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

Emotions Surfacing With Too Much Time to Think

Ok let’s get raw, after all, that is sort of what you are used to with me right? I’m one of those blunt, tell it like it is, call it like I see it girls that tend to rub people
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My Third Christmas Post Weight Loss Surgery

I feel like I have so many things to do and catch up on, especially in the online world, that I am starting to panic that I’m “playing” too much. It’s nearly 10pm on December 26th, the day after Christmas
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Woman Emotionally Assaulted by PCP over having Gastric Bypass

I want to bring some attention to this story…. I am not usually the type to call someone out in public, it is not usually my style. But I have a friend in the WLS community whom I will not
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Sometimes Reality Sucks. That’s Reality.

This is going to be deep. I’m a blogger, it’s what I do. If you don’t want to share my emotional journey with me stop reading right now, this isn’t going to be a light-hearted or happy blog post. I’m
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Featured in the Dec Walk from Obesity E-Newsletter

So for those that don’t realize it, life was a little busy for me for a bit. I left Oregon for Dallas, TX on October 24th, in order to attend the 2012 Inaugural Your Weight Matters Convention. I left Dallas
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Positive Body Image Mission 2013 Commencing

I don’t normally do this sort of thing, but I saw a link on Twitter today that came from SparkPeople.com that asked “How Healthy is your body Image?” I decided to take the quick quiz and see what my results were. This is what
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Endorse WLSers at the WEGO Health Activist Awards

I got an email last week from the WEGO Health Activist Awards informing me that I had been nominated for one of the Awards. What an honor. I doubt I will win, I never win anything, but it is still
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Christmas Shopping for the Post Weight Loss Fitness Junkie

So I need a break from all the seriousness that has been going on in life recently and need to take some time to just be fun and light-hearted. with that in mind I decided to do a life after
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Insurance Covered my Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Alright, I know this is the topic that everyone has been waiting for me to discuss. How I got my insurance to cover my plastic surgeries. Let me first say that I have largely waited to talk about this very
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The Pain of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

I know that a lot of people have questions about the reconstructive Plastic Surgery aspect of the weight loss journey. With that in mind, as I write about my experience with Reconstructive Plastic Surgery over the next few blogs, I
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