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Like The Best Compliment Ever!
Recently, I had two separate friends on two separate occasions pay me the best compliments. Let me preface this by talking about something else for a minute. I have written the past about having...
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The Fat Pejorative
You really want to insult a woman? Make her feel like she’s nothing? Let her know that no matter what she’s accomplished in her life, the only thing that matters about her is her outward appearance?...
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Talking About Food – Liquid Pizza (Writing 101 Day One Challenge)
Today is my first food post for my June blogging challenge. Not too many people understand meal planning and restrictions for bariatric patients. Today I am going to share a recipe for one of my...
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A Room With A View: What Gastric By-Pass Surgery I Really Like
Today’s Writing 101 Assignment is called “A Room With A View” and they are asking us to look ahead and talk about a place we’d like to go. I am going to turn the assignment on its ear a bit and talk...
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A Few Of My Favorite Things
I am a huge vegetable fan. Two of my favorites are kale and spinach. I have a great kale and spinach recipe that I want to share since today is Wednesday, and therefore food day Now I’m horrible at...
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Breaking The Rules – Emotional Highs
Today’s post is a little bit late. Sorry about that. I know I have a set program that I am supposed to follow, per my own rules, but I want to talk about what I have been doing the past couple of days,...
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Sometimes I Forget
Sometimes, I forget what it was like to be 300 pounds. More correctly, sometimes I forget that I am no longer 300 pounds. I have been kind of down because my weight loss has stalled. I have been...
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Thrown Off Course
I was thrown off course with my exercise plan last week. I had not been feeling great the week before that and my exercise slowed down. I was tired a lot and started having trouble taking deep...
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Looking Back
Two years ago today, I weighed 298 pounds and was in the hospital. I had my gastric by-pass surgery October 24, 2012. It’s amazing how my life has changed! I’m not quite at my goal weight yet, but I...
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The Choices We Make
I have a co-worker, a young millennial who has a loud vibrant personality. She is brash, unapologetic, and funny. I wouldn’t have her any other way. She recently moved offices and I miss the energy...
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