Saturday, April 13, 2013

Bariatric Advantage - One of the best Weight Loss product websites available!

Having gone through Sleeve Gastrectomy, I now have to focus on different nutritional intakes. Specifically, and anyone else who's gone through weight loss surgery and even those who are trying to lose weight and keep it off, I need to eat a diet that is High in Protein, and low in Carbohydrates and Sugars.

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One of the best product websites I've found has been Bariatric Choice. They have a large selection of products for those who have had weight loss surgery, folks who are just trying to lose and/or maintain their weight without going through surgery, and even those who just want to eat better.

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You can find everything from Meal Replacement shakes to Vitamin and Mineral supplements on their website, and their prices are really good too!

They offer several ways to save, including:

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  • Coupon offers.
  • Free shipping on orders $49+.
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  • WonderSlim Value Bundles.
  • Purchasing by the Case will save you 10-15%!
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FREE ebook about how to overcome Binge and Emotional Eating, on Amazon.com Today!

I was browsing the free ebooks for today on Amazon.com, and I came across one that I think would be particularly useful for us Weight Loss Surgery folks. I don't know about you, but I know I sometimes struggled with Binge and Emotional eating before surgery. By having weight loss surgery, I didn't have brain surgery, I created a tool surgically, reducing the amount I could eat, and thus this procedure did not change the way I think about or relate to food mentally. This is something I think a lot, if not all, weight loss surgery patients struggle with, and I don't think we ever truly "get past it" 100%. I think these are problems that we are always going to struggle with, in some shape or form, no matter how big or small, for the rest of our lives. Again, we had stomach surgery, NOT brain surgery!

This ebook is 100% free today, for the Kindle version. You can get it here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B2ZYW8S/?tag=100freebooks-book-preview-20

Also, you do not need a Kindle, to be able to download and read this ebook. You can download the Kindle app for just about any platform, from your computer to your smartphone to even reading on the Cloud in your browser window, here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_361458882_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-9&pf_rd_r=1RN68DYFDNBG7F1KEA8E&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1354791522&pf_rd_i=1000426311

So what are you waiting for? I can only promise that this ebook will be free Today only, and I don't know if it will ever be offered for free again in the future.

As a side note, I'm working on writing an ebook of my own as well. I'll keep you updated on that as it happens!

Until next time... Take care and Be Well!


Friday, December 21, 2012

Very good article!

So I happened upon this story through a friend of mine. It is a way that someone with Lupus tried to describe how daily life was for her, to a friend of her's that was healthy. For me, just replace the Lupus, with Fibromyalgia and/or Chronic Pain, and this story fits like a glove! Please give it a read!

http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

Thursday, November 1, 2012

4.5 month post up video update!

Hello folks!

Just wanted to link to the new video post I made regarding my surgery and how things have been going. It can be found here:

http://youtu.be/zrpywXJHimM

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Second guessing and increased pain

Hello everyone...

Well, I'm a few days over 4 months post op now, and boy what a crazy past month and a half or so it has been. This is probably going to be a quite lengthy blog entry, but I have a lot to share, so prepare yourself.

I guess to start off, I should tell you what chain of events happened starting back in the beginning of September. This is when I found out that I was going to become homeless if I staying in Las Vegas, NV. I won't go into detail about the hows and the whys of this, but lets just say it should not have happened. Regardless though, it did happen. This started a downward spiral of sorts into not eating so healthy. Since I was out of work, stopped getting my unemployment a couple of month prior to this time, and my husband was unable to help out as much as he would have liked to, this led to me really only eating what was available to eat that was in the house already. Things like chips, Ramen noodles, and canned spaghetti-o's, to name a few of the unhealthy things that I was putting into my body. Needless to say, I was NOT meeting my daily protein requirement, nor was I getting in most of my other essential vitamins/minerals, although, this is also in part, as well, due to the fact that I ran out of my supply of supplements too.

Skip forward a few weeks to near the end of September, when I made the trek back out to Virginia to take up residence with my husband again. I should have jumped back on the bandwagon here, with my eating habits and such, and did a half assed job, but still was falling short. The husband and myself, started resorting back to some old habits of eating out on most nights, and while this in and of itself is a problem, my entree choices were also an issue, as I wasn't picking the best items from the menu either.

