Let’s have a chat about publicly funded Weight Loss Surgery
Well I say let’s have a chat but here I am writing a blog post that’s totally uninterrupted and allows me to form my thoughts…
Pre-op
Own Your Bariatric Journey!
There is one main ingredient that is crucial to your success after bariatric surgery. While the choice of exactly which surgery to have is important…
I don’t judge you for choosing not to have weight loss surgery
One of my the things I am really trying to achieve with my blog is to get a real, experiential record of what it’s like…
Pre-op Worries: What if I don’t lose any weight?
I’m fairly sure every single person who is about to have weight loss surgery goes into the operating theatre with a small fear that they…
Pre-op Worries: Cooking for other people following bariatric surgery
I always really enjoyed cooking and baking and before my surgery baking, especially, was one of my biggest hobbies. When I decided to have my…
Pre-op worries: The anaesthetic
When you are deciding to have bariatric surgery there are many things you need to take into account. Just like any other surgical procedure there…
Pre-Op worries: Randomly being sick
Making the decision to have bariatric surgery was one of the biggest decisions I have ever made in my life. While you know it can…
Pre-op appointments and stress
If you’re looking at trying to get bariatric surgery in New Zealand on the public health system it’s going to be a bit of a…
The Importance of the Pre-op Diet
The pre-op surgical diet that we have to do before bariatric surgery is, I think, one of the most unifying things in the bariatric surgery…
A gastric bypass research opportunity for my readers!
Updated Feb 2017: Please note Sara has enough participants and she is not currently accepting anyone else. The internet is such an amazing place. This…