Healthy Eating and Exercise

Check out our Healthy Eating and Exercise Recipes on our Blog

Light Weights can add a benefit to your routine

If you add 1 pound - 3 pound weights to your routine your muscle tone will grow firmer and stronger

Weight Loss Surgery and the Gym

Not all Patients can join a Gym however all you have to do is move ~ Start Walking

Yoga is a great way to decrease stress

Exercise leveled with Healthy eating increases your ability to use your Weight Loss Surgery tools

Weight Loss Surgery gives you the tools to a Healthier Lifestyle!

Exercise is a Key ingredient after Weight Loss Surgery

Saturday, April 13, 2013

DEXA Scans (Bone Density Scan)




Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) is not for everyone and is not as they say, the "easy way out" from dieting. Your aftercare is a very important issue when you have surgery. It is so important to your health that you watch you’re eating, take your vitamins, make sure you limits your Carbs, and exercise even if you just walk to star out. Also, very important, have yearly DEXA scans which tests your Bone Density Described below:
The most common test for tracking bone density over time is the DXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) scan. A DXA (sometimes pronounced "Dexa") scan is fast, accurate, pain-free, and has very low radiation. A DXA scan provides your doctor with information about your postmenopausal osteoporosis management plan. I was diagnosed with Advanced Osteoporosis and they deemed it to be a result of my surgery. ~Sherri
Information can be found here:
http://www.prolia.com/strengthen-bones/bone-density-testing.html?WT.srch=1&channel=goog&subchannel=sea&source=GOOGSEA

I look forward to meeting you.  Look around our site.  Questions, feel free to ask! ~
Sherri