Category: #dieting
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Oh, to Hell with it.
I’m sorry. I know I promised 12 reasons why I should have gotten bariatric surgery sooner rather than later, but I lost interest in the project half-way through. Perhaps I’ll pick it up again later. But today I wrote a piece of my mind to a young woman considering bariatric…
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12 REASONS TO GET BARIATRIC SURGERY SOONER RATHER THAN LATER – part II
Welcome back to my four-part series about what I’ve learned over the last two and a half years following bariatric surgery. Following my Roux-en-Y, I reminded myself to pay attention to my body, my emotions, and my experiences. The first three reasons why I believe now I would have been…
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12 REASONS TO GET BARIATRIC SURGERY SOONER RATHER THAN LATER
Tomorrow marks two and a half years since my Roux-en-Y. I’ve learned a few things about myself and our society. This is the first of a four-part series explaining why, for me, it would have made sense to get bariatric surgery forty years ago. Before anyone goes off on…
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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…
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Domain Domination
You know that moment? The one when you realize you should have gotten a bill, but haven’t seen it? That happened to me two months back when I forgot to check an old email account and didn’t find the reminder to renew my old domain name: gentasebastian{dot}com until one (1)…
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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…
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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…
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Fist Pump – Throat Lump
The fist pump! Yeah! I’ve done it, did it just the other week. Will probably do it again. When I started out on this journey over a year ago, I wasn’t sure it was going to end up on the surgeon’s table. I went to an info meeting, but…