Sharon B.

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Over the past few months I have discovered a new and better way of eating. You see the thing with weightloss surgery is that it only works if you learn how to change your eating habits. WLS is a great tool but it will not cure eating habits and the weight will return if we do not address the cause of our addition to food. I know, i had the DS and still gained back 60lbs before i caught myself and decided to finally conquer my eating habits. I refused to have had this surgery almost died and had several more surgeries and still be fat! i simply couuld not acept that! So i set of to reserch my eating habits. first i started writing down everything i was eating, and i found that i was eating wayyy more than i realized. Counting calories became a must for me. Yet i was still gaining weight even then. So i started researching exactly what the food i was eating was doing to my body. i found out that bread for one is like glue in my body it sticks! Never moves and that's not good. chesee and eggs do mostly the same. And surger calls on the pounds like no other. So i decided to change my eating habits. I decided to eat more live foods and less dead food. The minute i went raw food eating i began to drop the pounds! Not in weeks but in days!

I am writing because i understand  regained  weight.  Well guess what I have regained some weight too about 60lbs. I have done well with the Ds as a weightloss tool but what i failed to do was change my eating habits. Weightloss surgery alone will not cure obesity as i have found out myself. So i really don't encourage having more surgery.

 However i do encourge examination of  the eating habits. What i have discovered is that i have to find a  way to eat less and exercise more. Because without exercise and less suger intake weightloss surgery will soon fail. It is only a tool that helps the process it will not cure the process. Lately i have decided to venture out into the research of the foods i eat and i have found that the foods I eat are making me fat. I know this because as soon as i decided to change my eating habits and do some daily walking for exercise the weight began to drop off again! Over the past few months i have been on a raw food adventure. i encourage you to do some reserch into this way of eating and see if it will also help you. i  know it will so i am going to direct you to some websites that can help with the process.

Please do this for yourself you owe it to yourself to try to change your eating habits before cutting yourself again. The DS is a very dramatic and dangerous surgery. if i had found raw food eating before surgery i would not have had the surgery/because without changing your eating habits the surgery will eventually fail. So please do some research on these websites before you decide to have the surgery, take it form someone who has tried both, and they both work but changing the way you view food and exercise will prolong your life.

so check o ut these websites
http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/before_after/index.html
http://www.rawfoodbootcamp.com/index.php
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/
http://www.rawschool.com/
http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/before_after/index.html

In one month i lost 15lbs. and I feel better than ever and still loosing.Raw food living really works!

Happy new year to everyone, hope you all have a wonderful 2008:) (((hugs))) and smooches:)

ok If this gets any better i am going to scream. Here i am 6 yrs out and starting to loss weight again. I think it is because i cut out the sugar and began exercising a little. But I have gone down 5 more pounds! wow! I think that is amazing:) Im smiling for sure.

I just realized that I released( not lost because if i lost it I could eventually find it and i dont want to find it so I released it) some weight this week. 10lbs!! 

This comes after I gave up my morning coffee with 2 scoops of sugar. And cut down on some dairy products like cheese which I love!! But I put my jeans on this morning and there was a noticable difference. hummm maybe i am in the releasing  stage again yay!!

Now I really do all the things I use to dream about. I designed the cover of my new book. "Without Medication". And now i am excitedly awaiting  for it to hit stores next month.!


Without Medication is urban fiction, based on a true story and the names have been changed to protect the guilty, while enlightening the innocent.
Without Medication tells the story of Jasmine, a woman of color growing up in the Deep South during the turn of the civil rights movement. Through the story Jasmine re-lives events in her life with narrative strategies, triggered by flash backs and unexplained black outs. She is on a journey through time trying to find herself and goes on to label herself as what she called ‘Dis-social-para-pressionistic‘, which also at some point in time turned her into a perfectionistic control freak. Jasmine finds that she struggles with multiple personality disorder, and strives to overcome her haunting memories of child abuse, and racial oppression, while at the same time trying to win the affection and approval of her step mother Eden.
Along her journal for success and wholeness, Jasmine dedicates her life to helping others with similar disorders. As time goes on the plot thickens as she searches to find true love and wholeness. She eventual becomes successful in her life and love. Overcoming her personality disorder without the use of any treatment or "without medication", and she ends up not only winning the approval of her step mother, but she also becomes her legal guardian and caregiver when Eden is stricken with Alzheimer’s disease in her later years. As Jasmine searches for destiny, and approval she eventfully finds her own true voice in life.
Without Medication will be available in bookstores in the US and the UK around March/April 2007 so stay tuned for more updates.

ISBN-10: 1432703757

ISBN-13: 9781432703752

Paperback: $13.95 US Dollars

Hardback: $18.95 US Dollars

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well I am coming up on 6 yrs sense i had my surgery and it is still the best thing i ever did for myself.  At one point the doc. thought i would become too small so he encouraged me to eat more. and I have gained about 40lbs over the past 6 yrs, (didn't do much exercise)..

yet I still continue to loose inbetween as well. It is strange, but now food is not the most important thing in my life. I almost have to make myself eat, and I still get full after only a few bites. I can eat one plate all day. I drink more water than i ever have before. and I feel better too.

One thing i would advise now postops is to remember the fat cells never go away, they are always looking for something to fill them up again. enjoy the ride.(smiles)