Make the Move to Mindfulness
By Kishani Turner BARIATRIC DIETITIAN For most it is long journey to the point of considering or undertaking bariatric surgery. Many feel like they have failed having exhausted every diet or weight loss measure. Others have given up exhausted by monitoring their weight, intake & exercise, let alone the plethora of confusing information. If only […]
Reading Labels after Weight Loss Surgery
After Bariatric surgery the quality of your food is important as the quantity is so small. We encourage you to use unprocessed natural foods as much as possible, limiting artificially sweetened and diet foods. It is also important to make choices low in both sugars and fats so as to avoid any possible Dumping Syndrome. […]
Don’t Ditch the Carbs
By Sally-Anne Livock Bariatric Dietitian Bariatric surgery does not mean goodbye to carbs! ⠀ ⠀ It amazes me how often I hear “I don’t eat carbs any more”⠀ ⠀ Carbs – whole grains, cereals, rice, pasta and noodles, and the potato family all supply essential nutrition. They are good sources of B vitamins, dietary fibre, folate […]
Bariatric Multivitamins
By Sally-Anne Livock Bariatric Dietitian We can not stress enough how important it is to take a vitamin and mineral supplement for life after bariatric surgery. We always take time to explain why this is important in our pre surgery consultations, and I’d like to summarise just why this is so important. Often we see […]