Fat to Fab Friday

Well hello there. I haven’t seen you since 1992.

I’m not certain, but is there daylight showing? Who knew? Hello 193.

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Soul Sistah.

This is pretty much a guest blog from my friend Ruby, although she doesn’t blog so I’m cutting and pasting from an email. I just want everyone to cheer on her progress as much as I do…because she is a wonderful person worthy of all the energy and love that the Universe can send [...]

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My body is a One-derland

In surgical weight loss circles, the word “Wonderland” is retranslated One-derland; that magical moment that the scale reflects a weight under 200 pounds. And on Thursday morning, I hit 199 for a total of 77 pounds lost in the last year.
The last time I was 199…
I was 18 years old, living in Springfield [...]

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Weight loss by osmosis

After I left, lil pill and I began having one huge battle after another. I realize now that he was afraid I’d leave him…as he’d had no choice in me leaving his dad. Right after Christmas, once the initial relief faded, the pill could find nothing right with his world. [...]

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Slow and steady wins the race. Recovery.

I was released around 10 a.m. on 9/18 after my doctor found absolutely no reason to keep me any longer. This was quite a relief, as we’d already made plans and I didn’t want to be in the hospital one minute more than I had to be. Mom and I swung by lil [...]

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