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  • Let’s Talk: My Real-Life Tips for Recovery + Long-Term Success Post-Surgery

    Let’s Talk: My Real-Life Tips for Recovery + Long-Term Success Post-Surgery

    💛 I get asked all the time in my DMs — “What helped you the most in recovery?” or “How have you kept the weight off long-term?” And honestly, it’s never just one thing. There are layers to this journey, and every one of them matters. First up — get your head in the game.No…

  • The Truth About Excess Skin After Weight Loss: A Personal Account

    One of the hotly contested topics of the bariatric world seems to be the excess skin one. I have been told that my excess skin is the stuff of nightmares and hey I get it! It is confronting when someone chooses to share pictures of their unedited self after losing 100 kilos. I have had…

  • THROWBACK THURSDAY

    The first pic was taken a few months after my WLS when I had blown a hernia in one of my incisions (it was fixed a few weeks later – right before Christmas) but I was finally getting brave enough to take pics of myself! And then 👉🏻 This morning. I think it is safe…

  • The Ways We Change! Post Weight Loss Surgery

    If I had known myself six years ago, I would have witnessed a completely different version of me. I had reached a point where hope was scarce, and I had given up on myself and my future. Frustration and bitterness consumed me, as I endured daily pain, yearning desperately for a change. I watched my…

  • 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,…

  • Body Positivity and Weight Loss Surgery – just my thoughts

    I think I always had a bit of angst with my body. Things that happened to me when I was a child caused me to believe that my body wasn’t really mine and that I had little control over it. From that broken place a really poor view of myself and my body grew. It…

  • Magical Unicorns

    HAPPY Hump Day – I am hoping, for the sake of family and friends living in Melbourne, that tomorrow night will mark the lifting of the lockdown that they have been living under for these past couple of weeks. Covid strategy in Australia is very much a suppression game until enough of the population is…

  • How it’s going – show and share

  • 6 weeks tomorrow.