WLS Resource List
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FitDay
provides an excellent food journal where you can look up the
nutritional value of most foods and provides a way to track
your exercise, weight loss and goals. The software version
greatly enhances what is available online and allows you to
use it off line.
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WLS Lifestyles Magazine
A quarterly magazine dedicated to
inspiring, educating and supporting life after weight loss surgery.
Lamothe, Denise. Taming of the Chew, A
Holistic Guide to Stopping Compulsive Eating. NY, Penguin, 2002
With
compassion and understanding, Dr. Lamothe guides you through the
difficulties that we face controlling our tendency to engage in
emotional eating.
Click the logo for Nutritional Supplements for
Bariatric Surgery Patients
Bariatric Advantage®
provides a complete line of nutritional supplements that have been
specifically formulated to meet the unique demands of both the
pre-operative bariatric surgical candidate, as well as the
post-operative bariatric surgical patient.
Body Contouring Surgery after Weight Loss
Dr. J. Peter Rubin , is a renowned
plastic surgeon and Director of the Life After Weight
Loss Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Medical
Center, The Program specializes in body contouring for weight loss
surgery patients.
A great resource while traveling.
Listed are 1,900 healthy place to eat or natural food stores in all
50 States and includes directions.
DietMinder Personal Food & Fitness
To
successfully lose weight, you MUST know what you eat. The best
way to do that is to journal everything that goes into your mouth.
This is a good book to start journaling.
Sit and Be Fit; All Sitting Exercises
Because many of her viewers have health concerns which make standing
difficult, Mary Ann offers seated routines that accomplish the
stretching and strengthening benefits for which she is so well
known. All exercises are done sitting in a chair. Workout includes
both upper and lower body movements.
Chair Aerobics for Everyone
Designed to allow you to work at your
own pace, taking it slow if you haven't ever exercised, have
restricted mobility or are just getting back into a fitness routine.
This video is an effective alternative to conventional exercise even
if you have a physical condition that limits your mobility or are
not able to stand for a prolonged amount of time.
Senior/Elderly Easy Sitting Exercise
DVD
This is an easy exercises DVD. If you're a Senior, Elderly,
Overweight or a Patient rehabilitating from an injury or illness,
this is designed specifically for you.
Simmons, Richard, Sweatin' to the
Oldies.
Dance party exercise video by the king
of motivational exercise. People of all sizes exercise along with
Richard.
Gallop, Rick. The Glycemic Index Diet. NY,
Workman Pub, 2002.
A
good book that explains what is behind the low Glycemic Index way of
eating
Gallop, Rick, Living the GI Diet. NY, Workman Pub, 2004.
Has lots of recipes and meal plans.
Vitale, Joe. Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth
(or Anything Else) from the Inside Out. John Wiley and Sons,
2005
This is a best selling book that will help you to
visualize and achieve
your success.
Agatston,
Arthur. The South Beach Diet; Good Fats, Good Carbs Guide.
Rodale Press, 2004.
This companion to the South
Beach Diet book contains lists of foods and their glycemic index.
Find out what are not just low carb, but correct carb.
Netzer, Corinne, The Complete Book of Food
Counts. Publisher: Dell; 7 Revised edition (December 27,
2005)
Gives calories, carbs and protein
counts for thousands of foods including ethnic, fast foods, generic
and gourmet foods.
Beale, Lucy. The Complete
Idiot’s Guide Glycemic Index Weight Loss. Alpha, 2005.
A good source that explains the
glycemic index, glycemic load and how it all works. Includes
recipes and a glycemic index.
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discounts—usually 50-90% off—with popular businesses. We send the
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send the businesses a ton of new customers. That's the Groupon
magic.
Schlosberg, Suzanne. Fitness
for Dummies, 3rd edition, New York, For Dummies,
2005.
A comprehensive and entertaining
book on fitness.
Ruppell Shell, Ellen, The Hungry Gene: The
science of Fat and the Future of Thin. Atlantic Monthly Press,
2002
This book will help you
to understand yourself and why the world has such a battle with
obesity.
Vedral,
Joyce. Weight Training Made Easy; Transform Your Body in Four
Simple Steps. Warner Books, 1997
An excellent guide on using hand weights. Every exercise includes
not only a description but pictures of how to do it.
The Joyce Vedral
weight training DVD
Walsh, Peter Does this Clutter make My Butt
look Fat? Feb 5, 2008
This book provides an interesting perspective
that you cannot make healthy food choices if your environment is in
chaos. Gives tips on how to deal with clutter so that your
mind can focus on your own health and wellbeing.
Huey,
Lynda. The Complete Waterpower Workout Book. Random House,
1993
Water aerobics provides
stress free exercise especially important for those who have joint,
foot and back problems. This book is for swimmers and non-swimmers,
exercise fanatics and those who haven’t exercised in years.
Something for everyone.
Smithey, Greg, Startin' Simple Series
- Easy Aerobics. VHS
Thirty minute workout with simple
moves. Good for people with bad knees.
Lieberman, Shari. Dare to Lose. NY, Avery, 2002
A look at how we can increase our metabolism to maintain and
increase our weight loss.
Ozium .8oz Travel size
The purse or pocket size
Stolove, Jodi, Chair Dancing, More Sit
Down and Tone Up. DVD
An excellent video for those who have
bad knees, legs, or back. Allows you to exercise all the major
muscle groups from a chair.
Big on Fitness: Full Figure Aerobics
A 50-minute VHS
video for large women. It is divided into five sections so it is
easy to just do a short workout if you want to. Suitable for any
fitness level.
Powell, Sharlyne, Women At Large - 30
Minute Workout.
Workout tape aimed at larger women.
Includes low impact aerobic dance and flexibility exercises.
Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds series of
videos
Each video provides a
great walking work-out that you do right
in your living room. Videos provide different levels of intensity.
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