Check Out This Delicious St. Paddy's Day Shake Recipe From Bari Life!

A small size Shamrock Shake from McDonald's has 400 calories and 60 grams of sugar. If you’ve ever been tempted to grab one of these festive green shakes, look no further! This version is so thick and creamy that you can eat it with a spoon! The best part is, it’s packed with protein and is extremely low in sugar and calories. It tastes downright AMAZING! Get your St. Paddy's Day "fix" with this lean, green protein shake!

 St. Paddy's Day Shake Recipe
Ingredients:

• 1 packet Bari Life Vanilla pudding/shake mix (prepared)
• 1/4 cup vanilla or plain protein powder (1 scoop-100 calories)
• 1/8 tsp  mint extract (or to taste)
• 2-3 packets of Stevia or sweetener of choice (or to taste)
• 5-10 ice cubes (more or less depending on how thick you like it)
• 4 oz. water (again, alter according to desired thickness of shake)
• 2-3 drops green food coloring OR a handful of spinach to make it green!
• 1-2 tbsp Sugar Free Instant Pistachio Pudding Mix (Jell-O brand)
• Pinch Guar or xanthan gum

Directions:
1. ONE SIMPLE STEP!  Put all the base ingredients in the blender, and blend away until desired consistency! Swirl in one drop of green food coloring just before serving  *Top with fat free Reddi Wip if desired! *

Nutritional Information:
1 Serving


To your health!
The Bari Life Team
Improving the health and wellness of bariatric patients around the world by providing the most complete bariatric vitamin formulas that are highly effective and clinically proven.
Order Online Here www.barilife.com

Bari Life Bariatric Vitamins and Supplements and Valentine's Day, Oh My!

Bari Life Bariatric Vitamins and Supplements knows Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. And, while it is important to continue taking your bariatric vitamins and supplements, it also is possible to enjoy a healthy Valentine’s Day with that special someone.

Tips to a Healthy Valentine's Day

When considering what to do for Valentine's Day, here are some tips to making healthy choices:

Dine In: Consider making a romantic dinner for two. Not only is it a great way to save on calories, you can avoid the crowded restaurants. Find one of your favorite reduced-calorie recipes that you can make. Add some ambience with a linen table cloth, tapered candles and music, and finish with a romantic movie.

Dine Out: The key to eating out is meal modification. Don’t be afraid to ask for substitutions and make sure to ask for a to-go box when you place your order. That way, you’ll be able to divide your dinner to ensure proper portion control. The American Heart Association offers great tips for eating healthy when eating out.

Split an entrée: Save money and maintain portion control by splitting an entrée with your significant other!

Start with a salad: A good way to help you eat healthy and feel full is to start with a salad.

Make it an adventure: Do something different this Valentine’s Day. Send a health-e-card to your significant other. Plan a day that involves a physical activity, such as hiking or even a trip to the zoo.

Think outside the chocolate box: Instead of chocolates, consider giving your loved one a fruit basket, a healthy cookbook or food journal, or a bouquet of flowers.

The key to successful weight loss is about making the right choices. Taking your vitamins and supplements, eating healthy and enjoying special occasions with those you love can make every day a special day!

To your health!
The Bari Life Team
Bari Life is high quality bariatric vitamins that are clinically proven supplements to help in post bariatric surgery. Order Online Here http://www.barilife.com

After Bariatric Surgery Meal Planning

Bari Life Bariatric Vitamins and Supplements knows that it is important to maintain a healthy eating regimen after surgery. We understand post bariatric surgery it is hard to know exactly what to eat and at the same time get the proper bariatric vitamins and supplements for optimal health.

We hope this blog helps to guide you and make it easy to eat healthy and delicious! Below you will see many options and choices, any of them are the right choice!

Please as well feel free to Shop Bari Life www.barilife.com for any of your delicious meal options that fit within your healthy requirements!

