The Good, Bad, Pretty and Ugly Accounts of One Woman’s Weight Loss Journey

The Good, Bad, Pretty and Ugly Accounts of One Woman’s Weight Loss Journey2019-01-04T08:21:32-05:00

A Lesson in Distracted Eating for WLS Fitness Contest Winner

Guest Blog By Dawn Brell  Dawn Brell rocking her vampiress for Halloween 2013 After a week with a few set backs Pandora asked me to write a blog about my experiences.  I have to say that anyone who has been
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Has the WLS Community become an Over Sensitive Population?

This is probably going to make me very unpopular. It is a good thing that I gave up any hope of Prom Queen back in 1994. Even knowing the potential result… I am going to say it. I believe we
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Barriers in your Wellness path Do NOT Translate to – THE END

  As a Bariatric Fitness enthusiast and Motivational Coach I find that often time’s people who talk to me about their weight loss journey usually have some sort of barrier in their way when it comes to their current wellness
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Desperately Seeking Slender

Bariatric Fitness Contest Winner Faces Training Challenges

Guest Blog By Dawn Brell  As I am writing this I have been sort of been delaying it.  Let me start by saying I have been having a relatively good time with the running. At times it has almost seemed
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Avoiding High Risk Behaviors after Weight-Loss Surgery

This was going to be a Facebook post – but really, I felt it was more appropriate to share with a larger reader base.  The topic of taking pain medication after weight loss surgery is the buzz today thanks to
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Utah Football Coach Teaches Anti-bullying and Human Decency

Every once in a while I just have to stop, put my hands together and applaud, especially when I see someone taking a stand an anti-bullying stand. I’m a huge advocate when it comes to weight bias and bullying, it
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Emotional Clarity in my Weight Loss Journey – “I Feel Weak”

I have had an epiphany. It happens. I have had that break through “ah-ha” moment when you FINALLY put your finger on a problem and go “Oh THAT’S it! THAT’S why this was bothering me.” The great thing about this
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Returning to Running – 10 weeks off 3 weeks on and happy

So Monday started Week 03 of the #20Week2Tink Training Program we are doing leading up to our partition in the 2014 Tinker Bell Half Marathon Weekend in Anaheim, CA. – Thanks to our Team Sponsors Dawn Brell, the winner of
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DISCOUNT COUPON Kiss Me Dirty Portland – Get Dirty With Me

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to make this startling announcement…. Pandora Williams is about to be a dirty girl! – It’s shocking, it’s blind blowing, it’s astonishing, and you’d never expect such a thing from me. Right?! – Ok
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Realizing it is Bigger Than You – My PreTraining Headspace

As a WLS Post-Op turned WLS Fitness Enthusiast there is nothing I love more than knowledge there are people out there that I encourage to move, that I motivate and inspire to get their fit on.  That little tidbit of
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