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Like many folks, I keep my vitamins in the kitchen. Hand place to grab a glass of water when taking them. Many also keep them in the bathroom for pretty much the same reason. Making taking their supplements part of their daily routine.
But according to this article from smartplanet.com based on a Purdue study, you may want to move your stuff outta there… cause moisture could be making your supplements less effective.
As a WLSer, we are given a tool to help us lose weight. Along with that tool our surgeons give us a set of guidelines on how to maximize the effective use of that tool in our lives. If you follow those guidelines, you are all but guaranteed that your surgery will work, and you will not only lose weight but keep it off.
There’s just one problem. We’re human.
For many of us, rules are meant to be broken. We get complacent. We get lazy. We get… Whatever it is, there’s going to come a time where we “break the rules”.
And ya know what? That’s ok.
I recently read on another forum about a bariatric supplement company that came out with some new protein products. Right away people were asking about samples and the company rep said they don’t have any at this time in order to keep production costs, and thusly cost to the buyers down.
By the time I got through the entire thread, something struck me… nobody had asked for a FREE sample.
If you do some research, weight loss surgery (WLS) is one of the most successful treatments for morbid obesity. But even with all WLS has going for it, there are still a lot of folks who struggle with it, either not maintaining a desirable weight loss, or even gaining enough weight back to be considered a “failure” by the medical definitions.
There are lots of lists out there to give you some information about how to succeed/not fail at this… here’s ten things I see that a WLS patient needs to keep focused on to maximize their chances of not just reaching their goal, but maintaining for the long haul.
There’s nothing here I haven’t seen talked about again and again, and if you’ve done any sort of research so far yourself, this won’t be new to you either. BUT, they are all well worth repeating.
1 – Lead your horse to water and make him drink!
Everyone talks about getting enough water. If you haven’t gotten this through your head… move your keyboard and smack it on your desk a few times until you do. C’mon! Is there any excuse for not getting enough water?
