There are a million things I should be doing right now other than writing this blog. Maybe not millions, but a ton. Studying for my PT Certification that I feel I am nowhere near ready for, at the gym working on that perfect form I am going to need, helping my Godfather with his house project… the list goes on and on. I can always find something I should be doing now that I am [...]
There are times when I can't begin to figure out where to start… My Father's remains are in my car after my trip to Los Angels where I helped my Mother move out of the house that my parents had lived in my entire life and said good-bye to the one place, that no matter what memories it held that haunted me, I always knew I had to go back to if I needed it. [...]
Nominated for: Favorite YouTube Personality Favorite Individual/Personal Obesity or WLS-related Blog: Most Inspiring Story: can be obesity or WLS related Being Nominated for something like this is SUCH an honor. I can't even begin to tell you. When I think about the fact that so many of you really only met me and started following my blog back in October after we met at the OAC Convention it really warms my heart that so many of [...]
Once in a while you meet someone and you just click. You goals are so similar and you are so passionate about the same things that when you are together it's like you feed on each other's positive energy. I call this "Motivation Transference." Bobby Whisnand Leading the Walk from Obesity at the OAC Inaugural Convention Dallas Texas October 2012 If you are someone who reads my blog and finds themselves motivated by [...]
This isn't going to be your usual WLS post. Unfortunately today I have something else to share with you. Most days I am happy to stop and do anything I can to help someone along their journey. Most days I am happy to share my life experience with someone in order to try to make their journey a little easier than mine might have been. Usually I do so with an eagerness I can rarely [...]
Alright Ladies and Gentlemen, It's taken me awhile to decide how I wanted to approach this topic… Let me share a story with you… A Picture of Me at 15 It was my Sophomore year of High School and in general, I wasn't a very happy teenager. I had a very hard time making friends, I rarely fit in, and any boys that showed any sign of liking me wanted to keep it [...]
As usual my friends over and Post Op and a Doc have posed a question that has me thinking this morning. As I started to respond I realized it was going to be long and decided it would be a good blog post to share with my readers. This morning they posted the following quote from the movie "As Good As It Gets" (1997) on their Facebook page and asked what their fans thoughts were [...]
A multimillionaire in New Mexico wants you to get off the couch and go searching for hidden treasures. You know how yesterday in my article about Joan Rivers I told you that I thought the world would be a happier place when I was thin and that somehow I would follow rainbows find pots of gold and discover the last living unicorn. But no such luck? Well maybe Forest Fenn has other plans for me. Mr. [...]
Yesterday I wrote a blog about WLS Plastics from the Patient Perspective. There was a reference in it to a school yard bully incident that I used to help people understand the psychological stigma that such encounters can have on you even 20 years later… The hall was crowded, kids bustling around as they rushed to their lockers to get their books for their next class. She stood at her locker with her back against [...]
This is likely one of the hardest blogs I will ever write for you, even as I do it, I am nervous, I am scared and I am self-conscious, but I feel that there is something we’re not talking about out loud in the WLS community and that is, the realism of results and success of body contouring and reconstructive plastic surgery to address the sagging skin that so often occurs after we have successfully [...]
