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Just when I "let go & let God" accepting the idea that their 11 yr. marriage would not include biological progeny, Mitsu got pregnant.
They told us when we came for Thanksgiving - TWINS, fraternal, one each - would be arriving the end of March!!
They decided to give their Mom a break and were delivered on Sat.
I get to be with them on Thurs.
WOOOOO HOOOO!
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
It was quite an adventure!
The juicy details of this harrowing adventure are on my OH Profile-blog!
Take a look, have a giggle!
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
I spotted them in the course of my exclusive coverage of NBC-TV's "THE BIGGEST LOSER" Open casting call in ATLANTA last July 11th. I made sure to photograph & interview them & they appeared in my story,
"Losing at Winning the Losing Game" in the August issue of
ORACLE 20/20 mag.
Who are they?
Go to my OH blog & see!
If you're tired of re-gaining what you lost, read the ORACLE story or any of my blogposts...
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
I'm trying to assemble a complete, chronological time line of my Christmas portraits, starting with 2002 (7 weeks before my RNY) thru 2009.
I could not find my VERY FIRST post-op Christmas!
Until now! I found 2, in fact! They're part of my OH profile.
Oh happy day! Look for "Christmas Eve 2003."
Lovingly sent in this new year!
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
"Lauralyn's Christmas' 2002 ~ Now!"
Because I already had my surgery date, I knew Christmas 2002 would be my last in a plus-size body.
Coming up on my 7th POST-OP anniversary and I have NOT gained back any weight!
I am truly "at home" in a strong, healthy body after being a yo-yo dieter for most of my previous 50+ years prior to RNY in 2/03.
Wishing everyone a healthier, happier 2010!
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
the look on her face was so happy and brave!
It got me to remembering...
To see the result, visit my OH blog! Just click on <profile> by my face.
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
I'm 6 1/2 yrs post-op RNY & holding steady for about 5 years as a size 8 AND I'd never experienced the dreaded "dumping" syndrome.
Reading descriptions of the experience on my surgeon's message board put the fear of dumping into me big time! So I never played the cat-and-mouse game of seeing what I might be able to "get away with," in food & beverage choices.
Two nights ago, however, I was taken down by a full-blown dumping episode; AND, it wasn't from eating "forbidden" foods! It snuck up on me like an army of NINJA.
What I realized as the episode began was that the fruit salad I'd made with fresh-but-over-ripe kiwi & bananas, had made portion control hard for me to gauge; that I'd probably eaten the equivalent of 1 kiwi+ 1 banana; and the level of fructose, possibly fermented!, was more than my intestinal tract could manage.
My heart was racing, my head was fizzy, I felt dizzy, I found myself panting, gas cramps followed, I staggered upstairs to where my husband was dead asleep, yelling his name in what sounded to my ears as slurred speech. If I'd been in public, I think most folks would've thought I was falling-down-drunk.
I tried lying down. Bad Idea.
I tried standing bent over our bed. Another Bad Idea.
Something told me my only hope was to walk it off, hanging onto Jim's arm. For 30 min. I walked around our upstairs until I was able to support myself with my sturdy walking stick.
Jim went downstairs & came up with a 32 oz. bottle of filtered water with sugar-free Propel lemon powder diluted 50%. I started drinking the water through a straw & walking.
I asked Jim to go online to OBESITY HELP to see what they said to do for dumping & was told nothing was gonna get better til things got through my small intestines. So I figured the walking & water would force the issuel
It did & I fell into bed at midnight, propped up on my back - about 100 min. after it began. It wasn't over, but it was at a level where my fatigue could overpower everything else & I fell asleep.
So what have I learned?
I have to be as careful around fresh fruit salads as any salad bar or buffet banquet. Fructose is sugar. My intestinal tract did not deduct calories for fructose vs. high fructose corn syrup.
It has been an exhausting, frightening and educational experience. Sunday, I felt like a limp dishrag. Jim & I took a walk through the Chattahoochee Nature Center to enjoy our first gloriously sunny day in weeks; but I was walking slowly and still feeling mentally fuzzy. Today, I felt normal.
My hope is that by sharing it with you, I can prevent some other long-time post-op from going through the dreaded dumping syndrome!
Blessings,
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
That changed when we moved to Houston (western suburbs off the Katy Fwy) and I learned that FLASH! flooding is a literal description of what happens to your street, and that tornados are close by when the manhole covers start dancing like whirling dervishes 2 ft. above their openings! Not to mention hurricanes charging up the highway from Galveston...
Since 1981, we've lived in the northern suburbs of Atlanta (a 12 min. drive down GA 400 to the beltway) and (for the last 4 yrs.) in our dream house on a lakefront.
Fortunately, our backyard slopes downnnnnn to Lake Martin, so our home was never at risk. But it wasn't til the day after, when I put on my waterproof rainboots & slogged down to the nature walk that goes around this 55-acre lake, that I realized how far up the slope the waters had risen!
