ANNOUNCEMENT - Your help is requested.

Some of you may know that I have had another blog that I started repeatedly and then stopped after one or two blog posts.  Last December I decided to make a recipe blog and just like before I made a few posts and then abandoned it.

I have decided to renew that blog and connect it to this blog.  If you look on the menu bar you will find a LRTF Recipe link.  This takes you to the recipe blog and over at the recipe blog there is a link to bring you back.

I don't intend for the recipe part to consist of only bariatric recipes.  Right now there are quite a bit there because that is my focus.  But here is where I need your help.  I need you to send me recipes that you like if you would.  You will receive credit for your recipe and if you include a picture you took of the dish,  I will place your name as a watermark on the picture.

Submit your recipes by dropping me an email.  Thanks for your help!!

Connie

It's not as simple as it looks

To a person on the outside it seems simple.  You have your stomach cut out, or your intestines re-routed and you eat less therefore you loose weight.  Life is then good, right?

WRONG.  So very wrong.  You don't just go about your merry way eating what you want and dropping poundage.  There is actually hard work put into this.  Examining nutritional values of EVERYTHING you put in your mouth takes time and dedication.  Going out to eat at a restaurant that doesn't have a nutritional menu means you have a lot of things to remember and examine the description and try your best to make a good nutritional choices.  The one thing people, including those that have the surgery, forget or don't realize is the way this surgery affects the psyche of those who have it.

Is that REALLY support. Rant alert!!

Sometimes when I see something wrong, I just have to speak up.  I get hurt at times for doing that.  I've stood up for friends and taken a lot of flack only to have them eventually turn their back on me.  Ive helped people to have them use me and then disappear from my life.  Usually when that happens it's for the better even if they end up owing me money.  I hold strong to my convictions and rarely do I change.  Not that I won't because I have.  Not that I won't listen to the other side, because I do.  One time I was told "I don't care who you are, President of the U.S. or a bum on the street corner; right is right and wrong is wrong."  That is the reason for this post.

You are *gasp* morbidly obese

A group of friends and I went on a girls trip to Galveston Texas.  We had a really good time, lots of good food and drink.  Then I saw the pictures taken.  I was so ashamed at how my body looked.  It was round, really round like a big beach ball.  No wonder I have hip and back issues.  I am a freaking beach ball with legs.  I realized I had to do something about this.