Category Archive: Weight Loss

Sep 10 2011

Gastric Sleeve Update

My Weight Loss Chart

A while ago, I wrote about my Gastric Sleeve surgery, and figured it was about time to provide an update.  So 7 months on, and where am I at? While I have had a few gaps in my recording of my weight, you can see as I am approach my target of 195 lbs (88.5 …

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Jun 13 2011

Disappointed

I am a little disappointed in this recent post from CNN.  It really is only giving a narrow view of the subject.  It is suggesting that bariatric surgery does not affect the mortality rate, but when you actually read the article, it indicates it is a fairly narrow study.  It only included about 850 older US male …

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Jun 08 2011

Gastric Sleeve Weight Loss

My Four Months of Weight Loss Chart

On the 10th of February, I had a gastric sleeve, which is a surgery that removes 75-80% of your stomach and essentially turns your stomach into a tube (or “sleeve”).  The belief is that this promotes weight loss through not only restricting the amount of food you eat, but also changing the way your body …

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