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Today in Post-Rachelism: Weight-Loss Surgery a Touchy Topic
No wonder people who’ve had gastric bypass are loathe to tell others about it: Soon as they do, judgment awaits. My “Fed Up” series of posts about my friend Rachel included an intro, two-part Q&A, one-week follow-up and yesterday, a 19-day progress report. My goodness, what a response. In addition to comments on the blog,…
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FED UP: Rachel, 19 Days after Gastric-Bypass Surgery
An update from Rachel, with a teensy bit of editing. Hi, Leslie: So, 19 days after surgery, I’ve lost 25 pounds. I’m within seven pounds of being back at the 53-pound weight loss mark I reached as a result of going to Choices Weight Management in Raleigh back in 2007-2008. (When I started at Choices,…
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Time to Buy a New Swimsuit. Oh, What Joy.
My current swimsuit is not long for this world. Time to give it a decent burial. I bought it about three years ago at TJ Maxx. It was one of those too-rare occasions when I went to TJM to look for something specific, and actually found it – right up front, in the seasonal “swim”…
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View from the Plateau: Kinda Sucky
I’m down 27 pounds and holding, and not the least bit happy about it. I’ve reached a plateau. My desire is flagging, my discipline is out the window. I’m always sleepy and craving sweets. I’ve made promises to myself that I’ve broken, and though I’m healthier than I was when I started in February, I’m…
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‘Plus-Size Activewear’ is Not an Oxymoron
Folks, I can’t seem to get back to the gym, and I’ve lost almost all motivation. I say almost, because I can think of one thing that will get me back ASAP, and that’s new workout clothes. I really don’t have a thing to wear. My old, trusty black sweats are so worn out, even…
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One Big Embarrassing Family, Thanks to TLC
The show One Big Happy Family is back tonight. I watched all six 30-minute shows when it debuted in January, much as one would watch a trainwreck. I’m not disgusted with the Coles – each one of whom weighed more than 300 pounds – but with TLC. The editing made the Coles family look like fools.…
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Why There’s No Blog Post Today
9 p.m. Thursday: Trey, who’s out driving my car, calls to report the “check engine” light is back on. Great. This, after my car spent seven hours today with the mechanic, who swore it would pass inspection in the morning. 10 p.m.: Time to dump the water out of Sky’s Breg Polar Care 300 cryotherapy…
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Meatless Mondays? Sounds like a Great Idea
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the Meatless Monday movement, an international campaign to get everyone to reduce their meat consumption by 15 percent for not only our own health, but the health of the planet. Works for me. The most recent story I read about the movement was in The Huffington Post. It…
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Today: On a ‘Sympathy’ Fast
In another hour, I’ll be taking my daughter to Duke Raleigh Hospital for knee surgery. Her previous surgeries have all be fairly early, so not eating or drinking wasn’t that big of a deal. Today, though, it’s been a little difficult, because even though we must arrive by 2:15 p.m., her surgery isn’t until 4:15.…
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Five Days of Cake and Ice Cream
There’s a cake in the house, and there will be another one on Saturday. In-between, quite a bit of ice cream. The one currently downstairs is a bakery cake, a one-quarter sheet cake, the kind you get for birthdays and baby showers and . . . in this case . . . congratulations. The hubby…
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