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🤖 Board-Certified Robotic Bariatric Surgeon

11/02/2026

Most people assume a bariatric surgeon’s answer is always surgery. Friday’s annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Chapter of ASMBS was a good reminder of why it isn’t.

As chapter Vice President, I had the privilege of helping put this day together, and we were grateful to have Dr. Adrian Dan as our keynote speaker. His message was one I share with you in clinic all the time: obesity care works best when it is comprehensive. Nutrition, movement, medication, endoscopic procedures, and surgery each have a role, and for many people the best results come from combining them with long-term support.

If you’re exploring your options, ask your care team which of these could work together for you, not just which one to choose. I put together a guide that shows what comprehensive obesity care should look like, with questions to bring to your next appointment. Comment CENTER and I’ll send it to you.

Thank you to our speakers and to everyone who joined us on Friday.

Obesity is a disease, not a character flaw.

10/21/2026

This is the one sentence I say in my clinic when someone breaks down during their consultation.

In my experience, almost 8 out of 10 people I meet end up in tears. It is not because of bad news, but because for the first time someone is telling them this was never a personal failure. Those are tears of feeling validated and finally free.

Obesity is a disease, not a character flaw. Your genetics, your hormones, and the food environment you grew up in were never your choice, so carrying this disease is not something to blame yourself for. What you choose to do about it from today is where your power lives, and you do not have to figure that part out alone.

For many people, the first step is learning which treatment options actually fit their body and their life. Comment OBESITY and I'll send you my guide to get you started.

10/18/2026

Today is World Menopause Day 💜

If the weight is creeping back after bariatric surgery, hear this: it is not your fault.

When estrogen declines, fat shifts toward the belly, insulin resistance rises, and muscle mass drops. You didn’t ruin your tool. Your hormones changed the environment it works in.

It is not your fault, but it is your fight. Here are 5 critical shifts:

1️⃣ Know that hormone therapy is an option. For most healthy women, it’s safe, and the complications that scared a generation away from it turned out to be rare. You have options, so please ask for them and advocate for yourself.

2️⃣ Lift heavy, to exhaustion. After surgery, you lost muscle along with fat, and menopause speeds that loss up. Light weights won’t send the signal. Your last few reps should feel nearly impossible. This also protects your bones, which matters even more after bariatric surgery because your calcium and vitamin D absorption has changed.

3️⃣ Fight the slowdown with NEAT. Menopause quietly lowers how much you move in a day without you noticing. NEAT is all the movement outside of exercise, like walking, taking stairs, standing, and cleaning, and it burns more over a day than your workout does.

4️⃣ Treat your sleep. Hormonal shifts after menopause disrupt sleep through night sweats and lighter, broken sleep, and poor sleep drives hunger and insulin resistance. Hormone therapy can help, and if you’re snoring again or waking up tired, get checked for sleep apnea.
5️⃣ Redefine your tool. Menopause is a second wave of hormonal change. Work with your biology through consistent habits, regular labs, and medical therapy when indicated.

You have not failed. Your body is asking for a different strategy.

💾 Save this, and send it to a woman who needs to hear it.

10/18/2026

If you only know me from the OR or the podium, you know one layer.

Yes, I’m a bariatric surgeon. I’m also the woman who will fight for you when the world tells you your weight is a willpower problem. It isn’t.

I’m also the woman at home trying to show up for my family after a 12-hour day.

The woman who found Sufism with her soul sister and learned that strength can be quiet.

The woman who still loves to explore, get lost, and be a pilgrim in the world.

None of these women are footnotes to each other. They are all me.

I used to think I had to hide the other layers to be taken seriously in medicine. Now I know they are the reason I am good at what I do.

Still dreaming. Still becoming. ✨

Your turn — who are you beyond your title? 👇

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