An Introduction To Diabetes

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

People With Disabilities & Surgery Recipients Now Have An Option For Specialized Yet FASHIONABLE Clothing

Read all about it here folks.

The company's website is here

The Keys To Sleep Issues

Our Buddy Sean Croxton over at Underground Wellness does it again.

This time, he hits the nail right on the head by targeting the very things which can lead up to sleep apnea & diabetes as well as weight gain. GREAT JOB SEAN.

Talk About An IDIOT.....

Does anyone....

A) Have a clue as what the fuck this moron is even talking about

B) Think this moron must've somehow FAILED the subject of MATH (Especially the part that relates to measuring weight)

Or is it all just me & my imagination?

The EXPOSED Secret Ingredients Behind KFC’s Grilled Chicken (The Ones KFC DOES NOT Want You To See Nor Hear About)

We’ve all seen the bucket, right?  Well now it’s time we see & hear about THE INGREDIENTS that make up KFC’s new Grilled Chicken & the 11 herbs & spices which are claimed to be used, but are apparently so secret that the entire recipe is protected from copycats.

Well now, thanks to my newly found friend over at Underground Wellness, WE ARE ABOUT TO EXPOSE THAT…..

Don't believe him? Check out the ingredients (Adobe Acrobat Reader File) & see for yourself.

Add to that the Nutrition Information & it's just all the more UNBELIEVABLE that KFC has the AUDACITY to call what they are serving up to be actually "nutritious" & worthy of eating.

As a Lap Band recipeint, I can tell you that BOTH of my surgeon's in-house nutritionalists would CRINGE at THE MERE THOUGHT of me trying some of this chicken.

Next time I get an irresistable craving for chicken, SOMEONE out there PLEASE talk me into going SOMEPLACE ELSE - Like Church's Chicken perhaps?

I say this because it's a SCARY thought to imagine that the words that make up those infamous 11 herbs & spices might actually consist of ELEVEN SYLLABLES in each of them in order to prounounce them.

Episode 010 - Simple Meals For Bariatric Dummies - Part One - BREAKFAST (Sub-Part Two - Waffles & Apricot Halves)

FEATURED
Waffles & Apricot Halves

INGREDIENTS
* 2 Waffles (You can use as many as you want)
* 1 small can of Apricot Halves

DIRECTIONS
* Place waffles in toaster & toast to your taste

* While waffles are heating up in the toaster, open the can of apricot halves

* Once waffles are done, place on plate

* Next add apricot halves WITH AS LITTLE JUICE AS POSSIBLE & ENJOY!!!

Can be used with other fruits as well
Makes a place of 2 waffles with six apricot halves

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Trackback To Another Great Looking Waffle Recipe

Episode 09 - Simple Meals For Bariatric Dummies - Part One - LUNCH (Sub-Part One - Toasted Melted Cheese Sandwich)

FEATURED Toasted Melted Cheese Sandwich.

INGREDIENTS
* 4 Slices Of DOUBLE FIBER Wheat Bread
2 Slices Of Cheese

DIRECTIONS
* Place 2 of the 4 slices of bread into a toaster (If you have a 4-slice toaster, you may place all 4 slices in the toaster)

* Once bread is toasted, place bread on microwave safe plate & place cheese on top DO NOT PLACE THE OTHER TWO SLICES OF TOAST ON TOP (Doing so will impede the melting process)

Place plate with toast & cheese on top in microwave & microwave on HIGH for 2 minutes or until cheese is melted

Once the cheese is melted, place the other two slices of toast on top & ENJOY!!

Makes 2 sandwiches

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Episode 08 - Simple Meals For Bariatric Dummies - Part One - BREAKFAST (Sub-Part One - Burrito-Type Foods)

FEATURED An examination as to the number of NUTRITIOUS Breakfast Burrito foods which are available. On demonstration here is the Sausage, Egg & Cheese Hot Pocket.

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We Welcome Some New Friends To The AMWLWT Family

Our list of like-minded weight loss bloggers is growing as we welcome our friends from PouchFriendly.com & Geneve from Geneve's Kitchen

Here are sample videos from each site.  You will find permalinks to the actual recipe below so you can go to each site & print out each recipe for yourself.

First, a little Taco Soup, courtesy of our friends from PouchFriendly.com......

