GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL
REWARD & PUNISHMENT Yummy food rewards for good behavior, and severe punishment or deprivation for bad behavior, go back a long way in my psyche. With every good intention, my mom trained me using...
View ArticleWHAT DOES MORBID OBESITY REALLY MEAN?
Anyone who’s known me for more than 10 or 15 minutes knows that I love to laugh. I even laugh about my obesity, when otherwise I might cry. But obesity is not a laughing matter. Obesity is serious....
View ArticleWLS NITTY GRITTY
The NITTY GRITTY of WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY Nobody can predict the course or outcome of your weight loss surgery, but Im going to try anyway, starting with a simile that most of us can understand. WLS is...
View ArticleLap Banders Need an internal anti-inflammatory...
Therefore, our primary focus is to avoid food blockages and secondly learn how to manage them. To understand the top three key points that will help you avoid food blockages, get your free ebook at...
View ArticleTHINK THIN, BE THIN
THINK THIN, BE THIN I think I’m well qualified to speak on this subject, since once upon a time my schoolmates chanted, “Fatty, Fatty, two by four, can’t fit through the kitchen door!” when I walked...
View ArticleFear: Friend or Foe?
For most of us starting a WLS journey, bariatric surgery is vast, uncharted territory, full of unknowns. We long for a happy outcome – maximum weight loss with minimum problems. We listen to stories...
View ArticleLest We Forget
I used to cringe when I saw photos of Fat Jean, but now I want to hug that unhappy girl and tell her that life is good. When I look in the mirror now, I see a "normal" sized woman who strangers would...
View Article9 Reasons To Weigh & Measure Your Food
Tell me why you don’t weigh and measure you food before putting it on your plate. Is it painful? Surely not. Is it impossibly difficult? No, I can’t believe that either. Or do your cups, spoons, and...
View ArticlePreparing for Surgery and the Hospital
Pre-Surgery Medical Care A lot of preparation is necessary before you can get banded. You’ll have medical tests and appointments, and have to follow a pre-surgery diet. You’ll learn more about the...
View ArticleWhen Your Bandwagon Stalls
It happens to everyone sooner or later. Your bandwagon stalls. You’ve been going great guns, fired up with enthusiasm, working that tool, doing all the right things, and losing weight. Then one day the...
View ArticleHow does a gastric band REALLY work?
I have found that sadly there are a lot of misconceptions around gastric bands. Firstly, there is a misconception that the gastric band creates a small stomach that must be ‘filled’ to feel full. There...
View ArticleA successful journey? Its up to you.
Both professionals in the field and those who have had or are considering having surgery themselves seem to be involved in an ongoing debate over what is the best type of weight loss surgery. The three...
View ArticleThe Clean Plate Club
I belonged to the CPC (Clean Plate Club) for over 50 years, so I consider myself something of an expert on it (and I am, after all, The Worlds Greatest Living Expert on Everything). I thought it was a...
View ArticleEat Anything You Want & Still Lose Weight!
My brother is a highly intelligent man. This was proven decades ago, when IQ tests (performed while his teachers and parents tried to figure out why he was a miserable little bugger) showed a genius...
View ArticleLunch is Over!
It’s 12:15 pm. Sad to say, your meal is over now. I used to work with a recovering food addict (I'll call her Wendy) whose work station was about four feet away from mine. We both went to lunch in the...
View ArticleWhen You Can't Control the Food
Sooner or later you'll find yourself in a situation where you have little or no control over the food served. That doesn't mean you have to abandon all your band eating skills or go hungry. The key is...
View ArticleTalk to the Doc
LET ME MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR… Or maybe not so perfectly. How about adequately? It should come as no surprise when I tell you that I love languages, especially English. My mother was an English...
View ArticleCan't Get No Satisfaction?
I CANT GET NO! We all want satisfaction, dont we, in everything we do or experience. As Americans, we consider satisfaction part of our birthright. But does weight loss success require us to eat...
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Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Work We Go!
Coworkers occupy a unique position in our lives. Theyre closer than acquaintances, but not as close as families and friends even though we generally spend more time with them than just about anyone...
View ArticleThe Bariatric Work Ethic
As much as you might wish otherwise, the work that produces weight loss success and lifetime maintenance is hard, especially when you’re already worn out from health problems and from lugging all that...
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