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Category: living your best life

  • Bariatric Storm Ready Strategies: Mindfulness, Nutrition, and Movement

    ⚠️Troubles and hard times come. That isn’t a Bariatric thing, that is a “we are alive” thing and I will be the first to admit that I have not always known how to be safe when the storms of life would rage around me. If I was to tell you the sheer number of things…

  • Keeping my weight stable for the long term

    Keeping my weight off for 6 years has been work. There is not one thing about it that has been easy. My biggest tip besides learning about nutrition has been to move every single day! Back in the day I couldn’t walk to the end of the street let alone walk a cheeky 7 ks…

  • Truth About Weight Loss Surgery: Nourishing Our Bodies for Optimal Health

    After 5 and a half years with gastric bypass and previous lapband experience, I learned about macros and their application to my life. Growing up with food morality, I believed weight loss surgery would solve everything. However, I realized it’s just one tool in managing health. Learning moderation empowers us, and individual health journeys take…

  • No Regrets

    No Regrets

    Gastric bypass remains the best decision for my health that I have ever made. It is nearly 5 years since my surgery and I’m so glad I did this. I would love to answer any questions about by post WLS life that you might have xx

  • Invitation

    I have been invited to things in my life, I have been uninvited and I have been not invited – I think most of us can relate to at least two of those things and if you are like me, like to speak your mind, have no hesitation about calling things as you see it,…

  • Lockdown Talks

    We have some very interesting conversations in lockdown and one of the kids recently asked me what happened in my heart to cause me to change. (he was referring to my weight loss, new career, business etc) And I had to think about it for a while but you know what – I think it…

  • When days are long!

    Sucking the marrow out of life has never been more enjoyable, or more fun than it has been over these past few days. I am exhausted but time has been well spent. Any investment into family is time that has been invested in the very best way. We have eaten out, laughed, played, been to…

  • Truth

  • The Cost

    Let’s talk for a minute about the Cost of Bariatric Surgery. Many of us pay quite a sum just to have our surgery in the first place. But the costs that are ongoing are something that we don’t really talk about a lot. That’s not to say that WLS isn’t one of the best descisions…

  • A Pig

    Sitting on the main oval of her conservative Christian high school, she could feel the prickle of the browning turf under her thighs, It’s spikey texture poked uncomfortably into her arse, as the sun tried it’s best to beat down on her from above. Streaks of blistering light were fighting a continual battle with the…