Product Review: Enlightened® Broad Bean Crisps Name of Product: Enlightened® Broad Bean Crisps Where it was purchased: HyVee ‘Health Food Section’ (local grocery store in the Midwest) Cost: $3 for 3.5 oz bag How it might be used: A salty snack craving that won’t get you in too much trouble Thoughts/Review: At first bite … Continue reading "Product Review: Enlightened® Broad Bean Crisps"
Water Apps Drink Water: – Set goal amount of daily drinking water and track it. – Log amount of daily drinking water. – Touch to log each drinking. – Customize volume of each glass of water. – Customize how much of water you drink each time, 1/4 glass, 1/2 glass – Plan drinking schedule and … Continue reading "Best Bariatric Surgery Phone Apps (Revised Edition: 2017)"
Product Review: Campbells® Oven Sauces Name of Product: Campbells® Oven Sauce – Classic Roasted Chicken Where it was purchased: Walmart Cost: $2.44 How it might be used: Perfect for a home cooked meal that didn’t take you near the time of making one! Thoughts/Review: The amount of work on this meal is just awesome. … Continue reading "Product Review: Campbells® Oven Sauces – Classic Roasted Chicken"
Members Stories: A Few Days with LaChez – Scroll down to read more about LaChez & see her transformation! Breakfast I am a creature of habit. So, most days this week, you will see an egg and turkey bacon in my food journal for Breakfast. This is my favorite and is a quick and easy go … Continue reading "Members Stories: A Few Days with LaChez"
Weight Loss Surgery and Weight Watchers I’ve been posting a blog series called “Popular Diets and WLS” because it’s SO COMMON that after the honeymoon phase of bariatric surgery is over, the scale stops moving so fast. Or even…the wrong way. And when this happens patients ask me if other diets will help after … Continue reading "Popular Diets and WLS Weight Watchers® “Beyond the Scale”"
Product Review: Halo Top Ice Cream (Chocolate Mocha Chip Flavor) I have seen pictures of both Halo Top AND Enlightened Ice Cream ALL OVER my Instagram Feed and I’ve always been a little worried it was getting more attention than it should to stay on track of post-op weight loss. BUT being someone who tries … Continue reading "Product Review: Halo Top Ice Cream"
Cauliflower Rice Steamer Bag It’s product review time! Have you seen this bag in the freezer section? Cauliflower Rice Lightly Sauced with Savory Herb. *Have you noticed? There is ALWAYS something new coming on to the market and these reviews serve as a way to get informed about what others are finding to help them on their … Continue reading "Product Review: Cauliflower Rice Steamer Bag"
It’s product review time! This time around we’re talking about the new Quest Cereal Bars which come in Waffle, Cinnamon Roll and Chocolate. Have you noticed? There is ALWAYS something new coming on to the market and these reviews serve as a way to get informed about what others are finding to help them on … Continue reading "Product Review: Quest Cereal Bars – Waffle Flavored"
Find and follow post-op WLS patients on Instagram and save their meal ideas or recipes for later! Did you know?? Instagram now has FOLDERS that you can save posts to! Not unlike Pinterest, you can now create “Collections” similar to a “Board” on Pinterest. Instagram has really picked up steam and is such a … Continue reading "Saving WLS Recipes on Instagram – How to Create “Collections”"
Welcome to Edition Three of “Popular Diets and WLS” – The Whole 30® Read Edition One: The Ketogenic Diet Read Edition Two: The Vegan Diet What is the “Whole 30” Diet? The Whole 30® is a trademarked program and more can be found on their website as well as the published book. The website states the … Continue reading "Popular Diets & WLS: Edition 3 “Whole 30”"