You can find this recipe on the site here for printing. But now you're gonna wanna have some Tortilla Chips to go with that soup. But unless you want or like to put them in the soup like crackers, you're gonna want some Guacamole Dip. Here's a GREAT looking recipe, courtesy of our new friend Geneve from Geneve's Kitchen (BEWARE - VIDEO EMBEDDED!!)

Does that look good OR WHAT?!?!?

You can print that recipe from the same page on Geneve's site

So that about wraps it up this time around.  Lemme know what you think.

Laters :)

Episode 07 - General Update & Report On My Left Foot

FEATURED

An update on my progress to this point & a prelude to my upcoming First Anniversary Post-Op video.  Plus a look at the condition of my left foot.


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The ULTIMATE Weapon For The Average Grocery Inflation Fighter & Weight Loser

Just when all hope of economical stimulation seemed to be lost along comes the ULTIMATE weapon against inflation in big chain grocery stores.

I heard about this chain while watching this segment in last night's ABC News Nightline newscast. 

This story reminded me of a low-cost, no-frills chain that's just up the street from where I live (I can't think of the name offhand, but I know it's not the one featured in last night's segment).

Now aside from the political & economical "advantages" as it were (Which you can see in this post (Permalink URL) on my political blog), there are MANY advantages for those of us who are trying to lose weight as well.

First & foremost, it's a low-cost, no-frills grocery chain.  This means MORE $$$ IN YOUR POCKET TO $$$PEND ON WEIGHT LOSS ITEMS.

Secondly, you don't pay for ammenities such as a Deli, a Pharmacy, a Bakery Department, a Floral Department or a specialized Meat Department.  EVERYTHING like that is all pre-packaged WYSIWYG stuff (Except the Pharmacy as that doesn't exist beyond the OTC stuff).

The whole segment reminded me of the way the big grocery store chains operated back in the early to mid-1970s.  Simple & basic.  None of the fancy-schmancy fluff you see in grocery stores nowadays.  In fact, it looks to be more like the membership warehouses (Of which I will provide links to) than anything.

The only difference is the chain, unlike the big membership warehouses, don't sell their items in bulk nor did the article mention anything about them selling stuff in wholesale rather than retail either (Though I could be wrong on that and quite possibly everything else I've said about them so far and therefore will stand most humbly stand corrected if I did in fact make any errors).

I think it's pretty safe to say that if any of the big chains were to operate the way the chain featured in the aforementioned article does, they'd be out of business (Better yet, I think it's even safer to say that the big chains WOULD NOT EVEN **KNOW HOW** to operate like the chain featured in the article does without going out of business).

Well anyway, I just wanted to pass this lil tidbit of info. on to you, my faithful & loyal subscribers, readers, followers, etc. :)

Laters.....

Whole Wheat Waffle Sandwich

INGREDIENTS

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*  Whole Wheat Waffles (The blog features the Kellogg's EGGO brand with Nutri-Grain)

*  Peanut Butter (The blog features the Peter Pan brand)

*  Apples

*  Honey

INSTRUCTIONS

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*  Slice apples till they are thin

*  Toast waffles & spread peanut butter on BOTH sides

*  Apply honey (Be careful of the amount though) & add apple slices

*  Place waffles together & ENJOY

I dunno 'bout you, but this looks MIGHTY GOOD to me. :)

SOURCE - Real World Martha's Weblog

Episode 06 - Update - On-Air Ham Radio Support Nets

FEATURED An update on my current situation, YouTube Groups & an idea of on-air weight loss support nets via Amateur (e.g. Ham) Radio. PLUS Why is there no option to search BY GROUPS on YouTube??

YouTube Groups Referred To:
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YouTube Weight Loss Surgery - Gastric Bypass
YouTube Weight Loss Surgery - General Discussion
YouTube Weight Loss Surgery - Lap Banders
YouTube Weight Loss Surgery - RNY

Episode 05 - The Arrival Of My Health & Wellness Kit

FEATUREDThe arrival of the Health & Wellness Study Kit which I blogged & (I believe) Twittered about arrived earlier this week.

ADDITIONAL LINKS




NEWS ARTICLES ON THE PROGRAM

Article One
Article Two
Article Three

I've Enrolled In A Health & Welless BUT.....

As I indicated in my Twitter Updates, which you can also see to my left, I got a call from some party claiming to be from Medicaid asking if I'd like to be enrolled in a Health and Wellness Nutrition Program. They didn't want any money from me (Which I thought was a little odd), but did ask some questions and offered to send out a kit via FedEx.

