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Weight Loss Surgery Cheating 101

It might be a family member, friend, co-worker, spiritual advisor, gym instructor, teacher, or even an acquaintance. She may have been your greatest cheerleader during every diet you’ve failed. He might be the one pressuring you to get thin. They may have watched your weight gain over the years and…

February 19, 2021
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Bariatric Surgery 2.5

I know! Can you believe it? It’s over three years since I started the journey and two and a half since I underwent bariatric surgery. Following a full year of preparation and education, my excellent surgeon performed two procedures, undoing a Nissen fundoplication before the Roux-en-Y. The entire surgery took…

June 8, 2018
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Feet Don’t Fail Me Now

Attitude is Ability’s strongest supporter. I’ve always taken my health for granted. I’ve been blessed with sound bones, fairly well functioning internal organs, and muscles that do what I ask them to do, not that I ask very often. But I do enjoy a good walk, which is what I…

May 9, 2017
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How I Lost Eighty Pounds in One Year

I went from 237 lbs to 157 lbs from Dec. 15, 2015, to Dec. 15, 2016 Two-hundred-thirty-seven pounds is the highest weight on record for me, and that was taken a long time ago. I’ve been heavier, I’m sure of it and I’ve been lighter, sometimes significantly so, but since…

January 4, 2017
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Bariatric Surgery Success!

Today it will have been exactly four months since my Roux en Y or gastric bypass surgery. Next week will make it a year since I started this amazing journey. I’ve lost fifty-two pounds. My blood pressure is lower, my arthritis less painful, and my triglycerides are behaving themselves. I…

April 14, 2016
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The Moment of Truth

I’ll use this for my before picture. It was taken in early 2015, after I’d begun the journey to get to this point. An interesting thing was happening to me at the time. I’d begun to say good-bye to foods, as if I’d never see them again. I binged on…

December 12, 2015
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In Vain, or Insane?

So the best part of day 2 on a liquid diet is that day 1 is over. Although I grazed through the day with 7 8oz cups of water 3 protein drinks, 2 cups of cream of broccoli soup (eww!), 1/2 cup of Malt-o-Meal (yeah, they still make it and…

December 2, 2015
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FAT SHAMING – Another Form of Bullying

I was talking about this with some women the other day. We’re all full-figured women who’ve lived our lives on the heavy side of the scale, rather than the lighter, and each of us had horror stories to tell. I shared a story of going through the cafeteria at school…

March 28, 2014