Losing Myself, Identifying Myself & Taking Responsibility For It All (life after my sleeve gastrectomy)
Through out the time I have blogged, I have been open as to the goings on in my life. I have readily told of my morbid obesity, my weight loss surgery, my struggles to find my footing between being extremely restrictive in what I eat or going completely overboard. I have shared my struggles with seeing myself in photos past, and shared my love of seeing myself in photos present. I have told you of my bouts with muscle weakness and a diagnosis of muscle disease, and I told you how I joined the gym and started to work on my strength. So here we are. Its January 2013. I’m fatter than I was the last time I blogged about my own personal weight loss surgery voyage. I’m fatter than I was the last time I blogged a few weeks ago. I am carrying an extra 20lbs....
The Latest Bariatric Surgery Product, it Astounds and Horrifies!
Bariatric Surgery is known to be restrictive, malabsorptive, or both. But what happens when bariatrics take a turn, offering a different option all together. What happens when medically approved binging becomes the newest option being sold to the obese community? Have no doubt about it, this is a product, a sales pitch and I believe it is incredibly dangerous. Do you remember the trending fad in 2011? It was the NG tube diet. A good many of us sat back and shook our heads, words flew out of our fingers as we blogged about it, pleas escaped our faces as we begged our readers and our friends to not fall victim to such a stupid thing. I am happy to report that I have personally only seen one person walking about with an NG tube taped to her face, while walking...
Remission and Relapse in type II Diabetes post Gastric Bypass Surgery.
There is a new study out, and the WLS nay saying bloggers are gearing up to go to town with it. So lets take a look at the study for ourselves. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23161525 Obes Surg. 2012 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print] A Multisite Study of Long-term Remission and Relapse of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Following Gastric Bypass. Arterburn DE, Bogart A, Sherwood NE, Sidney S, Coleman KJ, Haneuse S, O’Connor PJ, Theis MK, Campos GM, McCulloch D, Selby J. Source Group Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA, arterburn.d@ghc.org. Abstract BACKGROUND: Gastric bypass has profound effects on glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The goal of this study was to examine the long-term...
Your worst memory, could be happening to your child too!
Do you remember that horrible time when you got on a scale in gym class? I know that many of you do. I know this because so many of us have shared our own sorrows over the hurt feelings that resulted in those days. It was barbaric, right? Thank God they don’t do THAT anymore… right? Well hold on to your seat parents, because its happening in schools all over the United States and Canada, and your permission is not needed. A few weeks ago my 7 year old came downstairs after everybody had gone to bed. He sat on the ottoman in front of me and said “Mommy, can I tell you something?”. He had those big ol’ fat tears that just linger in the bottom of his eye lids. My heart sank, because what ever this was, it was really upsetting him and...
What do you do when things are beyond your control?
Its been a crazy month here. My dad has been diagnosed with leukemia, my niece has had a major surgery, my hometown has been devastated by hurricane Sandy and they are getting smacked down again by a nor’easter. With each event my heart aches, my brain spins, and I feel completely and utterly helpless and desperate. These are the moments when my poorest habits creep back in. I look for comfort any way I can find it. And I don’t want to be that person who whines, or seeks sympathy, I don’t want to call attention to myself, because these issues are not mine to call attention to. So my habits are what I fall on. I withdraw. Withdrawing is bad news for somebody like me. If I have withdrawn from the people who I am accountable to, I allow myself to...
Cottage Cheese, it can actually taste good.
Two days ago I posted on my facebook page that I was going to do the cottage cheese test, to get an idea of the size of my stomach. Immediately the comments came in “cottage cheese smells like feet” “Cottage cheese makes me gag” and in my inbox “OMG Michelle, cottage cheese is sour milk!”. Now, I personally HATED cottage cheese. I had tried it way back when I use to attempt to diet. I tried it before my surgery and right after my surgery. It was never ever appealing to me. Not at all. Let me also point out that I use to gag at the thought of yogurt, and we all know how I feel about Greek yogurt now. I had some cottage cheese recently. Plain, low fat cottage cheese. It didn’t disgust me. It didn’t thrill me. It...
Crock Pot Steel Cut Oats Revisted
I’m reposting one of the biggest hits on this blog and one of the biggest hits in my household. Crock Pot Steel Cut Oats. Since I first published this post, I have received all kinds of feedback. Some people use only water, to keep the calories down. Some use all skim milk. Others use all apple juice to make a sweet apple flavored oatmeal. Here’s the thing folks. You can’t go wrong. Just use 4.5 cups of liquid and 1 cup of steel cut oats. Make sure you always use a bowl to cook it in, rather than cooking it straight in the crock pot dish. Season it/flavor it how ever you like. Pure vanilla extract is my favorite, but any other extracts would be yummy too. We also used maple syrup and honey instead of brown sugar, and there are other times...
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