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The First Seven Weeks
Seven weeks ago, on June 26, 2017, I started a journey unlike any other I had undertaken before -the journey to a new and healthier me. It began with a roux en y gastric bypass, which is a form of weight loss surgery. As part of the diet, I had to spend the first two weeks on clear liquids and the last four weeks on full liquids and purees. July 26th was my one month mark. One month out of surgery. I was still in the liquids/puree stage and had lost thirty pounds since the surgery. A lot of people on the Facebook support groups I join seem to have…
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The Beginning of a New Weight Loss Journey
The title of this post makes it sound like I just jumped on the wagon of a new fad diet, but this story is a lot more involved than that and starts a lot further back than just last week. On Monday, June 26th, I underwent a roux en y gastric bypass, a procedure which aids in weight loss by bypassing a a portion of the stomach and intestines altogether. This was a decision I did not enter into lightly. I spent a long time thinking long and hard about it, even before I approached my doctor to talk about weight loss solutions. We discussed all my prior attempts…
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Crying for the Future
Dear Bernie, Please keep on keeping on, doing your job as only you can, and please please please PLEASE come back to us in 2020. No matter what anyone else says, especially not the established Parties, you are one who should be president right now. The one who truly could have ‘made America great,’ not by your political inffluence or boardroom experience, but by your heart. Because you truly love your country and want what no other politician today does – for us to be better than we are now. Not stay the same. Not go back to the past. But to reach for a better tomorrow. As each day…
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I Hate Exercise
There is no easy or kind way to say this. I hate exercise. I’m not the type of person who jogs or bikes or rows or whatever as a hobby. I don’t play sports. I actually kind of suck at sports. I like to swim, but since we moved and no longer have a pool, going swimming means going to a public pool and being SEEN in a bathing suit. And the public pool is mostly filled with little kids, since it’s part of the YMCA here and their daycare let’s the kids swim all day (with parental permission) and yeah… not worth it for me. I like to walk,…
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Meternity, by Meghann Foye
Yesterday I paid my $9.99 to purchase and download the fiction novel Meternity, by Meghann Foye. The book is surrounded by controversy, mostly because of Ms. Foye’s proclamation that she wants all the perks of maternity leaving without having to give birth. And that, apparently, in this new entitled generation (Sadly, it turns out that Ms. Foye is 38, making her 3 years younger than me, and how could anyone born close to my same decade be so entitled and delusional?), maternity leave is a “socially mandated time and space for self-reflection.” I shudder. Do people really think this? Do they not realize that maternity leave…
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