by Upper GI Surgery | Jun 26, 2024 | Bariatric Surgery - Starting Out, Healthy Eating & Exercise, Life After Bariatric Surgery, Lifestyle Considerations, Weight Loss Education, Weight Loss Surgery
We’ve all been there; stuck in a rut with our weight and despite our best efforts, we still seem to end up back where we started when we check the scales. It can become incredibly disheartening, especially when you are making substantial changes and efforts to be...
by Upper GI Surgery | Apr 23, 2024 | Bariatric Surgery - Starting Out, Diet, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating & Exercise, Information, Life After Bariatric Surgery, Lifestyle Considerations, Patient Portal
If you have been researching bariatric surgery as a tool to help you return to a healthy weight and lifestyle, you will understand that your eating habits and diet following surgery will need to change significantly. Not only as a result of structural changes to the...
by Upper GI Surgery | Nov 4, 2022 | Diet, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating & Exercise, Hints & Tips, Life After Bariatric Surgery, Lifestyle Considerations, Patient Portal, Weight Loss Education
Have you noticed that your weekly shopping costs seem to be slowly increasing once you reach the checkout? According to Forbes, the federal government and Reserve Bank have forecast that inflation in Australia will peak at 7.75% in the December quarter of 2022. As a...
by Upper GI Surgery | Sep 16, 2022 | Gastric Banding, Gastric Bypass, Lifestyle Considerations, Weight Loss Education, Weight Loss Surgery
As well as creating our own content around the topic of obesity and life-changing treatment, we are constantly exploring others’ ideas and opinions. We discovered an article, A Sad Tale of 2 Bypass Surgeries, that has an interesting way of demonstrating the...
by Upper GI Surgery | Aug 5, 2022 | Bariatric Surgery - Starting Out, Life After Bariatric Surgery, Lifestyle Considerations, Weight Loss Education, Weight Loss Surgery
Nearly a million Australians (aged 18 and over) had type 2 diabetes in 2017 – 2018 (ABS). This information is only based on self-reported data, so is likely to underestimate the real prevalence of this disease. Type 2 diabetes is a complex condition in which the...
by Upper GI Surgery | Jul 22, 2022 | Bariatric Surgery - Starting Out, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating & Exercise, Lifestyle Considerations, Weight Loss Education
Obesity treatment Obesity for most people seems to be irreversible. A person wanting to lose weight (permanently) will need to significantly reduce their food intake, below that of their friends and family, in an environment where food is readily available and others...
