Category: weight loss
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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…
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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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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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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…
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When the Schmecken Beckons…
GUILTY PLEASURES Day 8 of the liquid pre-op diet started out with thoughts of watching television cooking shows. What? Talk about putting temptation in your own way. But I enjoy watching the Christmas cooking competitions every year, and I guess I’m missing that. And, I won’t lie, I feel a…
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Vanity, or Sanity?
QUESTIONING BARIATRIC SURGERY I used to walk into my doctor’s office with my hand raised defensively. “Let’s just start with the assumption that I need to lose weight, and move on from there.” She would laugh, and we’d begin discussing my reason for being there. I have long held the…