Choosing meals that are healthy, quick, and easy to put together is one strategy to make meal planning less daunting. In this session we will be introducing different strategies for how to incorporate healthy smoothies into your meal plan, giving tips on selecting healthy protein powders, and providing nutritious and yummy smoothie recipes to add variety to your diet.

Travel with your taste buds in our It's A Small World Meal Planning series. These meal planning sessions are specifically designed to help you incorporate tasty and healthy foods from various cuisines into your diet to make healthy eating more enjoyable and decrease the likelihood of dietary fatigue. This session will focus on South Asian Cuisine.

This session is facilitated by internist, Dr. Sylvie Galindo. Obesity is a progressive, relapsing, chronic, medical disease that requires ongoing evaluation and treatment like any other chronic disease. In this group, we will discuss other interventions for obesity management beyond long-term lifestyle changes (diet, physical activity, and mental wellness). The physician will review medical interventions (pharmacotherapy/medications and bariatric surgery) and when they might be necessary for a patient to consider and possibly undergo. Medical and surgical interventions do not take the place of lifestyle intervention, but they do provide a patient with additional support for the management of their obesity. Even if you do not wish to consider medication or surgery for weight loss, it is important that you are fully aware of the most up to date options to assist with the management of serious weight problems. This group is mandatory for patients with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 40, or BMI over 35 with at least one obesity-related health condition, and you will receive an e-mail if you have not yet been told about these interventions.