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Category: Gastric bypass

  • Band aids

    Have you ever put a band aid on a wound that was too big for it to successfully cover? I have, blood and ooze spilling out the side and me thinking what the actual heck have I done here! Surely it’s gonna fit, it’s not that big! So you rip the band aid off (that…

  • Let’s get Authentic 🙃

    Shock and horror! My most “liked” pictures on Facebook, Instagram and the groups I am part of are without a doubt the “made up” ones. The ones where my skin can’t breathe because it is slathered in everything imaginable to make it look less than it’s 42 nearly 43 years of age. The ones where…

  • Curly Girl

    Sooooooooooo I have spent the last 15-20 years of my life burning my hair straight on a daily basis. I have always had fizzy hair and every morning for my whole adult life I have blow dried it straight or at the very least – worn it up so that I didn’t have to deal…

  • Hearts and more Hearts

    Since my WLS I have a bit of a struggle getting enough protein into my diet. I have been HORRIFIED beyond belief to learn that generally there is quite a bit of misinformation and misunderstanding when it comes to food and exactly what we are putting into our bodies. I suppose I have become passionate…

  • Looking Myself in the Eye

    Yesterday was a great day – Not for all of those loved up Valentines Day reasons. I will let you in on a secret – I haven’t actually celebrated it………as in really felt the Valentines day love and had a Valentines day party/bash in about 13 years! Sure there has been the token card here…

  • VALENTINES DAY EDITION When it’s not perfect

    Steve and I fell for each other in high school. I adored him from afar for a long time and never expected him to notice me. Eventually he did and I felt like I had won the lottery. We probably both felt a little that way. The smile that man possesses should be banned! And…

  • Tired

    I have done a lot of things for a long time with other people in mind. I kept thinking – life will be better when…… When I have finished my diplomas, when I lose weight, when I have skin removal surgery, when I can get the job that I want, when, when, when ……. and…

  • Your future’s calling!

    Can you hear it? Is your future calling you? I bet it is!!! I have been intentionally blocking mine out for few months now. I am at that point post op in my weight loss journey where I have sort of sat back in my proverbial deck chair, arching a perfectly manicured eyebrow at the…

  • Lets throw today out and start again!

    HMMMMmmmmmm where to begin? The last post that I wrote was titled – the beginning and I have found in life that when we determine that we are going forward, moving past something, starting something new or just generally extricating our finger and doing something that is wholly worthwhile and, dare I say, brave or…

  • The beginning

    I was recently asked if I would consider gathering together my thoughts concerning the process I have walked through over these past few years and collate them into a book. The bibliophile in me wanted to simultaneously break into the most joyous and undignified form of “the happy dance” I have ever performed and, contrastingly…