The Holidays are the perfect time to be with family, friends, and co-workers celebrating at different restaurants and homes. How can you make good choices when traveling and dining out?

Some easy tips to follow:

1. Go online and review the menu PRIOR TO arriving at the restaurant so you can choose without pressure.
2. Avoid alcohol and sugary drinks. Drinking sugar will go straight to your belly because sugar stimulates the hormone insulin and insulin is our fat-storing hormone.
3. Choose a meat like grilled fish, chicken or steak without sugary sauces or glazes. (Ask for it on the side)
4. Choose steamed or roasted vegetables, even most airport restaurants allow you to order a side of veggies sautéed in olive oil or just steamed.
5. If having a salad, use vinegar & oil for the salad dressing, because most dressings contain nasty oils and too much sugar.
6. Ask to substitute carbs and starches for more veggies
7. If traveling out of town sock up on plenty of nuts, nut butters, veggies, and low sugar fruits to have packed in a cooler for the ride.
8. If flying, once you arrive at your destination stop at the local grocery store and buy fruits, vegetables, avocados, nuts, nut butters, seeds, etc so you always have something you can eat.
9. If you are staying with family for several days offer to prepare a meal so you can show off your new healthy eating and cooking habits.
10. Try to be the one picking the restaurant when dining out, most people love a leader.
11. Don’t be afraid to say, “No thank you, I’m good”! Trust me, you will feel empowered by those words.

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Enjoy your fabulous family, the dysfunction and all, because life is just too short to sweat the small stuff!
Sheri Burke, Bariatric Coordinator and Bariatric Nutritionist

P.S. Be sure to pack your favorite protein powder !

You’ve Got This!  You’ve already overcome many obstacles just to have bariatric surgery, just keep going.  Feel free to share your victories and struggles in our Facebook group. I would love to connect with you.

Make December YOUR Month!

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 Much success in your journey.

Respectfully,
International Patient Facilitators – Cancun and Tijuana, Mexico
Dr. Sergio Verboonen and Sheri Burke – Bariatric Coordinator and Nutritionist.
info@ipf-mail.com

1 800 210 5124

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Let’s face it, life is busy and we’ve been programmed to believe that we don’t have time to cook or prepare meals, and the solution is to pick up a meal-in-a-box or go through the drive-thru to feed our families. Although, there are times in life when this is truly the case, when it comes to avoiding and losing regain this cannot be the norm. It is what you are doing on a daily basis that impacts the number on the scale. Food is information and it tells your hormones and cells what to do and unfortunately, food that is packaged and processed isn’t telling your body to lose or maintain weight. 

The good news is, you don’t need a college degree to cook whole, real food, and we are here to help simplify getting dinner on the table.  In order to get back in the kitchen cooking, start simple. Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated and can be quicker than getting in your car and going through the drive-thru when you are prepared. 

Keep an open mind and an experimental attitude and being in the kitchen will be a lot more fun.  Don’t be afraid to try new foods.

The Most Important thing is just to start cooking more meals at home. 

Enjoy Dinner at Home!

Bariatric Options:                      Medical Form

Gastric Balloon
Lap Band
Mini Gastric Bypass
Full Gastric Bypass
Gastric Sleeve
Gastric Plication Surgery
Conversion or Revision Surgery
Duodenal Switch Surgery

Dr. Sergio Verboonen

Respectfully,
International Patient Facilitators – Cancun and Tijuana, Mexico
Dr. Sergio Verboonen and Sheri Burke – Bariatric Coordinator and Nutritionist.
info@ipf-mail.com

1 800 210 5124

Reach out to us if you have questions !

As a patient coordinator/ liaison and a nutritionist, I stay close with patients before, after, and many years out from surgery. Sadly, there’s often a common misconception that patients who choose to have surgery are taking the “easy way out.” Short story – IMO : going under the knife is not copping out.

I find this an unfair comment. I have never seen a patient who hasn’t carefully considered the risks of surgery or what they will have to incorporate and eliminate from their lives afterward. Proactively choosing a surgical tool, when all other measures have failed, is a courageous example of taking personal responsibility for one’s health…not a stroll down Easy Street.

When an individual meets the BMI minimum and has had no luck with a long series of diet and exercise plans- bariatric surgery could be the tool helping them regain their health.

The journey after weight loss surgery is exciting, scary, motivating and hard. As more weight is lost, confidence grows but new challenges appear. Relationships can be tested; self-esteem may soar or sink. It’s no surprise that support during this journey is essential. Research repeatedly shows patients receiving professional, non-judgmental support after surgery lose the most weight and keep it off. Since surgery is only step 1 in the weight management marathon, it’s clear to me, patients choosing this option aren’t slackers at all-more like superheroes.  

Reach out to our Forum  www.medicalchatmexico.com 

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Bariatric Options:                      Medical Form

Gastric Balloon
Lap Band
Mini Gastric Bypass
Full Gastric Bypass
Gastric Sleeve
Gastric Plication Surgery
Conversion or Revision Surgery
Duodenal Switch Surgery

     Dr. Sergio Verboonen

  Much success in your journey.

      Respectfully,
      International Patient Facilitators – Cancun and Tijuana, Mexico
      On behalf of Dr. Sergio Verboonen
      info@ipf-mail.com

      1 800 210 5124