General Post Bariatric Travel Tips! Travel Series: part 4
Having bariatric surgery such a gastric bypass like I did changes pretty much everything about your life. It’s not just that you eat a lot…
Strategies for Success
A Post Gastric Bypass Day In Food
I recently had a great message sent to my Melissa Loses It Facebook page (the link is on that button up there to the right)…
Plane Food! Part 1 of my post-op travel series
If you haven’t been following me on one of my social media accounts (Links from the buttons up there to the right) you may not…
Internal self talk and weight loss surgery success
We all have that one constant companion who offers comment, judgment and a highly unedited view on everything we do and see. That little voice…
Habits
One thing that has become greatly apparent since my gastric bypass surgery is how much of my behaviour around food was purely habitual. Once you…
Mindfulness
I did a lot of work sorting out my head issues before my gastric bypass. I guess somewhere deep down inside I knew that the…
A letter to my pre-op gastric bypass self
Today I would like to share a letter to my pre-op gastric bypass self that I wrote...... Dear Melissa, So you made the decision to have…
Protein in Food
You may have seen my first post about reading food labels and if you haven’t you can check it out here. That post was about the…
Organisation Success Post Gastric Bypass
Organisation is one of my main keys to post-op bariatric success. I tend to be a very organised and ordered person by nature. This trait…
My 10 Post-op Golden Rules
Here are my golden rules for life after gastric bypass surgery. Literally everything in my life in regards to food has changed after gastric bypass…