I recently got home from the Obesity Action Coalition’s 8th Annual Your Weight Matters national convention, this year held in Tampa Bay, where the OAC is headquartered. There’s a lot of great offerings included with the base registration, but there’s...
A quick introduction to myself, why I’m doing this podcast, and what I hope to share by doing it.
A recent Blue Bloods episode on CBS used weight bias and shaming to get a win for it’s lead character. Why I’m not as upset as I first was, and how they could fix it…
Everything old is new again, including no-knead bread making. I have a work-in-progress recipe that I’ve been building on for awhile now, and share my thoughts, tips and techniques to this very easy way of making your own dough for bread, rolls, pizza crust and more.
There is one recurring … fear and frustration that dogs many people who have had bariatric surgery (aka weight loss surgery). I’ve heard it from patients online, in various support groups I’ve attended/facilitated/led, as well as while at various obesity related events. It’s this perception that using surgery to get to a healthier weight is “taking the easy way out”.
One of the things you hear from all sorts of folks involved in the world of bariatrics is that support is crucial. From the group and online aspects to programs such as Weight Watchers to the various support groups offered...
Divorce after significant weight loss, in particular with bariatric surgery, is a topic I hear come up fairly often during support groups and in online forums. When it does, time and again a divorce rate of 80-85% keeps popping up....
Deception Pass, an area that got it’s name from Captain George Vancouver in 1792, was today’s destination. The trip ended up a couple miles shorter than the originally planned 9 miles because we just got too swept up in all...
Today Bonnie and I joined the folks from the Mountain View Hiking Group for a trip up to Hurricaine Ridge near Port Angeles on the North side of the Olympic National Park. We had cloudy skies all the way up,...
From Feb 24th, this was an outing with a small group, with a 10 mile trip planned. Even though the days are getting longer, they’re still pretty short, so we left early enough to get back to the trailhead well...
