Three years ago, I was in a hospital room recovering from gastric sleeve surgery. Recovery sucked, but then recovery from any surgery is hardly a walk in the park. The surgery continues to be hands down the best thing I ever did for my health and overall quality of life. Three years out, I have …
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Two Year Surgiversary
Facebook’s On This Day reminded me that today is my 2 year Surgiversary. So much has happened in the last two years. My life hardly resembles that of two years ago, in a good way. Here’s a picture of me also from the general time period before surgery. It isn’t until photos like this show …
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The coffee monkey on my back
I love caffeine. It’s a serious and lasting love I’ve had since I was a teenager. I grew up in a religious denomination that teaches not to defile your temple (body) with drugs like caffeine. It wasn’t a “you’re going to hell” prohibition, but it was certainly discouraged. As a result, I didn’t learn to …
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Good Measures review
I spent a few months as a client of Good Measures, and wanted to share my experience. The short version is that Good Measures is a great service, especially for bariatric surgery patients who do not have easy access to a Registered Dietitian (not a Nutritionist) where they live. For those not familiar, Good Measures …
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Cheating on WLS Post-Op Diet
I used to participate on a particular WLS support board, and we had an absolute deluge of people posting about “cheating” on their post-operative diets. Some of the netizens would respond “oh, honey, that’s okay… we’re all human.” Discussions about how impossible it is to fight food addictions would ensue. As a nurse, I was …
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Review of 2017
Well, it’s that time of year again. Time to look back and see how the year went, and try to decide what’s important for the upcoming year. 2017 has been a rough one, certainly. I think the country made a mistake with the election of #45, and I find him to be a complete embarrassment. …
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Light at the end of the tunnel
And it doesn’t even look like it’s an oncoming train. I’m in the final countdown for #gradSchoolSucks — 3 weeks left. It’s hard to accept the fact that I’ll no longer be a student a month from now. Well, IF I get my paper done for my Capstone and I don’t flake on the rest …
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Walking on the beach
A few weeks ago I got to take a week long business trip to Irvine, California. I took advantage of the opportunity to go out to the beach a couple of evenings I was there, and walk in the sand. I lived about a year and a half in Hawaii when I was a child, …
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One Year Surgiversary
So today marks the one year anniversary of my life-changing surgery. I had my checkup with my surgeon yesterday and got the best surprise. You see, I have a scale that is consistent but not accurate. It has consistently throughout this process weighed me 5 lbs lighter than the doctor’s scales. I thought I could trust …
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Body Positivity and WLS
Picture from the No Body Shame website I have previously talked about my struggle with the cognitive dissonance between wanting to support/promote/embody body positivity even though I have had WLS. Cognitive Dissonance My news feed this morning sent me to Dances With Fat, specifically to a post talking about not allowing weight loss talk in …
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