The Cabbage Soup Diet {Recipe}

Cabbage Soup ~This recipe is intended to go along with the cabbage soup diet. I make no claims that the cabbage soup diet is healthy or effective. However, the recipe is simply that..a recipe…and certainly can be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle as cabbage is very healthy anyway. 6 large green onions (scallions) 2 green peppers 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole) 3 carrots 1 container (10 oz. or so) mushrooms 1 bunch of celery half a head of cabbage 1 package spice only soup mix (Lipton was suggested to me from the friend who sent me the recipe.) 1 or 2 cubes of bouillon (optional) … Continue reading →

Rhytidectomy After Weight Loss: Sagging Facial Issues

If you have lost an excessive amount of weight and are bothered by sagging facial skin, take heart because there is hope. Sagging skin after losing weight is quite normal. Do not let this from preventing you from losing weight. Weight loss is a very healthy attitude in terms of your health. If could save your life. Exercise will definitely help you to get the skin tone back for some people. Some people, however, are not as fortunate and must deal with the excess skin that comes from being very overweight and then shrinking back down. Sagging skin can also … Continue reading →

Arm Lift Surgery: Brachioplasty for Batwings

When you lose weight it is such a great feeling, isn’t it? You are feeling good and your self-confidence has soared. If you have lost a great deal of weight, however, there is still one more thing that is bothering you. The loose skin. If you have been exercising right along with dieting you will fare better than those who just diet alone without the means of exercise. Even so some will still have some areas on their body that they just cannot seem to tone up. A crucial area for many is the little flap of skin underneath your … Continue reading →

Line Your Intestines, Lose Weight!

I am constantly amazed at the things we as human beings will go through to try to lose weight. Being overweight drains us emotionally and physically, it drags down our self-esteem, it keeps us from doing everything we’d like to, and it’s just so hard to overcome. It’s really no wonder that the weight loss industry is raking in the big bucks, but this one really make me shake my head. There is now a removable liner being developed that you can have inserted into your intestines that mimics some of the positive aspects of gastric bypass surgery. However, the … Continue reading →

BEWARE: There is No Magic Pill – or Magic Injection

If you’ve been trying to lose weight for a while, chances are you’ve heard of LipoDissolve treatments. Supposedly, you can go see a doctor and he’ll inject a chemical into your fattiest fat places that will simply melt the fat away. Yep, just melt it away. Don’t be a sucker. One company that promised this magic fat meltaway injection is Go Fig Inc. This is a very interesting choice in names when you consider what has happened to some of its patients. But first, let’s use a little bit of logic to examine the promise of lipodissolve treatments. The injection … Continue reading →

Gastric Banding Sucks

Let me qualify that statement before I go any further. In 2001, I had a gastric bypass. That procedure involves stapling off most of the stomach pouch so that you end up with a stomach the size of a shot glass. You eat less food, suffer serious side effects when you eat greasy or sugary foods and thereby lose a lot of weight. With the help of a good diet and regular exercise, I lost 90 pounds. A couple friends of mine have since had the same procedure and lost a great deal of weight. None of us suffered from … Continue reading →

Suddenly Skinny

I’m not a big Oprah watcher but one recent show she did, entitled “Suddenly Skinny”, was very important for me to see. While the folks on Oprah’s message boards are up in arms about it, I thought it was well done and high time that somebody finally brought this issue out into the open. The show focused on women who had gastric bypass surgery and then suffered from addiction transfer. The show did not imply that all people who undergo gastric bypass surgery suffer from this but it did bring the issue out into the open and get a healthy, … Continue reading →

Suicidal After Weight Loss Surgery?

I know, I know. You’re probably thinking: “Hey, you aren’t obese anymore, you’ve lost 100 pounds and all your health problems have cleared up. What have you got to be suicidal about?!” The University of Pittsburgh recently completed a study that showed that among people aged from 25 to 34 who had weight loss surgery, the suicide rate was considerably higher than that of the general population. Having had a gastric bypass in 2001, I’d like to address this from my own personal point of view. When you’ve been overweight all of your life, it becomes part of your identity. … Continue reading →

Morbid Obesity and Weight Loss Surgery

There comes a point where a person has become so obese that weight loss simply stops and other health issues arise. When you get to that point, diet, exercise programs, appetite suppressants and behavior modifications are just not effective any more. When you weigh 264, losing 5 pounds is a drop in the bucket. When I took this before picture, I was eating a healthy diet (and much less food than my husband who weighed far less than me) as well as walking for an hour on a treadmill every day. I couldn’t run because the weight was too much … Continue reading →

Learning How to Eat After a Gastric Bypass

Everything about eating changes after you’ve had a gastric bypass. Your new stomach is about the size of a shot glass (yes, it’ll stretch like your old stomach over time) and part of your small intestine that used to be responsible for most nutrient absorption has been bypassed. Because of these major changes, and your recovering from surgery, you’ll have to go on a special diet for your first few months after surgery. Doctors’ orders can vary. I wasn’t allowed to eat for a couple days after my surgery in 2001 but my friend who had surgery in 2004 was … Continue reading →