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 [...]

Gastric Bypass Surgery for Weight Loss

From your next door neighbor to television celebrities we see those that seem to have experienced a sudden weight loss. For some their new svelte figure has been the result of liposuction and others a dedication to diet and exercise. Still for others the answer was gastric bypass weight loss surgery.
Qualifying for a gastric bypass [...]

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 [...]

Weight Loss Surgery and Traditional Dieting Truth and Myth

Weight loss surgery patients and traditional dieters we so often live in a world of weight loss fantasy. 24/7 the internet, television, radio, magazines and other media promote weight loss products, pills, meals, exercise equipment and plans. We so badly want to believe these easy weight loss methods that we spend our hard earned dollars [...]

Weight Loss Surgery a Drastic Decision?

Most obese individuals have tried many different weight loss programs. With each of these programs we loose weight only to gain it back. If we are to listen to skinny people that have never had a weight gain problem in their life we are failures. In our hearts we know that  just because we are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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