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  • All The Tears

    Today is one of those teary kind of days. I have woken up feeling anxious. Thankfully these days are few and far between these days but it doesn’t make things any easier when anxious days take place. I know that I am worried about next week! Surgery is a big deal and I just want…

  • Hope – we all need hope

    I am packing my bag for hospital – Okay it’s still three weeks tomorrow until my surgery BUT I need to keep hope in front of me to help me focus on moving forward! Today I am exhausted. I am trying really hard not to let myself feel overwhelmed because quite honestly things are overwhelmingly…

  • It is Sunday Afternoon

    Sunday afternoons should be for sleeping and dreaming and planning and making amazing memories BUT more often than not, I find myself doing everything that I have missed for the whole week on a Sunday afternoon. This afternoon I watched my 15 year old play his last game of AFL for the season. They were…

  • My First Blog Post

    Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

  • Barrier Breaker

    I had a great big barrier in my mind about 95 kilos. When I was 150 ish kilos – just 15 weeks ago – I couldn’t comprehend how it would feel to be 95 kilos again. It felt far too far away. Do you know what it is like to look at the same mountain…

  • WLS Changes Everything!

    t changes everything. Weight loss surgery has changed everything.  People have said that “we are what we eat” – today that would make me an Vietnamese Rice Paper Roll – but in truth, those words are startlingly accurate.  I was eating my feelings. Eating my stress and eating my anxiety. I did not eat chocolate,…

  • The errant Gallbladder!

    5 weeks today since gastric bypass. What a journey it has been. I should be excitedly getting ready to go back to work next week but instead I am now in the early days of recovering from yet another surgery. So what happened? Two weeks post bypass I started experiencing pain in my right side…

  • Progress and other things!

    Dinner tonight was 4 teaspoons of yoghurt 😕 I might try to have another 1/3 of a cup of protein shake in a little while – struggling to get the food down today and I think it is that the texture is a little thicker as set out in my info from the dietitian. I…

  • Day 10 Post Op

    Day 10 post op – today was very cold here and thankfully it was a beautiful, slow day for us. I am still having problems with one of my surgical wounds – it doesn’t want to stay shut and keeps bleeding so I didn’t go for a walk yesterday. Today the wound hasn’t actively bled…

  • Day 9 Post Op

    Day 9 post op – Mum left early this morning 😥 I know that I will be fine but it all feels a bit overwhelming right at this moment. The last two nights have been rough. I have a wound that does not wish to play nicely and keeps bleeding. Obviously I am moving too…