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Surgery + 7 days It’s never fun having a medical procedure, little lone having 80% of your stomach removed. But I have to say this was not the painful thing I’ve had to endure. I had to be at the hospital by 5:30am. By 7:30, I was blacked out. My brain did not exactly come […]

The Creep

I have been in a semi-fasting state for a week and a half. It started as a liquid protein diet, but it is just easier to eat nothing. I dropped 15 pounds in one week, but I have plateaued since. My ketones remain low, so I know my liver should be in good shape for […]

New Journey

I am at the beginning of a new journey. It is unlike anything I have done for years and it is purely for my own wellbeing. I am having fat surgery or to be more precise, I am getting a gastric sleeve. In a nutshell, they will be removing roughly 80% of my stomach to […]

Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

My favorite quote from the Harry Potter series is spoken by Dumbledore shortly after Harry has been struck down by Voldemort. Harry is experiencing the afterlife and he asks his former headmaster if any of this is real or if it is all just in his head. Here is Dumbledore’s brilliant reply: “Of course it […]

Step 2b…or not 2b

What I am trying to focus on for my recovery is the fact that I am not the center of the universe. I am not alone.

Step 2…insane in the membrane

“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” I will divide the next posts into two sections: Sanity and Higher Power. Sanity: noun; the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health. When I think of sanity or the lack thereof, I often […]

Step 1

Anyone on the street looking at me would instantly recognize me as having food issues.

My name is…

I decide that my diet is not the issue. The core issue is that no matter what I eat (healthy or otherwise), I eat too much.