Gastric Bypass on Shine

Body of Work: I got weight-loss surgery but you shouldn't

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A very best friend of mine was recently diagnosed by her doctor as being fat. She had gone in for a pain in her hip and came out with an order to go on the South Beach Diet and lose 6 pounds this month. It sounded to me exactly like bull ----- , exactly like what you hear doctors doing all the time, being blinded by their patient's weight and assuming that all their problems, every one of them from the mental to the physical, all trace directly back to their weight. And it made me angry to hear how upset she was, on the phone. How she felt unwieldy, unlovely, unlovable.

Thanks but no thanks: New weight-loss surgery on the horizon

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I have a trick vagus nerve that, when spooked, causes me to faint like one of those pygmy goats. I've fainted from laughing, hiccuping, swallowing an Advil Liqui-Gel, taking a drink of very carbonated soda, and also, from sitting in the front row of a very loud concert (I don't even know...

Overweight? Surgery is not your only option

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I’m just back from a trip to Cleveland, Ohio where Prevention held a one day festival called Health for Good at the gorgeous Cleveland Botanical Gardens. Our fitness expert (and my fellow blogger) Chis Freytag started the day with an outdoor morning stretch, and the day’s activities included...