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5 Easy Cardio Workouts You Can Do at Home

 Today, we’re back with a list of cardio workouts you can do at home to get your sweat on! Whatever your fitness goals – losing weight, toning, coming back from an injury – these workouts will get your blood flowing and calories burning. Here are just a few of our favorite at-home workouts.
Morgan Schaack, Bariatric Dietitian and Personal Trainer
2 years ago
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Heart Rate Zone Training for Fat Loss and Improved Health

Your heart is one of the most important muscles in your body. Although many people don’t look at it as a muscle because they can not artificially see it. Targeting your heart rate zone during exercise is a great “muscle building” attribute you can bring to the table. Simply put, your heart rate is the […]
Morgan Schaack, Bariatric Dietitian and Personal Trainer
3 years ago
Maintaining Motivation after Bariatric Surgery

Video Blog: Maintaining the Motivation to Lose Weight

Motivation is the set of forces that activate, guide and maintain our behaviors in order to meet a goal. In other words, motivation is the reason(s) behind why you do what you do. The word motivation comes from a Latin word that means “to move”, therefore motivation implies effort and action—as in doing.
Connie Stapleton, Bariatric Psychology
3 years ago
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Why You Should Train and Not Workout

The alarm goes off at 5:15 AM. I drudgingly roll out of bed (after snoozing for 15 minutes) and slip into my workout clothes. As I lace up my sneakers, I think of every excuse not to go to the gym—”I worked out hard yesterday. I am sore. I have a long day at work today. I […]
Morgan Schaack, Bariatric Dietitian and Personal Trainer
3 years ago
Misleading Hunger Signals after Bariatric Surgery

Misleading Hunger Signals after Bariatric Surgery

Is this feeling really hunger? It may sound a bit odd, but many people genuinely cannot tell if they’re physically hungry or if what they’re experiencing is a misleading hunger signal. A what? Misleading… Hunger… Signal. Sometimes you think you’re hungry, and you may even experience physiological signs that feel like genuine physical hunger. Still, you ate an adequate meal […]
Connie Stapleton, Bariatric Psychology
3 years ago
How to overcome emotional eating after weight loss surgery

Head Hunger: Steps to Avoid Eating Your Emotions

It’s late on Thursday night. You’ve worked all day, the kids are in bed and now it’s time for you to study. The professor has assigned a lengthy reading assignment. You sit down and barely make it to the third page before you’re fidgeting, distracted, and … bored by the content. Mindlessly, you set the […]
Connie Stapleton, Bariatric Psychology
3 years ago
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How to Overcome Stress Eating

Stress eating, or “emotional eating” seems to be as common a problem as mosquitos at a Fourth of July picnic! In fact, when I work with patients who are struggling with weight regain, the majority of them attribute the increase in pounds to “stress.” I remind each of them, in a playful, yet serious way, […]
Connie Stapleton, Bariatric Psychology
3 years ago