A great Bari Life 1200 Calorie Meal Plan includes:

• 3 Bari Life Supplement Shakes
• 1 Bari Life Nutrition Bar
• 2 Meals Daily

Breakfast:
1 Pudding or Shake Supplement
TRY Banana Pudding Shake! http://www.barilife.com/banana-pudding-shake.html

1 Fruit:

• Apple (4 oz)
• Applesauce (1/2 cup)
• Apricots (5 oz)
• ½ Banana
• Blackberries (3/4 cup)
• Blueberries (3/4 cup)
• Cherries (3 oz)
• Grapefruit (1/2)
• Grapes (3 oz)
• Orange (6 oz)
• Peach (4 oz)
• Pear (4 oz)
• Pineapple (1/2 cup)
• Plum (2)
• Prunes (3)
• Raspberries (1 cup)
• Melon (1 cup)
• Strawberries (1 cup)

Morning Snack:
1 Pudding or Shake SupplementLunch:

1 Frozen Dinner less than 400 calories:

• Weight Watchers / Smart Ones
• Lean Cuisine
• Healthy Choice
• Kashi

Afternoon Snack:
Nutrition BarDinner:
TRY Peanut Butter and Jelly Crispy Bars! http://www.barilife.com/crispy-peanut-butter-and-jelly-protein-bar.html

• 1 Starch
• 5 oz. Lean Meat
• 2 Vegetables
• 1 Optional

Evening Snack:
1 Pudding or Shake Supplement
TRY Strawberry Banana Smoothie! Delicious whipped up! http://www.barilife.com/strawberry-banana-smoothie-box-of-7.html
Instructions:

1. Drink 64 oz fluid per day.
2. Take Bari Life Vitamin tablets/powder 3/day in order to be assured of adequate vitamins and minerals on this low calorie diet.
3. Supplements needed:
   Shakes3/dayBars1/day

Food Selection List
Evening Meal Group ServingsStarch Group:
80 Calories Choose 1

• Dry Cereal (1/2 cup)
• Diet Bread (2 slices)
• Regular Bread (1 slice)
• ¼ bagel (1 oz.)
• ½ English Muffin
• 1 Low-Fat Waffle
• ½ Pita Bread
• Roll (1 oz)
• 4 Melba Toast
• Pretzels (1 oz)
• Low-fat Popcorn
• Cooked Pasta (1/3 cup)
• Cooked Rice (1/3 cup)
• Corn (1/2 cup)
• Peas (1/2 cup)
• Mashed Potatoes (1/2 cup)
• Baked Potato (4 oz)
• Sweet Potato (4 oz)
• 6 Saltine Crackers
• Lima Beans (2/3 cup)
• Dried beans (1/2 cup)
• Winter Squash (1 cup)

Vegetable Group:
25 CaloriesChoose
2 cups raw or 1 cup cooked

• Asparagus
• Green Beans
• Beets
• Broccoli
• Brussels Sprouts
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Cucumber
• Eggplant
• Greens
• Lettuce
• Mushrooms
• Okra
• Onions
• Peppers
• Radish
• Scallions
• Spinach
• Sprouts
• Summer Squash
• Tomato
• Turnips
• Zucchini

Lean Meat Group:
35-55 CaloriesChoose 5 oz.

• Turkey Breast
• Chicken Breast
• Nonfat Cheese
• Cottage Cheese
• Egg Substitute
• Veal
• Center Cut Pork
• Low-fat Lunch Meat
• Medium Egg

Lean Beef: round, sirloin, tenderloin, roast, ground round
Seafood: cod, flounder, trout, halibut, tuna in water, salmon, oysters
Optional:
45 CaloriesChoose 1

• Margarine (1 tsp)
• Mayonnaise (1 tsp)
• Reduced-fat Mayo (1 Tbsp)
• BBQ Sauce (2 Tbsp)

• Low-fat Dressing (2 Tbsp)
• Peanut Butter (2 Tbsp)
• Oil — Canola, Olive (1 tsp)

Butter (1 tsp)
Dressing or Seasoning of Choice (2 Tbsp)
Sample Meals:

• 5 oz. Lemon Pepper Chicken Breast
• 1 cup Cooked Broccoli
• ½ cup Mashed Potatoes
• 1 tsp Butter or Margarine
• 5 oz. Lean Ground Beef
• 2 slices Diet Bread
• Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, etc. as toppings
• ½ cup cooked Green Beans
• 1 tbsp Reduced-Fat Mayonnaise and Mustard

To your health!
The Bari Life Team
Bari Life is high quality bariatric vitamins that are clinically proven supplements to help in post bariatric surgery.
Order Online Here www.barilife.com

Eating Healthy During The Holidays

Eating Healthy During The Holidays

Bari Life Bariatric Vitamins is passionate about assisting you on your pre and post bariatric surgery journey. We work hard to ensure our vitamins, supplements, and products are of the absolute highest quality and value. It is because of you that we continue to make sure our bariatric vitamins and products are the best on the market and that we meet and exceeds all clinical standards, while at the same time being simple and affordable supplementation. YOU are the reason our products are so great, thank you for pushing us to exceed not only ASBMS standards but our own high level of standards daily!

