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Smart Start Menus – #1
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Smart Start Menus – #1

Smart Start Menu Series

Smart Start Menus – #1

Eating healthy is probably the most important thing you can do for yourself. Giving your body the nutrients it needs, can help you function at your peak while keeping your weight in check. The problem for many of us is not that we don't want to eat healthy, but that we don't always know how to eat healthy. You may know you need more fruits and veggies, but what you really need to know is how to sneak more into your diet. These Smart Start menus are a good road map to putting it all together. You can follow them exactly or use them as an example and make adjustments according to your taste.

Smart Start Menus – #1Gabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Eating Mindfully After Weight Loss Surgery
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Eating Mindfully After Weight Loss Surgery

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Eating Mindfully After Weight Loss Surgery

While the disappearance of hunger is almost instantaneous after you start eating, the arrival of pleasant fullness takes some time. The less you eat during the time that it takes the stomach to notify your brain that it is full, the less you will overeat. The solution is obvious: slow down

Eating Mindfully After Weight Loss SurgeryGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Nurture A Desire to Get Healthy

What You Need to Lose Weight Despite the seemingly endless information out there, losing weight still seems like a mysterious process. We know it's fundamentally about burning more calories than we eat, and most of us have the physical tools we need to make it happen: getting in our workouts and watching our diets. Weight loss, though, is about much more than that.

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Nurture A Desire to Get HealthyGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Commit to Your Exercise Time

Successful weight losers not only commit to exercise each week, they also guard that time fiercely. The more often you show up for your workouts, no matter what you actually do during the workout, the easier it will be to make exercise a habit. These tips will help you make that commitment to exercise

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Commit to Your Exercise TimeGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Prepare for Slip-Ups

Most of us will slip up from time to time and those slips can lead to gaining weight. Most of us will be thrown off track by vacations, holidays, business travel, illnesses and life changes. It will happen. People often get frustrated when, just when they get into a solid routine, something happens to throw them off, but that's what life is all about. Sometimes just knowing it will happen can help you relax and deal with it. Some ways you can prepare yourself:

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Prepare for Slip-UpsGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Realize There’s No Quick Fix

Most people know (at least intellectually) that weight loss is a slow process. Due to all of the infomercials and questionable information out there, though, many of us have a secret belief that if we could just find that one diet/exercise/pill, it really would be quick and easy. The truth is you have to exercise and eat well most days of the week to really get where you want to go.

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Realize There’s No Quick FixGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Create Your Own Motivation

Making plans to exercise is the easy part. Following through takes a different set of skills, and it starts with realizing that you have to create your own motivation. We sometimes wait until we feel like exercising, but how much does anyone feel like exercising at 5:30 a.m.? The key is to find something, anything, that gets you moving.

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Create Your Own MotivationGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

The Experience & Record of Dr. Pedro Kuri
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The Experience & Record of Dr. Pedro Kuri

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The Experience & Record of Dr. Pedro Kuri

When considering any surgery, the education and experience of the surgeon should be at the top of your list. Dr. Kuri has been performing surgery for more than 30 years. Early on he saw the potential of the Lap-Band for improving health and overall quality of life. Dr. Kuri is celebrated and has been honored as a Latin American pioneer of Lap-Band surgery, having performed nearly 5,000 Lap-Band procedures since being certified in […]

The Experience & Record of Dr. Pedro KuriGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Make it Easy to Exercise and Eat Healthy

Losing weight is all about making healthy choices and part of that is making it easier to make those healthy choices. If you schedule a workout in the morning and force yourself to run around trying to pack your gym bag at the last minute, that isn't making exercise easy, is it? And if you promise to eat healthy but realize all you have to eat is a bag of Doritos and a pint of ice cream, how healthy will your next meal be?

Weight Loss Survival Skills – Make it Easy to Exercise and Eat HealthyGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Shrimp Caesar

While most Caesars drown the greens in a heavy dressing, this lemony version lets the taste of the shrimp shine through. Don't worry about the anchovies - they'll mellow in the dressing, giving it a rich taste that can't be duplicated.

Shrimp CaesarGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Southwestern Corn & Black Bean Salad

Here's a great make-ahead salad or side dish--and leftovers are welcome for lunch the next day. If you make it ahead, don't add the salt and pepper until just before serving. That way, the salt won't render the vegetables soggy and the pepper won't lose its bite. Scoop up this salad with warm corn tortillas.

Southwestern Corn & Black Bean SaladGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad

This streamlined version of a northern Italian idea is perfect for a summer evening: no-fuss, no-cook and big taste. You can even make it ahead and store it, covered, in the refrigerator for several days. If you do, use it as a wrap filling for the next day's lunch.

Tuscan-Style Tuna SaladGabriele Bisselle2016-12-12T22:23:46-08:00

JoAnn Jackson, RN, BSN