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Category: Gastric bypass

  • Living at Goal Weight

    Well that was a big title! What do you mean that no one is joining in my overflowing excitement that I am no longer plumpy me!?! All I can think when I say the word ‘Plumpy’ is of Moto Moto from a kids movie that I absolutely adore. I’ll try find a clip so you…

  • SwimWear 🤣

    Does anyone else dream about wearing a bikini like this but wonder where to put the rest of their vagina 🤣😂 over the weekend someone I know cough, cough may have tried on some swimwear and found that there was more out than in 🤣 my Quarter Pounder ain’t fitting in there!! I don’t think…

  • When You See How It Was.

    WARNING GRAPHIC POST SURGICAL PIC Today I met with my plastic surgeons nurse. I love going in and having chats with Natalie. She is just genuinely a good human being. She has been so honest with me from the start. She did not blow smoke up my arse when I said that I thought I…

  • Cats, Pigeons and Brutal Honesty

    I was not always one to just say it like it is. I would think it, I might whisper it quietly to my partner and to my close family …. but I rarely said it and if I did, it would come out in an explosion of zingers that were both cutting and, at times,…

  • The things I do

    I am super humbled to be part of an incredible team of inspiring individuals who moderate the largest Weight Loss Surgery Facebook page in Australia. I am constantly inspired, motivated and totally moved by the stories of the fabulous people that I have met on the page. One thing that becomes overwhelmingly obvious as you…

  • Day 17 Post Op

    It has taken me so much longer to sit down and write this than I thought it would. The trauma of what happened after my plastic surgery is not something that I am going to forget in a hurry and I am still filled with fear and dread when I think about it. Yesterday was…

  • Hospital

    My hospital admission quickly became something that I NEVER expected it to be. I went in on Wednesday for a bi-lateral Breast Reduction and an Tummy Tuck after my big weight loss. I went into surgery fully aware of the risks because of my former size!! I was first surgery of the day and was…

  • Sleepless in Highton

    I am sleepless once again!!! All I want to do is fall blissfully into unconsciousness but right now I am up to my eyeballs in thoughts about how the next few weeks will be panning out 😳 my thoughts are as follows . 1. I hate this bloody binder! The stupid surgical torture device is…

  • I was wrong – there will be no improvement today!!

    Today was get the blood test results from the doctor day – Those results weren’t good. My blood protein level is down. I am not eating enough *shock horror* my vitamin D level is terrible and my B12 isn’t much better. So this explains most of the way that I have been feeling. So where…

  • Thursday why you no nice to me!

    Today started out like most other days. A coffee in bed to wake me up and then the school things for the kids – get ready to get out the door etc etc. All the usual busy morning things for our family. I had a doctors appointment to go to this afternoon and a few…