Bariatric Medicine Institute

09/01/2025

Mark your calendars for our upcoming support groupss. The first one is with Dr. Mooers on Wednesday at 12:30 PM.

08/26/2025

Tip Tuesday: Prioritizing sleep is important for weight loss. Getting enough sleep helps regulate the appetite hormones, ghrelin and leptin. Enough sleep also boosts metabolism and increases insulin sensitivity. People who are sleep deprived also tend to make poor food choices, so prioritize sleep.

08/20/2025

Why drinking and weight loss don’t mix.

Alcohol plays a large role in weight loss and weight management. Anyone looking to drop those final stubborn pounds may want to consider skipping their evening glass of wine and the empty calories it provides. Here are eight ways alcohol can impede you on your weight loss journey, and what you shoul...

08/19/2025

Tip Tuesday: Alcohol can be very detrimental for your weight loss. Alcohol is high in calories and doesn’t add to your satiety. Alcohol slows down your body’s metabolism and can stimulate your appetite. Hormonal changes, including those that promote fat storage and slow metabolism, are also associated with alcohol consumption. So as you try to lose weight and maintain that weight loss, it is important to limit your alcohol consumption as much as possible.

08/18/2025

Great ideas on foods to avoid and what to eat instead.

We all know to avoid processed foods, but did you know there’s actually an entire new category of food that’s ultra-processed? Here’s how ultra-processed food is made, a list of foods to avoid, and how processed foods are defined differently than ultra-processed foods.

08/14/2025

Dr. Cottam and Dr. Moores enjoyed hosting surgeons from Brooklyn, New York and Calgary, Canada this week. They were able to teach them about the Loop Duodenal Switch, and these surgeons were able to watch Dr. Cottam perform this life-changing surgery. Hopefully they can implement it into their practices.

08/12/2025

Tip Tuesday: Avoid all ultra processed foods. These foods tend to be high in unhealthy fats, sugar, and salt. They include foods such as bagged chips, ready to eat meals, soda, and processed meats. They are designed to not fill you up and make you want to eat more.

08/06/2025

Ideas for healthy lunches

These healthy lunch ideas are perfect for work or school! They include easy-to-pack recipes for salads, sandwiches, soups, and more.

08/05/2025

Tip Tuesday: With the school year starting up again soon, it’s important to focus on making healthy, homemade lunches for you and your family. Many popular lunch items are processed foods that are high in salt, carbs, and unhealthy fats. You can make healthier lunches for your family by focusing on protein, fruits, and vegetables. Meat and cheese wrapped in low-carb tortillas, cheese sticks, carrot sticks, celery sticks, berries, sliced apples and peanut butter, and hummus are all good choices. Changing the way you pack lunches can change the health of you and your whole family.

08/01/2025

Mark your calendars for our upcoming support groups!

07/31/2025

Congratulations to Nilsa Tafunq! She is doing amazing. This is how her life has changed since surgery in her own words: “To me it feels like I’m going slow, but I am still amazed at my progress. I can’t even say that this surgery gave me my life back because my life is so much better than what it was before a medication made me gain 72lbs, made my A1C diabetic, AND killed my metabolism. I went from not being able to do more than one clinical at school back-to-back because my legs would swell so much that my compression socks would cut into my skin. I could barely limp 8k steps. Also, I went from not being able to play pickle ball with my kids and staying home while they went and played because I didn’t want to keep telling them how much it hurt to be on my feet every time they asked for me to come play. I missed out on family time. Now I definitely go play with my kids. My feet swell but not even 1/8 of what it was. I can definitely do more than 10k steps and it doesn’t even phase me.. not even with a bone spur on my knee which hasn’t bothered me at all. There have been nights that I’ve done close to 20k steps and I’m still good.” Way to go! Keep up the hard work, Nilsa!
“The picture on the left was 3 weeks before surgery at the end of November and I weighed 284lbs. I was wearing a 2XL scrub set. The one on the right in me at 197lbs wearing M scrub pants and L top.”

07/29/2025

Tip Tuesday: Don’t eat out of the container. When you want to eat something, dish it up into a reasonable sized portion. Don’t just eat out of the container because when you do, you tend to eat a lot more than you had planned.