Community Resources
Sleeve Gastrectomy Survival Guide ebook
Your ultimate guide to surviving the initial stages of surgery. Guidelines, tips and tricks galore.
Your Guide to Shopping with a Sleeve
Making healthy and sleeve-friendly choices in the supermarket easy!
Pre-op Shopping List
Everything you need to get you through the Optifast phase
Expected Weight Loss Calculator
Work out how much weight you can expect to lose in an instant.
Top 10 Tips for Living with a Sleeve
My best 10 tips to help you make the most of your sleeve.
20 Breakfast Ideas
20 quick, easy, delicious and healthy sleeve-sized breakfast options. Shopping list included.
20 Lunch Ideas
20 quick, easy, delicious and healthy sleeve-sized lunch options – 10 to make and 10 to buy. Shopping list included.
20 Snack Ideas
20 quick, easy, delicious and healthy sleeve-sized snack options. Shopping list included.
Supplement Guide
An easy visual guide to help you figure out what supplements you need to take and when.
Am I actually hungry?
This flow chart helps raise awareness about why and when we want to eat. It should help you to reduce non-hungry eating and make the most of your weight loss.
Food and Mood Diary
Use this food and mood diary to track why and when you eat as well as keep track of other healthy habits. Once tracking you can do some detective work and figure out how to stop any self-sabotage.
Daily Habits for Long Term Weight Loss Checklist
Successful sleevers have common habits. Use this checklist to assess your habits. What are you doing well? What do you need to work on?
Label Reading Wallet Card
Pop this card in your wallet and use it to help you chose products in the supermarket.
40 Things to do when you want to eat but aren’t hungry
Try one of these quick and easy things to do to delay, distract or displace those feelings of hunger.
The best savoury snacks
Whilst these shouldn’t always be your go to snacks, if you’re after a savoury option, these are the best packaged products out there.
Goal Tracker
Choose one goal to focus on each day. When you do it, tick it off! When you’ve done it every day for a week, give yourself a weekly reward and when you’ve done it every day for a month, a monthly reward!
Module 1 worksheet from the Back on Track course
Assess where you are now with your habits and prioritise which to work on first with the help of this simple worksheet.
Recommended blood tests for sleeve gastrectomy
Make sure you’re testing what needs to be tested to prevent any long-term issues like nutrient deficiency.
Nutrition Label Cheat Sheet
To make things simpler for you in the supermarket I’ve created a nutrition label cheat sheet you can download and put it in your wallet or save as a screenshot on your phone.
Product Discounts
Cost Price Supplements
Use the code: LWAS15 for 15% off most products on the Cost Price Supplements website including Feel Good Protein and Protein Perfection. There are lots of goodies on here for weight loss surgery including books, plates, supplements and protein powders.
Bodiez Protein Water
Use the code: SHORE for 10% off and free delivery any Bodiez Protein Water products. My favourite is the clear protein powder which you can add to any food or drinks to increase the protein content.
Formulite Meal Replacements
Formulite is an excellent alternative to Optifast or Optislim VLCD. It is made from all natural ingredients and tastes MUCH better. It’s Aussie made, too.
Use the code: SHORE for 20% off your first order.