Hitting Bottom – What Helped Guide Me Toward Gastric Bypass Surgery

Thanksgiving, what a wonderful time especially when spent with family and friends. The food sure was good – I am lucky that I did not burst the pouch that was constructed when I had my gastric bypass surgery last year.  Today I learned that one of our neighbors died unexpectedly and they think it was [...]

Is Weight Loss Surgery the Best Way to Lose Weight?

There are a number of ways that we can loose weight. What most want to learn about when they visit Terminal Obesity or another weight loss surgery site is gastric bypass surgery or lap band surgery. Yet, surgery is not necessarily the best way for many people to lose weight. For others yours truly included [...]

Covering the Cost of Weight Loss Surgery

Has your doctor suggested you undergo gastric bypass or lap band weight loss surgery?  If so, this is a suggestion you should give serious consideration to.  When a doctor suggests bariatric weight loss surgery, he or she is usually doing so to protect your health and wellbeing.  For those severely or morbidly obese weight loss [...]

Signs That You May Need to Lose Weight

When we are seriously overweight we realize that we need to change our lifestyle and perhaps check into bariatric weight loss surgery. Hey doc grab that stapler – strap up that stomach! Many of us have spent a lifetime losing and gaining weight. Surprisingly enough many others are really unsure if they need to lose [...]

Robin Moran Day July 28, 2009

I love rainbows and the stories about a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. To me Robin Moran has exhibited the beauty and heart of a rainbow becoming one of my favorite people. For years Robin has struggled with her own weight and medical issues while at the same time she has [...]

101 Ways to Use Zucchini and Here’s a Dieters Favorite!

Perhaps the economy is not that great but its been a bountiful year with many of us having weight loss surgery, going on diets and working on improving our health in general. Many of us planted gardens in the spring or early summer. Tending those gardens is getting us outdoors, giving us a bit of [...]

Terry One Year After Gastric Bypass Surgery

July 17, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of my gastric bypass weight loss surgery. I am not slim and beautiful and will not be down to the weight that I had expected to be for my 68th birthday on July 24th but maybe I will be for Christmas. I really wanted to go skydiving for [...]

Weight Loss Success Comes in Many Forms

This story of weight loss success was shared with us. While this person was not a weight loss surgery patient their attitude is applicable to all of us.  Traditional dieter, gastric band patient, gastric bypass patient it really makes little difference. I hope you get as much out of this readers success story as I [...]

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