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I am happy to report that my tantrums have stopped!  Now that I have moved onto “real food” I am not feeling deprived.  The soft diet was tougher than I thought it would be.  I am just over 6 weeks out from surgery and I am down 45 lbs.with 8 of that being lost pre-op.…

It’s been 12 weeks since my vertical sleeve gastrectomy.  The weight came off pretty quick in the beginning and has slowed down significantly.  However, I consider myself losing at a healthy rate now.  I have hit few stalls recently which I hear is normal.  One was a week and a half, and the other was…

Today is 15 weeks since I had VSG.  Tomorrow is one of my follow up appointments.  I have pretty well settled into my new ways and it feels good.  Here’s the details: WEIGHT:  I am down 63 lbs.  My weight is 188.8 down from 252.  I am finally a starting to “feel” the weight loss.…

It’s been 5 months since my bariatric surgery.  This experience has changed my life!!!  It is hands down the best decision for me, and my only regret is that I didn’t look into it sooner.  I never thought I was big enough to be a candidate.  That is called denial at its best….. Here’s some…

It seems crazy that it’s been 8 months since I had surgery.  My “new eating” has become like second nature to me.  It still seems crazy that the whole thing is done and over.n it all happened so fast.  It hasn’t even been a year that the mere idea of surgery was even brought up…

Thank you so much love! That’s what I’ve always strived for in running this blog over the past 5 (maybe more now?) years. I want everyone who is embarking on a weight loss/health/fitness journey to focus on being HEALTHY, first and foremost. That is and always will be most important to me.  * This article…

The purpose of crash dieting is to lose weight and fast. By definition a crash diet is a diet that is under 1, 200 calories eaten daily. There are many effects of crash dieting including short-term weight loss, short-term dehydration, short-term nutritional deprivation (which can lead to long-term problems), risk of fainting or heart attack…

It should be no mystery, that the more weight an individual carries, the more likelihood they are to suffer from orthopedic injuries, and conditions of wear and tear. This can be more time on the Doctors table, and debilitating joint degeneration issues as these individuals age. If you enter any hospital physical therapy department you…

I might have mentioned that I was taking a Line Dancing Class which ended last week. The teacher was a bit of a turd. She wore a back brace and was a gazillion years old. But I went and learned that I’m not really a line dancer. One of my previous managers is a friend…