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To celebrate the upcoming ObesityHelp National Conference, we’ve partnered with one of our amazing sponsors, Building Blocks Vitamins! 

There will be one winner selected at random to receive the entire giveaway bundle:

• 1 Box of Ostrim Meat Sticks (Teriyaki)
• 1 B12 Vitamin Mist Spray (Spearmint)
• 1 Bottle of Anti-Ox (Cherry)
• 1 Bottle of Calcium (Black Raspberry)
• 1 Bottle of Multi (Mixed Berry)
• 1 Bottle of Iron (Black Raspberry)
• 1 MedCenter 7 Day Traveler
• 1 MedCenter 31 Day Organizer with Alarm
  
  

 Stop by for more details about the Giveaway & to see all the ways that you can enter! 

To celebrate the upcoming ObesityHelp National Conference, we’ve partnered with one of our amazing exhibitors, CLICK™ ! If you love coffee, then this giveaway is for you. CLICK™  is packed with 15 grams of protein, two shots of real espresso coffee and 23 vitamins and minerals. 

There will be one winner selected at random to receive the entire giveaway package:

1. Four Canisters of CLICK™  (Mocha, Vanilla Latte, Decaf Mocha, Caramel)
2. CLICK™  Pink Acrylic Tumbler (16.9 oz capacity)
3. Ninja Master Prep Pro (crushes ice, chops and blends 2X faster!)
4. BONUS: 50 Ways to CLICK™  recipe booklet by Bariatric Foodie (This will be the 1st publicly released copy, the rest will be available at the ObesityHelp Conference!)

"CLICK!" for more details about the Giveaway & to see the ways that you can enter! 

Have you entered our Giveaway of MantraBands? Make sure you don't miss this great giveaway!

What's your mantra?

What's Your Mantra? 

Live In The Moment

Enjoy The Journey

Let Your Light Shine

Believe

Choose Joy

 

Join the new ObesityHelp GiveAway!

ObesityHelp is honored to have MasterChef and MasterChef Junior Judge Graham Elliot join our ObesityHelp National Conference 2014.  Not only is he a critically acclaimed chef, television personality and one of the most recognized faces in cooking today, he is a successful Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) post-ops.  In less than one year, Graham has lost an amazing 150 pounds, and changed his health and his life.  Graham will share his insights and engage with our attendees for an open question/answer portion of his keynote.

We hope you'll join us and be inspired by Graham's success along with the other fun, education and support that our attendees walk away with from attending our Conferences.  We hope to see you at our 2014 Conference with Graham Elliot.

Are you joining us in LA for the 2014 ObesityHelp Conference, August 15-16?

Today is the final day to get the Early Bird Ticket price of $50! Tomorrow the price will be $75.

Register Now: http://events.obesityhelp.com/purchase/

 

Join our events page on Facebook to see which of your friends are already attending!

A new redesign of ObesityHelp is coming soon!

We've posted information about the upcoming launch on our OH Blog along with screen shots of some of the areas and preview it for yourself on our beta site.  (WARNING:  If you input any information into the beta site, it will NOT be transferred to the launched production site.)

Stay tuned for the exciting launch!!

 

What are your goals?  OH has a goal system for members that helps members to reach their goals!  We have lots of different goals that members are working on that you can use or create a new goal of your own. 
We have 723 people (and 78 private) are working towards buying clothes at a regular store - not a plus size store 

552 people (and 48 private) have achieved this goal
2 people updated their goal within the last week
1 person achieved within the last week

Join our members for the goal of "Buy clothes at a regular store-not a plus size store."  

Got other goals you want to work on or have already achieved?   Use our ObesityHelp Goal System by clicking "Count me in"!!    You've never had so much fun working on, and achieving, a goal.  

If you have already achieved your goals, you can help us to support other members that are working on their own goals.  At the bottom of each goal, there is an area for comments.  Use your voice of experience to provide support and share your own success by commenting so other members can be inspired by you. 

As members of ObesityHelp, we are making the journey together!!

If you find yourself mindlessly going to the kitchen or craving a trigger food, chances are that you want to manage your emotions by emotional eating.  Good friend of ObesityHelp, Mary Jo Rapini, LPC, wrote an article with the list below (thanks Mary Jo!).  We've found it a great checklist to use before you take the next bite of emotional eating and managing your feelings in a healthy, non-food way. 

Please comment below with your thoughts on this list.  If you have another item to add to this list, please add it to the comments below.  THANKS!!

1. Open the freezer door of your refrigerator and breath slow while counting to ten (the cold air helps distract from the thought of eating).

2. Jump or march in place for ten seconds.

3. Open the door, go outside and find ten things that are beautiful.

4. Splash your face with cold water.

5. Write down five reasons this food will not help you cope.

6. Call a friend, mom, or dad.

7. Play a computer game.

8. Go outside and pull weeds for three to five minutes.

9. Be a walk-in for a pedicure.

10. Be a walk-in for a massage.

11. Go to the book store (one without coffee or pastries).

12. Window shop and write down one item you want to buy that will look pretty or masculine if you don’t gain weight.

13. Tell someone you love them.

14. Ask someone why they love you.

15. Write down any and all people who have hurt you in your life. Next to each name write down why they still take up space in your head and heart.

