a road block, so I posted a message here on WL&S Support asking for [...]
Perceptions on Obesity
Author: Marshall Melnychuk If you have young children like I do then Dr. Seuss books are probably well known to you. One of my favourites is “The Sneetches” and while my children like it because of the illustrations of Sylvester McMonkey McBean’s wild machines and the wonderful rhythm, I continue to read it because the [...]
10 Best Life Changing Questions Ever!
Author Ron Merk Up to now, I’ve never really shared with my family or friends that I am and have been a certified Personal/Life Coach for more than 10 years. I’ll tell you why at the end of this article. Today is about questions! Very POWERFUL questions that help and lead people to discover what [...]
How To Change Your Eating Behaviour
Author Ron Merk Being obese doesn’t happen overnight. It often happens over years. Whether we realize it of not, it is a combination of many factors all coming together that results in constant sustained weight gain. In simple terms it includes physiological drivers that cause us to eat, eating the wrong foods, eating too much [...]
Too Skinny Shortens Life, Study Says
Author: Ron Merk Did you every think you’d hear on our Weight Loss Surgery Support site that it’s possible to be too skinny? Well, there’s a 1st time for everything and apparently according to a new research paper using informations from Stats Canada, it’s true. (and we thought are tax dollars get wasted.) The study, [...]
Why Do We Eat, Eat, Eat?
Author: Ron Merk This has been a tough article for me to write. I’ve made a dozen starts and each time it just didn’t read the way I felt inside. If you’re like me, you’ve fought being overweight most of your life. Frankly in my case, I failed miserably. Every year I put more pounds [...]
Changing The Way We Think About Traditional Weight Loss
Source – St Petersburg Times Anyone exploring how to lose weight has already heard the story: “It’s all about input vs. output, eating less calories and burning more calories.” However, many people still prefer going the diet route, searching for the illusive quick fix. They fail to realize that the fundamentals of nutrition are often [...]
New Survey Shows – Bariatric Patients Are Happier & Healthier
A new study out of Canada finds that post-operative weight loss surgery patients are happier and healthier after bariatric surgery than they were prior. The Weight Loss Benefits survey for bariatric surgery patients examined the outcomes of 386 post-operative patients from across the Great White North.
