Category: Weight Loss Guide
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Waiting Period Before Bariatric Surgery May Be Unnecessary
If you are relying on your health insurance provider to cover the costs related to your bariatric surgery, you may have heard about the mandatory waiting period. Many insurance companies require a patient to wait up to six months from receiving approval before they can have the actual surgery.
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Bariatric Surgery Can Resolve Female Sexual Dysfunction
Morbidly obese women suffering from Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) who undergo bariatric surgery, whether Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding or Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery, can experience significant improvement in all aspects of their sexual function as quickly as six months after the procedure, according to recent research.
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Is Diet or Exercise the Answer to Weight Loss?
When you embark on a campaign to lose weight, you should know the first rule of weight loss: burn more calories than you consume. But what’s the most effective way to do that? Should you diet, exercise, or do both?
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Metabolism and Weight Loss—How You Burn Calories
Your metabolism has a reputation for being the culprit behind weight gain and obesity. In many people’s minds, a slow metabolism is to blame for their inability to lose weight while a friend who may eat the same amount of food doesn’t gain a pound. The truth is, however, that metabolism doesn’t work the way…
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The Mental Side of Weight Loss
For some people, struggling to lose weight is a result of insufficient education or misinformation—they simply don’t know what they need to do to achieve a healthy lifestyle. However, many other people who try and fail to lose weight know what they should do, but they consistently have a problem implementing that knowledge. If you…
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Maintaining a Healthy Weight
After working hard and making significant lifestyle changes, you’ve reached your weight loss goals. Congratulations! Now what?