On top of all the stress I've been dealing with the last month and a half or so, I have discovered that losing the 50+ lbs since surgery, that I've been experiencing more and more days of increasing intensity pain, pains in new areas and of different character than my norms, and a few new symptoms to boot. To make matters worse, all the stress and lack of nutrition, have really worn my body out. All the doctors, expect my surgeon, were very enthusiastic about the idea of me losing the weight and were 100% positive that by losing the weight, that it would resolve my pain problems. Boy were they wrong on that one.

Now I know a lot of you will say that the reason for all these new aches and pains is my lack of nutrition, etc. Well, let me stop you there by addressing the fact that the new pains and symptoms started appearing before the beginning of September, when I added a million and one to my stress levels and began eating poorly again. I will vindicate you some by agreeing that the lack of nutrition, stress, etc., is certainly not helping the situation any, however, I am positive that this did not cause it to appear.

As for present timing, I'm pretty well settled back here in Virginia again, and beginning my hunt for a doctor(s) that will be able to help me find out what is going on with my body and help me deal with this pain and my other symptoms. I started with my primary care doctor out here, who decided to try me on Butrans, and while I am willing to try anything to curb this pain and try to have as normal a life as possible, this stuff just doesn't cut the mustard. I gave it a full week, which it says relief may take up to a full 3 days to take effect, and I have gotten nothing good out of this medication. Not only has it not helped at all with my pain levels, it also has brought on intermittent severe nausea and an itchy, red rash where I placed the patch. Now, the rash could be due to the adhesive or the medication, and it's hard to tell which, since I'm not entirely sure. So, I'm waiting for a call back from their office today to find out what they are going to do, plus they are also supposed to be referring me out to a pain management specialist, as well.

I also wanted to address the issue of regret, as recently, I've been getting asked quite a bit if I regret having has the weight loss surgery done. I also watched an interesting documentary recently that addresses the issue of weight loss and it's effect on the perception of a healthy weight in this country. If you have Netflix, I would recommend giving it a watch. It can be found here:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/America_the_Beautiful_2_The_Thin_Commandments/70209265?trkid=496624

So back to the issue of regret. I wouldn't say I regret it, exactly, but if I had to go back and make the choice again, I can't say with 100% certainty that I would.

1) I can still eat just about anything I want to, just not in the amounts I used to be able to. This can pose a problem in itself, as in if you don't have the willpower to, most of the time, stay away from the types of foods that put you at an unhealthy weight in the first place, getting the surgery will be for not, as it isn't foolproof, and you can regain the weight you lose just by continuing to eat the same types of foods that made you unhealthy in the first place.

2) I've off and on have problems with nausea and vomiting. (way more than I was warned about and/or expected to have) I particularly had a bad time with vomiting throughout the month of September, when my stress levels were higher than they had been in a long time. Pretty much anything I tried to eat, almost immediately was vomited back up. Since I was on some antibiotics for a sinus infection, extremely stressed out and not eating properly, it's hard to tell which of these were to blame for the almost constant vomiting, or if it might have been a combination of things. Since I'm starting to get my eating back on track, and my stress levels are back down, mostly, I haven't had nearly as many problems with the vomiting. One of the other things that kind of goes into this category is when I drink water. My drinking water has to be cold, or there is a good chance I will vomit it back up, and especially true if I drink room temperature water too fast and/or too much at one time. There are times when I just want to sit and gulp water and I can't do that anymore.

3) If I had known before my surgery, that losing the weight would cause me to have more pain from my chronic conditions, in addition to new pains in new areas that are of a new character than my then current normal pain(s), I can certainly tell you that I might have not done this. I had this surgery done to become healthier, and reduce my pain, not cause it to get worse.

So in conclusion for this blog entry, life has been quite crazy the last month and a half or so, and I've had a wide array of emotional "trips" throughout this time as well. Right now, as far as the surgery goes, I'm loving the smaller body I have, I feel more sexy and attractive at times, than I did before I lost the weight. I however regret having it done a bit, only because I was not prepared for, nor did I want to have to deal with more pain than I was in prior to surgery. The other concerns I listed in this blog are up in the air items. They do not influence me to as notable a degree when thinking about if I would go through surgery all over again.

So Anywho... I think that's enough for now. Til next time....