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

WLS Fitness A Beginning Runners Thoughts

    Guest Blog by: “How Do YOU Celebrate Success Contest Winner” Dawn Brell On the eve of the start of my 20 week training I am wanting to let everyone know how things are going. So far the walking
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Obesity Action Coalition Second Annual Convention #YWM2013

So I am back in Oregon after attending the Obesity Action Coalition’s second annual Your Weight Matters Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. Things have settled down a little. I had a few days with friends to unwind and now it is time to
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Why I Choose The Tinkerbell Half Marathon

Today has started with so many projects half-open on my desk being worked on. But as a bariatric fitness enthusiast I have to stop and take a moment to share an exciting revelation with you as it pertains to my
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All of Me Movie Screening – A Post RNY Patient Perspective

I used to think I put “All of me” out there. I used to believe that my life was an open book and that everyone was allowed to read each and ever chapter through my blog and this website. The
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Desperately Seeking Slender

Bariatric Fitness Contest Winner Prepares for Half Marathon

Today’s Blog is a Guest Blog from our  first big Bariatric Fitness contest  winner  Dawn Brell. Dawn is checking in with us to let us know how she has been doing since she won the “How do YOU Celebrate Success” contest earlier this month
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Desperately Seeking Slender

Weight Bias at NKOTB Concert – A Different View Post WLS

I’ve taken a little bit to write about this experience because I needed to sit on it and decide if I felt that there was any weight bias present before I broached it. My chosen sister and I have been
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Desperately Seeking Slender

Sex – Excess Skin and Body Contouring After WLS Weight Loss

I’m a Gastric Bypass patient that has lost 260 lb. I’m a WLS Exercise and Bariatric Fitness Enthusiast and I am now a four time Reconstructive Plastic Surgery patient. I’ve written several articles that approach the concept of Body Contouring
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Desperately Seeking Slender

Poo Pee Your Genitals and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Being a WLS Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Patient myself, there are a few things that I have learned in the last 17 months that I REALLY wish people had told me and taught me about before hand. Let me just say,
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Desperately Seeking Slender

Emotions Post Reconstructive Plastic Surgery After WLS

I’m behind on blogs and there are so many I need to write. Since this is the most prevalent in my mind, it will get written first. As usual, I will be sharing the full experience of this fourth bout
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Winner of Bariatric Fitness Contest Shares her Excitement

So while this WLS Exercise enthusiast is laid up recovering from my most recent round of reconstructive plastic surgery I have to say that I am living a vicariously through Dawn Brell, the winner of the Desperately Seeking Slender “How
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