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Part One of my journey to undergo weight-loss surgery
-Beth-Ellen Keyes, BettyConfidential.com Much media attention of late has been devoted to Oprah Winfrey's decades-long battle with her weight. Oprah, honey, I…
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I watch House regularly, mostly because I really want to analyze my own (and Cuddy's and Cameron's and Wilson's) co-dependent fascination with emotionally detached men. In last night's episode, the Patient of the Week was a Jillian Michaels-esque infomercial fitness coach who was trying to sell DVDs to The Biggest Loser crowd. During the numerous tests for various exotic conditions that she didn't have, the team was surprised to learn that her stomach was "the size of a shot glass" because she had secretly had gastric bypass surgery. As is the case with House, the big reveal was followed by a commercial break and when we came back, we were treated to her Before picture, with a slumpy, large sweater-wearing fattie. Cue the onslaught of fat jokes from Dr. House, but what transpired is very spoilery, so let's meet up after the jump, ok?
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Some of the side effects of
the duodenal switch procedure for weight loss: it is necessary to
take vitamins for the... Read More »
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Exactly two years ago today,
I woke up in a hospital room to find that the Democrats had taken
the House, and the surgeon had taken a big chunk of my stomach and
a long length of my intestines. I've recovered from the surgery,
but I still haven't entirely recovered from the physical fact of
it--I...
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I get a lot of emails from people, all of them pretty much universally wonderful. Mostly it is kind words, or continuing a conversation I start with a post, or stuff that is too personal to share in the comments, or providing me with very important information that I had previously lacked (most...
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Come November 3rd, It's going
to be two years since I've had weight-loss surgery. I stopped
losing weight close to a year ago now, and I've bounced around the
same three to five pounds for about that time. For the longest, I
waited for the scale to really register some kind of change--it...
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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... Read More »
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You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to be naked in front of someone. Someone who is not my doctor, or my cat, or my beloved. I'd like to stand up, naked, in front of a completely objective person, and ask them exactly what I look like. I don't want them to describe me in sexual... Read More »
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It took me months and months to tell my mother I had gotten weight-loss surgery, and I still regret that. The only reason I emailed her, the morning I was going in, and told her that I had to be operated on, I was okay, I have a stomach ailment, was because my boyfriend at the time told me he... Read More »
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Carnie Wilson was the first celebrity poster girl for weight-loss surgery, dropping half her weight and landing the cover of People way back when. Since then, lots of celebs have gone under the knife, folks like Al Roker, Aretha Franklin, Randy Jackson, Star Jones, Sharon Osbourne, Roseanne, John... Read More »
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