It is also important to us to provide useful information for your life, health, and enjoyment! With the holidays approaching, we would like to share with you a bit of our "healthy holiday eating" tips. It is just a few little things that we hope will make a difference to make your holidays healthier and happier.

Exercise. Exercising can help burn off excess calories and fat consumed over the holiday gatherings. Please be sure to check with your Doctor to find the best routine to fit your fitness level.

DON'T FORGET to take your bariatric vitamins TRY our Bari Life Multivitamin Powder- Cherry Berry http://goo.gl/HQbzvb

Think about your cooking methods. Grilling is always better than frying and if you are roasting try some of the low-calorie spray oils. Steaming vegetables is a great way to keep as much of the nutrients in as well!

HAVE YOU TRIED? Our BBQ Protein Chips, They are wonderful option for a healthy snack that will satisfy your salty crunchy craving without wrecking your diet! http://goo.gl/HZKG8E

Don't starve yourself. Eat often. Low-fat healthy snacks through out the day. This will be a great way to fend off the big holiday meal "binge", as you won't be so hungry and feel ravenous by the time the holiday gathering starts.

Watch out for sugary foods! Over-indulging in sweet/rich food can make you feel sick and bloated. Instead stock up on raw vegetables, wash ahead of time and keep in snack bags to make it easier to choose the healthy options.

But for those of you with an incurable sweat tooth that must indulge...TRY a healthy option Bari Life Caramel Brownie Delight Bars http://goo.gl/NEvZ5E

When your full stop eating. Don't feel obligated to finish your plate. Listen to yourself and when your body signals that you've had enough, stop eating.

We hope this blog will be helpful to help make your festivities even healthier!

To your health! 

The Bari Life Team
Bari Life is high quality bariatric vitamins that are clinically proven supplements to help in post bariatric surgery.
Order Online Here www.barilife.com

Creating Healthy Eating Habits After Weight Loss Surgery

Being overweight and even obese is a national epidemic. This condition is harmful on the body and potentially very dangerous if left untreated. So, a lot of people are opting for weight loss surgery to help improve their health. Bariatric surgery is an excellent tool to help you limit the amount of food you eat and to facilitate weight reduction.

Despite what some people may think, bariatric surgery is not an “easy way out or a quick fix”.  Even though it can be difficult at times, most patients say in the end, it was the best decision they have ever made.

Get ready for some significant changes to both what you eat and how you eat.  Your new stomach will hold a small fraction of what it did before surgery, so your portion sizes will be smaller.

It’s best to start eating a diet before surgery that will be similar to what you’re allowed to eat after surgery. This will help you even lose some weight before surgery and reduce the risk of complications that can arise during surgery. The post-surgery diet will also give you time to find out what kinds of post-op foods you like to eat.

You may be thinking that there are not going to be a lot of food choices that you are allowed to eat after surgery, but there are and there are many different flavors of products to choose from. Bari Life carries a wide variety of all sorts of protein flavored drinks, breakfast foods, pasta dishes, pudding shakes, soups and much more. Finding out what you like before surgery makes the time after surgery easier on you mentally because you’ll know what to expect.

The creator and founder, Dr. Stephen Boyce, has been helping people lose weight with medically supervised diets and weight loss surgery for over 20 years. Over that span he has learned that dieting does not have to be complicated or expensive to be effective. Whether your goal is to lose 10 pounds or 200 pounds Bari Life provides simple, effective and inexpensive tools to help you. If you visit our Bari Life website you’ll find that Dr. Boyce has provided you with easy to implement 800 or 1200 calorie diet plans that he has used effectively in his weight loss surgery practice.

To your health!
The Bari Life Team
Bari Life provides high quality bariatric vitamins that are clinically proven to help post bariatric surgery patients.
Order Online Here www.barilife.com