16. Go to a store which sells make-up and try new shades of lipstick.

17. Look through magazines for a new hair-style.

18. Write down how your weight protects you.

19. Write down what is so scary that being overweight helps you manage.

20. Write down why everything else in your life is within your control but weight isn’t. (For those of you who tell me that you cannot figure this out…I believe you can.)

21. Write down why you refuse to take charge of this addiction to certain foods. Is it the food or is it you?

22. Be open and honest with someone regarding one truth in your life.

23. Throw out all of the “bad or trigger foods” in your pantry. You can also package them up and give them to someone who doesn’t have an issue with the same trigger foods as you do.

24. Do something small that someone else will appreciate. This includes picking up someone’s paper on the sidewalk and putting it up by their door.

25. Begin a plan for healthy meals at work. Write the meals down ahead of time so when you are in a hurry you won’t be able to use having no time as an excuse.

26. Walk a dog. If you don’t have a dog, find a neighbor and ask them if you can help walk their dog.

27. Don’t be alone anymore than you have to be.

28. Have a bag of carrots at all places you usually eat and chomp on them instead of other food.

29. When the urge to eat is strong, have a list of chores that you can do to replace eating. Make sure the list is nearby and immediate. You will feel so good completing something that needs to be done.

30. Have someone you can meet up with during lonely times of the day.

31. During times of boredom write down five ways you are going to give back to make someone else’s life better this next week. Begin the list during times you are bored.

32. Go to the library and look at interesting books.

33. If you have been hurt sexually in your past, get in touch with that. If it is too painful to think about, that is a sign you need to talk with a counselor—it is part of the reason for your out of control eating.

34. If your marriage is unhappy, talk to your spouse today. Try not to be critical but know it is underneath your need to eat. Stop sacrificing your health and put the focus back on the relationship.

35. If you are unhappy living alone, write an ad and/or tell friends you are looking for a roommate. Living alone is difficult and not healthy for many people. We are social creatures, we need others. Also living alone with a weight problem keeps it going as there is too much alone time and isolation from others.

36. If you are a single mom or dad, begin a babysitting co-op. It is a good way to meet other parents and will afford you the chance to get out while another parent watches your child in turn for you watching theirs.

37. Find other people who struggle with their weight. Talk to them.

38. Join or organize a group who will exercise, hunt, or play ball. Any activity is good.

39. Join a church. Churches offer support, community, and a place for spiritual enrichment.

40. Take a bible study course, sometimes accepting God into your life heals the food addiction.

41. Get a set of dumbbells for your home. When you are bored, you can lift weights in front of the TV which is usually on when we are bored.

42. Take a class from leisure learning or your local university. Learning new things reminds you that you’re bigger than the food addiction.

43. Hug your children, spouse, and friends more than you are used to.

44. Whenever possible, walk. Park your car further away, walk instead of emailing a colleague, and always walk with your spouse and/or children. Obese people who stop walking really do stop believing they can overcome their weight problem.

45. Get a Karaoke machine or sing to the radio. Sing, sing, and sing. Singing is magical and you cannot eat and sing. It doesn’t matter how out of tune you are, just sing. Sing in the car instead of stopping for fast food, sing when you are alone at night instead of eating, and sing when you are shopping so you won’t sit down and eat.

46. Drum to the beat of a song on the radio or your computer. You cannot eat and drum.

47. Carry a toothbrush and toothpaste and brush your teeth often. Your teeth will look better and food doesn’t taste as good after brushing. Brushing breaks the cycle of eating.

48. If you break down and buy a trigger food, take out one serving only and throw the rest of it away, or give it to someone else.

49. Add up all the money (every receipt from fast food too) you have spent on food and challenge yourself to plan a vacation in the next six months. Take the excess money from food and put it toward your vacation account. People are amazed at what they spend on food for a week. Many times they spend mindlessly. Just as smokers forget how much they spend on cigarettes, people who use food to manage emotions forget how much they are spending.

50. Rinse your mouth with mouthwash often. To eliminate a craving many of my patients are rinsing their mouths with mouthwash more than six times an hour. It’s okay, they are learning to manage a feeling with a healthier habit than eating.

51. Sketch a scene. Go to the park, the museum or sketch a vase in your home. Anything is good material.

52. Finger paint with a child or by yourself. Finger paint is cheap, freeing, and it is impossible to finger paint and eat.

53. Make something with clay or paper mache’.

54. Have at least one person who knows of your struggle and is there for you. This person is someone who loves you and, when you want to binge, this person will be able to tell you that food cannot love you, but they can.

 

 

We saw a great thread with a reply by OH member Kat Kat to another member about getting back on track/regain so we wanted to share it with everyone on our blog.  Thanks Kat Kat!!

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/rny/4641844/WEIGHT-GAIN-HELP/#38508907

Kat Kat
on 8/5/13 8:30 pm
RNY on 04/15/11 with Thomas Magnuson

I know it's hard,  but you can do it!

1. Make a list of what you hated about being obese
2. Make a list of what you liked about being healthy
3. Make a Plan
4. Go back to basics.
5. Start journaling on "My Fitness Pal"
6. Put Protein first
7. Skip Refined Carbs
8. Drink plenty of water
9. Don't forget Vitamins
10. Start exercising even if it's just a short slow walk at first
11. Keep coming back here for support, even if it's just reading posts

Now get back in the game and remember, the journey starts with the first step.