I put my photos with commentary in an album that's open to anyone to see on Facebook. It's under my name.
Picking up garbage along shore, blowing wet leaves off our steep driveway & decks is excellent exercise, BTW!
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Ithaca College!
What gave me the courage? One of my Radio-TV brothers saw me on FB & said the photos in my FB albums were exactly the way he remembered me -
40 years ago!
Truth is, I'm thinner, stronger and healthier than I was back then! (See my BEFORE & AFTER photos!)
I was the ONLY "girl" to graduate from the then-Dept. of Radio-TV (now it's a School) in 1969. Thanks to non-stop dieting, cigerettes, cottage cheese and Fresca/ Tab, oh! and prescription diet pills I managed to stay a size 12-14. 'Course on a 5'9+" frame (barefoot, and, honey, nobody saw me barefoot out on the quad!) that didn't look bad...
So, if YOU"RE an IC grad from "The Big Chill" class of '69, ID yourself & let me know if you'll be at reunion!
And, if you're female, you (obviously) won't be a Radio-TV major, cause I was "it!" But, that's OK!
And if you're a youngster from the classes of '79. '89 or, even, '99 - give me a shout out, too!
Especially if you're a RADIO-TV "girl!" Honeys, I could tell you stories about being the "token female" that would curl your hair and have you spitting nails!
Best, always!
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
So I've just updated allll of them! Click here to read the list of story titles in the righthand column: EMBODYSUCCESS!
These articles really will help all y'all understand how post-ops can sabotage their longterm weightloss chances BIG TIME.
And, except in rare exceptions, if you think all you need is a REVISION, think again! If you can stretch out your pouch once, you can do it again.
Why? How? It's all in my articles - FREE!
More questions? contact me!
Best, ALWAYS!
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
So I've just updated allll of them! Click here to read the list of story titles in the righthand column: EMBODYSUCCESS!
These articles really will help all y'all understand how post-ops can sabotage their longterm weightloss chances BIG TIME.
And, except in rare exceptions, if you think all you need is a REVISION, think again! If you can stretch out your pouch once, you can do it again.
Why? How? It's all in my articles - FREE!
More questions? contact me!
Best, ALWAYS!
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
my feature story on the "Biggest Loser" Casting Call!
Includes hyperlink to find locations in SOUTHEAST to pick up your copy of the FREE magazine.
PHOTO ALBUM of event there, too!
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
My story is the feature with the title: "LOSING AT WINNING AT LOSING."
It will be available ONLINE to read, download, forward, etc. on August 1 at:
www.oracle20-20.com
You can see a photo of the cover on my FB page.
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
I'll be visiting my Mom on Manhattan's Upper Westside for a week, starting TOMORROW!!
I cannot wait to put on my sneakers and walk my turf: generally,
Columbus Circle to 79th St., Broadway to CPW.
Spent the first 10 years growing up in the ANSONIA HOTEL on B'way. 73-74th Sts., the setting for the chiller movie, "SWF" and the comedy, "The Sunshine Boys."
Spent the next 10 on West 71st.
Had our firstborn while living on ROOSEVELT ISLAND (we were pioneers!)...
If you're seriously interested in my coaching to overcome self-sabotage program
(you can read all about it in the magazine articles linked on my blog)
I may be able to talk with you; and if you want your first program session in person while I'm there, email me ASAP.
Tomorrow's a travel day, but I'll be checking emails in the evening.
"Start spreading the news... I'm leavin' today. I wanna be a part of it: NEW YAWK, NEW YAWK!"
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
SEE MY PHOTO ALBUM and posts on my blog, EMBODYSUCCESS!
Because I'm a New Yorker (born, raised, & lived there with hubby*), part of me wished I could've covered the open casting call the same day at Rockefeller Plaza at the NBC Experience store. Anyone have pictures from that?
*(I was an editor working across the street in the NYC bureau of BROADCASTING magazine. Seems like another lifetime...)
Best always,
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Gimme a break and just -
Click below to read what they wrote about me!
Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Success Story" for Feb. 4, 2009! Lovingly, Lauralyn (born, raised & lived in Manhattan until 1979...)
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
I got to meet, talk with, get his book autographed to me and be professionally photographed with
Bravo-TV's "PROJECT RUNWAY" fashion guru: Tim Gunn!!!
To read about it & see the slide show click on:
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
As a former hospital chaplain and parish minister, I know the value of giving myself a "laughter break!" when I feel myself getting caught up in anxiety or melancholy.
A few days ago, I caught something on camera that seemed to tell a short story. I edited down the photos to 7, added captions and here it is (just click on the tabloid title)!
"DIET NIGHTMARE! SECRET EATER CAUGHT ON CAMERA!"(C)
Feel free to pass it on to whomever you think needs a laughter "quickie!"
Lovingly sent,
Lauralyn
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com
Lauralyn Bellamy, MA, MDIV, ct Dreamcoach
Self-sabotage stopped!
Learn more at: embodysuccesscoach.com