Melissa Peaks, Author at Melissa Loses It

19 June 2018

Gosh, I have some work to do on myself ……

I’ve been looking at and assessing where I’m at lately and I’ve come to the conclusion that I have some serious work to do. I…

23 May 2018

Well how about that, time has flown by and now my little old blog is three! I really didn’t know what to expect with my…

16 May 2018

Season 2 of The Big Ward, oh how I waited for you! It’s nice to see bariatric surgery being talked about on TV. My main…

11 May 2018

Food intolerance, to some degree or another, after gastric bypass is normal and should be expected. After gastric bypass surgery we have to work our…

13 March 2018

Season two of The Big Ward is finally on our screens. It’s a TV series made here in New Zealand and follows patients in one…

8 March 2018

I have a confession to make, I am a lazy cook (or efficient, we’ll never know.) Today I’m going to share my meatloaf recipe with…

2 March 2018

I was reminded recently that having had weight loss surgery puts you in a weird position. I was having a whinge about the fact that…

17 February 2018

The experience of having weight loss surgery is like nothing else you have or will ever do in life. There are a million and one…

6 February 2018

One of the most incredible things my gastric bypass surgery gave me was that for the first time in my life I felt happy with…

11 January 2018

What a week to be 39 weeks pregnant. My week started on Christmas eve, I had family things going on Christmas and Boxing Day and…