You’ve been successfully fitted with your Slimband. Congratulations! The Slimband adjustable gastric band is a useful tool in your quest to shed those excess pounds. But the Slimband alone is not enough. From here on in you need to use various supports and life skills if you’re to successfully reach your goal weight: Effective Strategies [...]

A new study published in the Journal of Physiology has shown that exercising before breakfast can negate the pitfalls of high fat, high calorie diets. Belgian researchers recruited 28 healthy, young men, and divided them into 3 groups. All 3 groups consumed a diet that contained 50 per cent more fat and 30 per cent [...]

Losing weight initially is like winning one battle in a long war. The joy of the victory is great, but you want to win the war and maintain your weight loss too. Adding a bit of exercise to your routine is an effective way to keep the weight off, and, as new research shows, it [...]

Don’t get me wrong, exercise is good for you and should definitely be regularly included into your regime, however according to this article obsessive exercise can also become a roadblock. How you ask? Let me explain. Exercise burns calories which in turn makes you lose weight however exercise has another side-effect: it stimulates hunger. This [...]

In less than 2 weeks I will be participating in the Beaches Jazz Tune Up 5K Walk with Slimband colleagues, patients and MySlimband members. I am very excited about this because I feel not only is it away for myself to get more active this summer in a fun way, but I believe this event [...]

I have decided to list some good workout songs. I’ve broken them down into “moods”. When I’m working out, doing cardio, pumping weights chillaxing with yoga, or even just in everyday life the following tunes help distract me and sometimes make myself push harder when I’m ready to quit. Now I have a rather eclectic [...]