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• Working with a Health Coach

  Your decision to have bariatric surgery is a huge step towards a commitment to living a healthier life. As you already know, your journey will also include major lifestyle changes to help you reach your goals.

  Not only will you be eating less, you will have to give up some foods and introduce some new foods into your diet. For many patients, this means forming an entirely new relationship with food. Learning how to eat differently, how to be more active, and how to take control of your own health can sometimes seem overwhelming. To make the process easier, you may want to consider working closely with a health coach.

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• Women's Sex Lives Improve After Bariatric Surgery

  A study presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery found that nearly 70 percent of women who underwent bariatric surgery experienced an improvement in sexual function.

  Female sexual function is evaluated with the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), which assesses sexual function in 6 areas - desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain -on a scale of 2 to 36, which higher scores representing better sexual function. An overall score of 26.55 or lower indicates sexual dysfunction.

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• What to Do With Excess Skin After Weight Loss Surgery

  One of the best things about going through bariatric surgery- large amounts of weight loss- is also a burden for those that have lost a significant amount of weight and now have great amounts of excess skin.

  Excess skin may be an embarassing topic to some, but nonetheless, many weight loss surgery patients go through a daily struggle of hiding their excess skin, unable to wear the clothes they always dreamed about before surgery. Excess skin is also a health risk- it often makes patients constantly uncomfortable and more susceptible to rashes and other skin ailments caused by heavy folds of skin. Read More