Why I Decided To Have WLS My story begins when I was in grade school. I learned from a very early age that sugar foods tasted great. I believed in my soul that if one bite is good, then two hundred bites would be better. I came home from school
12 Small Nutrition Changes That Can Add Up To Big Results! As the New Year approaches, so does the opportunity to get a fresh start and create new resolutions or goals to improve your health, both physically and mentally. Unfortunately, everyone dreads creating their New Year’s resolutions, since in many
Why I Decided To Have WLS I've have been overweight all of my life but I never let it get in my way. I was always very athletic, and I never let it hinder me. In 1990, I gave birth to my greatest gift, my son. Even though I was
Why I Decided To Have WLS I was 11 years old and all my friends got taller, I got wider. At the early age of 11, I found food wasn’t just fuel, but a comfort. Celebrate? Let’s eat! Sad? Eat, it will make you feel better. Bored? Have a Ding Dong
What I Know About Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery Weight regain is not inevitable. Weight regain happens because you are eating more calories than your body requires to maintain its current weight. Weight regain is highly emotionally charged. To deal with regain successfully, you need to move past the emotion
You've heard the old saying, “time flies”. As I look back at myself pre-WLS, my weight was over 240 pounds and my general health was rapidly declining. Fast forward to today, the time as a WLS post-op has flown by. I made the decision that enough is enough and began
Why I Decided to Have WLS After having difficulty conceiving our last child, my doctor explained the possibility that I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, P.C.O.S. However, once we were able to successfully get pregnant and deliver our son, I thought I had been misdiagnosed. After losing all my baby weight,
Why I Decided to Have WLS It took almost 20 years for me to finally be comfortable in my own skin. Being a survivor of domestic abuse and other types of abuse, I finally realized that I was beautiful – no matter what size I am. I did have insecurities
In the world of weight-loss surgery, there are a lot of words and phrases that can sound pretty strange very quickly. To an outsider, words like “dumping” or “slider” may even seem a little alarming! We use acronyms like VSG and WLS and NSV. Someone new to bariatric living might
