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The Fridge Picker Before

After a time of discovery and letting go, I made the choice to get weight loss surgery. Revisit my before shots

Meet those who lurk in the Fridge

I've created a community of Facebook, for those of you who read my blog and want to lean on the community of support I've grown to love and appreciate. Go visit it now!

What is Gastric Sleeve Surgery?

I tell you my version of the surgery I went through, a Sleeve Gastrectomy. The ins and outs of it, and what I've learned since having the surgery.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

It starts with the sniffles...

Tuesday night I sat at home trying to wind down from work and it starts.  That linger in the back of the nose, where you know you're having to breathe through your mouth a little more than your nose.

You start sneezing once or twice, and you know you've not been near any pepper or perfume.

Then the next day, the one or two sneezes become a dozen or so before your shift at work is done.  You're driving home and your eyes water and you're thinking you better get home quick before you become a Traffic Accident Commission advertisement.

Then the Thursday, you're sick and you're not able to go to work as much as you want to.  But then, for one and four Australians like me, a bigger piece of a challenge is happening.

You start to get anxious.

Monday, April 29, 2013

It's all happening at the 'G

The MCG is a place that I love, but it's something that I could never attend at my heaviest.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Do what makes you happy

Motivation is tough work.  Drawing energy from all the right places to take steps forward can be hard core when you're in a place of uncommitted comfortableness.  So, is there are a problem in being too comfortable?

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Out of the rut and onto the next stage

I've been quiet for a few weeks now.  To be honest with you, I've been caught in a rut.  I've hit that infamous plateau that my surgery brings with it and I'm fearful of old behaviours becoming back to haunt me.

So I've been quiet.  Until now.  Now, it's time to move.


Monday, December 31, 2012

The Book is called Opportunity...

Happy New Year everyone.

I'm ending 2012 the way I started it.  In peace... well 2012 started with me being very unwell and in hospital with a fever, but it had dissipated before the turn of the year.  Tonight, I just wanted to be in my own peace and reflect on the year that it was and just take a break from the world for a night.

So I did, and I find myself back to a familiar place - blogging about the year that it was and being grateful for the opportunity to share the year it has been.  So how has it been?  One word I suppose, as much as it has a negative connotation, I say it with the intent of sharing a year of learning and discovery.

2012 has been for me, in a word, bittersweet.

 

Fridge Pickers wear Bigger Knickers

Sometimes, when you make the choices to change your life, you've got to have a laugh along the way. Losing weight has always reminded me of the quote "Fridge Pickers wear bigger knickers"... so this is something that reminds me to not take certain parts of this journey too seriously.

Why I love Dr Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 376

Attitude of Gratitude

I will always be thankful to the love, support and compassion that has come from family and friends. You have helped me to be where I am today. Forever grateful, forever adoring you all.