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This Blog is designed to promote conversation between members of the Bariatric WLS Community, including patients, medical professionals, and bariatric products and services providers. Your thoughts and experiences are valuable to others trying to live their WLS Lifestyle and Journey. Click on the Log In / Sign Up button so that you can begin commenting and sharing with our authors and readers.
Rocky in a Fat Suit
In 1997 Sylvester Stallone starred in the movie Copland. It caused a stir as Stallone gained over 40 pounds to play an out-of-shape cop....
Bryan Krahn
Aug 14, 20223 min read
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WLS vs A WLS Lifestyle
WLS is NOT the reason I’ve lost weight (244 pounds) and kept it off for 12 years. WLS was an event. It was something that occurred 12...
Bill Streetman
Aug 13, 20222 min read
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Hello, My Name is Bill, I am an Obese Person.
I contend that if Obesity is in fact a disease – and I believe it is – then you are not free of the disease simply because you have...
Bill Streetman
Aug 5, 20222 min read
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Meet Laura Van Tuyl - CEO of the Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America
Laura Van Tuyl has not only been a member of the WLSFA board of directors for the past eleven years, she is also the President and CEO of...
Bill Streetman
Aug 2, 20223 min read
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A Servants Heart
FORWARD: Barb G. Begy Lee, a Weight Loss Surgery friend from Canada, has been sharing her, now eight-year, WLS Journey with people from...
Barb Begy Lee
Dec 13, 202110 min read
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Living My Best Life
I never in a million years thought that I’d ever be a candidate for weight loss surgery. The first half of my life enabled me to eat all...
Robin Washington
Mar 26, 20205 min read
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Meet Sandi Henderson
Meet Sandi Henderson, member of the Board of Directors for the Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America (WLSFA), co-author of a...
Bill Streetman
Mar 28, 20195 min read
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No Going Back
May 19, 2015 is the day I will never forget. The day I decided to take back my life. The Consideration of WLS Three years before this...
Karina Lopez
Mar 26, 20194 min read
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Consistency Is the Key to Change
As a new year begins, we reflect on where we have been and where we would like to go both physically and emotionally. We remember the...
Renee Juckem
Feb 26, 20197 min read
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Healing Through Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy
Being born at a little over 4 pounds, one would have doubted that my actions later in my life would have caused such pain and anguish....
Dee Bermudez
Feb 19, 20197 min read
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It Was Never Enough...
As we enter into a new year, I have been reflecting on my life, my accomplishments and failures. One of my accomplishments was being able...
Kevin Stephens
Jan 12, 20195 min read
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Being Complacent Doesn’t Support My Healthy Lifestyle
One dictionary definition of complacent is: Satisfied with the current situation and unconcerned with changing it, often to the point of...
Sandi Henderson
Feb 16, 20183 min read
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How Did You Do It?
When you lose a significant amount of weight, heck when you lose any noticeable amount of weight, people will ask questions. They are not...
Bill Streetman
Jan 26, 20164 min read
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Do I Wish I’d Have had WLS Earlier in Life?
I was recently asked if I wish I had undergone WLS earlier in my life. At age 54, after two decades of trying to manage my weight – and...
Bill Streetman
Aug 10, 20154 min read
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“Am I the same person I was before I lost weight?”
“Am I the same person I was before I lost weight?” Many people who have achieved significant weight loss ask this question. I’m one of...
Bill Streetman
Nov 14, 201411 min read
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