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Sunday May 19, 2013

Educational Stories

  • Holy cr@p! I'm losing too fast preop!

    Friday, February 1, 2013 | An Educational story

    It was a week ago today that I first saw my surgeon and met my dietician. We set a goal then for me to use the next two months to stop drinking soda (not a big deal anyway...) and to start reducing the amount of fruit I eat in preparation for the liver reduction diet I'll start in three months.
    I had to call the dietician this morning because I'm losing weight too quickly! I've lost three pound...

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  • Simple Habits For Beautiful Skin

    Thursday, February 14, 2013 | An Educational story

    Most of us really care about our skin and we want to make sure that we look as healthy and vibrant as possible. In reality, it's more about getting into a routine and following some habits for healthy skin instead of doing anything special and out of the ordinary. If you would like to improve the looks of your skin, here are a few habits for you to get started and if you follow them regularly, yo...

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  • Lesson learned: don't fall behind on the food log!!

    Friday, February 22, 2013 | An Educational story

    Work has been busy.... REALLY busy. And with the opportunity to work extra (including some night shift hours :/ ) I fell a day and a half behind on my food log. To which I say this:
    Never. Again.
    I kept up with entering my exercise but I guess I figured I'd just remember tonight's dinner and chart it when I had breakfast in the morning. And then I apparently got busy in the morning and before ...

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  • Life-long Dream

    Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | An Educational story

    All my life, I've wanted to go to college and become a pathologist. I love forensics and started my career in 1997 fresh out of high school by going for my A.S. in Crime Scene Technology. I absolutely LOVED my courses. They were so fascinating and rewarding that I couldn't get enough of them. However, I have dyscalcula, a form of dyslexia with numbers, so I flunked out of Intermediate Math 3 time...

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