Reading Food Labels
I vaguely remember being taught to read food labels in food technology at high school and I retained a very basic amount of that information.…
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Skin care after weight loss surgery
I have found since my surgery one of the questions people are most interested in but are least willing to ask is how has my…
Milestones and Tracking Your Progress
Going from being morbidly obese with a BMI of 48 and being 132 kgs to losing 70 kgs and having a BMI in the normal…
Does weight loss surgery affect your Self-Esteem?
I will start this post by saying that we each have a very different experience in life and our own sense of self-esteem is influenced…
Post Gastric Bypass Dumping Syndrome
One of the most daunting things I found when I was considering gastric bypass surgery was dumping syndrome. It was the biggest post surgery unknown…
I said Brrrr it’s cold in here……
I have never been so cold so often in my life as I have been since my gastric bypass surgery. I had my surgery in…
My Beauty Review Article
This article was originally posted over on Beauty Review in August of last year and the lovely ladies from Beauty Review are happy for me to…
Goal weight and how to pick one
How did I pick a goal weight? I found after my gastric bypass surgery when I was in the initial stages and losing weight at…
The Hardest Breakup
There is much, much more to bariatric surgery than just the physiological side of it and the effects that it has directly on your body.…
Protein Milk Comparison
Since my protein intake has become the sole focus of my diet I am now instantly drawn to any product I see in the supermarket…