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Five Hidden Opportunities for Exercise

Life is short and our time is precious, especially when it comes to weight loss. St. Petersburg and Tampa residents know what it’s like to be super busy—between juggling work, kids and home life, finding the time to stay on top of fitness to lose weight can seem nearly impossible. Whether you’re toning and tightening [...]

Hike healthy with these high-energy trail foods

If you’re trying to lose weight this spring and summer, try getting out for a hike. The Tampa area is full of beautiful parks, with trails that offer both a strenuous, well-balanced workout and a taste of the great outdoors. Getting out of the stuffy gym and into the wild can be a breath of [...]

Health in a Nutshell

Once thought to be a disaster for any diet, nuts are now getting the credit they deserve as a potentially healthy part of any balanced diet. Though they’re high in fat, they contain healthier, unsaturated fats and have been shown to reduce the body’s levels of bad cholesterol. They’ve also been shown to reduce inflammation in the arteries, helping to lower the risk of heart attack and heart disease. Adding nuts to your diet in moderation can even help you lose weight, as they tend to fill you up quickly and are a much healthier alternative to many snack foods. [Read more]

For Weight Loss, Figure out Your Fitness Personality

Have you ever been skimming through a magazine and come across a personality test that helps you figure out what the perfect job according to your social traits would be. Depending on what personality type you are, you’re likely to fit well into certain job environments more so than others. The same goes for the fitness regimen you’re using to lose weight in St. Petersburg and Tampa. [Read more]

For Weight Loss, Avoid Stress Eating

If you have had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Aguila about your weight loss, you have probably talked with him about the cycle of obesity and how it affects your weight loss journey. When you’re severely overweight or obese, your battle with obesity tends to be cyclical. Many people trying to lose weight in St. Petersburg and the Tampa area have difficulty because their bodies fluctuate between losing weight and putting the weight back on. This cycle tends to begin with stress. [Read more]

Debunking the “Exercise Antagonism” Myth

There’s a widespread belief in the fitness world that aerobics and strength training aren’t symbiotic. Many think that, when the two types of workouts are employed in proximity to each other, strength training will reduce the impact of aerobics on the body’s endurance response and aerobics will impede muscle growth. Popularly known as “exercise antagonism” or “muscle interference,” the idea has affected the workout regimens of numerous athletes, both professional and amateur, and even professional trainers. But is exercise antagonism real and does it affect our everyday attempts to get fit and lose weight? [Read more]

Tips for Planting a Vegetable Garden

Eating more fruits and vegetables is one healthy measure that you can take as you are trying to lose weight. After weight loss surgery, your Lap Band surgeon in St. Petersburg will emphasize the importance of becoming more active and eating healthier, and it is up to you to find the time and resources to change your lifestyle habits to healthier ones. As you are incorporating more workouts and healthy meals into your weight loss plan, consider activities that can help you to accomplish more in less time. One way to do this is by starting a vegetable garden. [Read more]

Obesity Can Affect Radiation Exposure During X-Rays

As if being overweight or obese didn’t cause enough health problems—researches say obesity can lead to exposure of high radiation levels during medical scans using X-rays. In order to perform a CT scan on someone with obesity, radiologists usually need to use a higher dose of X-rays than they would on someone of average weight to get a clear picture. [Read more]

Focus on Sleep for Long Term Weight Management

After getting a gastric band in St. Petersburg it is important to begin building healthy lifestyle habits that will contribute to long term weight management. These types of habits include things like eating a healthy diet, exercising more and managing your stress levels. There is another lifestyle habit that can help you to maintain your weight long-term that many people are not aware of—sleep. [Read more]

Expand Your Fruit Palate with 8 Fresh Options

It is hard to maintain a healthy fruit intake this day and age—we forget to buy it at the grocery store because we’re in a rush, its hard to keep fresh for snacks at school or the office without a fridge, or it goes bad if we don’t eat it soon enough. Some experts are blaming this shortfall on something they call “fruit fatigue.” [Read more]

Bariatric surgeon, Wilfred Aguila MD., performs LAP-BAND weight loss surgery in Tampa, Lakeland, St. Petersburg and Florida West Coast.