I shared a guest post I wrote on the blog of Dr. Arya Sharma. Shortly after, I gott an email that said the following: “How much did you weigh before? What do you weigh now? How tall are you?” No hi. No “this is who I am and this is why I am asking.” So let’s put aside for a moment …

I would consider 2012 the WORST year of my life. I lost my house to the housing bubble, my mother to ailments forever unknown, my world turned upside down — and that was just the first four months of the year! Quite frankly, I didn’t know how or even if I’d survive the rest of it. 2013 was a little …

Now that I’m nearly 7 years out I can say this pretty confidently. In my first few years I THOUGHT I had it all together. I went to the gym regularly. I followed all the rules my bariatric surgeon gave me. I “ate to live instead of living to eat” because “nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” Bullcrap. Plenty …

The other day I decided to write down the assumptions on which I moderate Bariatric Foodie, in general. I think it’s a good exercise to make sure what you think you believe is what you actually believe. So here goes. I operate on the assumption that: #1 – You are all adults. You know how to make good decisions for yourself …

One of the big contradictions I see in our community is this. We are all about getting healthier so we can love ourselves. Yet…by most objective measures most of us…don’t. We don’t love ourselves. When I ask on here for folks to say something they like about themselves, many times folks feel compelled to throw in a negative with the …