The Path To Wholeness

Weight Loss surgery is about a lifestyle shift which encompasses  a determination to change. It’s as much about setting your intentions as it is about physical compliance.

Change is not easy. We need to prepare ourselves to change. We need to practice, which helps create a willingness to continue.

As President Obama says.

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
 

Weight-loss surgery is a great tool that allows us to lose weight. The purpose of this effective tool is to increase the process of weight loss. However, the central theme is to discover how to maintain that weight loss during this process.

Being set free from Obesity is about learning how to live, not just what to eat, and how to incorporate exercise into your daily life. It’s a change in mindset, one that leads you to discover, what was eating you.

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In The News

Gabourey Sidibe

May 12, 2014

30 year-old actress and former “American Horror Story” star, Gabourey Sidibe recently gave a moving and touching speech on confidence at the Gloria Awards and Gala in New York City. Sidibe revealed the demons she fights each time she puts on a dress – the judgements, the headlines, the comparisons – and the surprise she initially felt when reporters would always be shocked at her confidence. How does ‘she’ get away with looing like that in Hollywood? How can someone like ‘her’ be so confident? Sidibe says, “It’s my good time, and my good life, despite what you think of me. I live my life, because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.”

Gabourey Sidibe

With stars such as Rosie O’Donnell, Star Jones and Randy Jackson speaking candidly about their bariatric surgery, the stigma is slowly fading. Jones had gastric bypass surgery in 2003 but only revealed the truth behind her decision and the procedure in 2007, writing, “The complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me. I was afraid to be vulnerable, and ashamed at not being able to get myself under control without this procedure.” Read more about Jones’ journey, how bariatric surgery helped Jackson manage diabetes and O’Donnell’s weight loss here.

Living an active lifestyle and staying healthy is a lifelong journey with many twists and turns. There are no quick fixes and the reality is very different from what magazines and television shows try to sell. Sadly, “Shape” magazine recently exacerbated this gap between media images and weight loss reality when they refused to publish bikini photos of one woman’s weight loss story because the magazine had a policy to only feature “fully clothed” people for that section.

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