But you know what the REALLY odd part of the whole thing was? Medicaid calling me ON THE WEEKEND!!!!

But just for the heck of it, we'll play along with the gag (They needed to send some forms to my both my PCP & Bariatric Surgeon anyway, so they ought to be able to spot what they think might be a fraud case pretty easily) If they actually do deliver on the goods, I'll post a video on my YT channel showing what they sent.

3 Bean Chilli Recipe

Does this look DELICIOUS or what? :)

How The Lap Band System Works

Lap-Band Procedure

For those who are still wondering how it all works, this MySpace TV video gives a detailed description.



CAUTION - No audio.

Online Via Library Only For Awhile (And First Fill Nerves)

As I suspected for a long time now, issues stemming from my surgery which were NOT in any way directly related caused me to lose my Internet access with Qwest (So much for bundling my Internet with cable or, in this case, satellite anymore. Don't even get me started on that! You really don't wanna see me go there).

In any case, I did go in for my first fill. Suffice to say, those of you who said that it wouldn't hurt were right. In addition, they didn't need to do an ultrasound just to find the hole. All Dr. Metz' assistant did was lay me down on the table (I wish they'd use REAL BEDS in those rooms, don't you?) with a pillow under my back. She then had me inhale and then exhale as she put the needle in. After that, she put in the saline.

After that was done, she had me sit up and drink some of my Aquafina to see if it would go down (Afterall if you can't hold filtered water down, what can you hold down?). After some adjustments were made, she then reminded me of the post-fill diet I have to have every time as well as some other nutritional stuff (No she wasn't one of the nutritionalists at CBSI) and then had me make an appointment for my next fill, which will be next month (June 5).

I wanted to do a video of my weigh-in during my first fill, but my cam would only take pictures. If I had thought of it, I'd have snapped a picture and settled for that. But I did do an audio podcast and when I get the chance next week, I'll upload it (I can't upload audio or video from the neighborhood library branch I'm at now, but I can do it from the main library Downtown as long as the file is on a removable storage device such as my iRiver, which I intend to use if it'll let me export video).

Anyway, I anticipate being offline with my PC until at least September HOWEVER I think this will present me with a good opportunity to get a MySpace prescence for my weight loss blog so I can do some real time blogging with my phone (I don't have a Windows-based handset though I'll be sure that the next phone I get will be EVEN IF I have to switch carriers).

Anyway, that's all the news from here. I will get the audio podcast posted and retro-dated next week if at all possible.

Laters...

Online Via Library Only For Awhile (And First Fill Nerves)

As I suspected for a long time now, issues stemming from my surgery which were NOT in any way directly related caused me to lose my Internet access with Qwest (So much for bundling my Internet with cable or, in this case, satellite anymore. Don't even get me started on that! You really don't wanna see me go there).

In any case, I did go in for my first fill. Suffice to say, those of you who said that it wouldn't hurt were right. In addition, they didn't need to do an ultrasound just to find the hole. All Dr. Metz' assistant did was lay me down on the table (I wish they'd use REAL BEDS in those rooms, don't you?) with a pillow under my back. She then had me inhale and then exhale as she put the needle in. After that, she put in the saline.

After that was done, she had me sit up and drink some of my Aquafina to see if it would go down (Afterall if you can't hold filtered water down, what can you hold down?). After some adjustments were made, she then reminded me of the post-fill diet I have to have every time as well as some other nutritional stuff (No she wasn't one of the nutritionalists at CBSI) and then had me make an appointment for my next fill, which will be next month (June 5).

I wanted to do a video of my weigh-in during my first fill, but my cam would only take pictures. If I had thought of it, I'd have snapped a picture and settled for that. But I did do an audio podcast and when I get the chance next week, I'll upload it (I can't upload audio or video from the neighborhood library branch I'm at now, but I can do it from the main library Downtown as long as the file is on a removable storage device such as my iRiver, which I intend to use if it'll let me export video).

Anyway, I anticipate being offline with my PC until at least September HOWEVER I think this will present me with a good opportunity to get a MySpace prescence for my weight loss blog so I can do some real time blogging with my phone (I don't have a Windows-based handset though I'll be sure that the next phone I get will be EVEN IF I have to switch carriers).

Anyway, that's all the news from here. I will get the audio podcast posted and retro-dated next week if at all possible.

Laters...

Episode 03 - What's In MY WHOLE KITCHEN

FEATURED This audio podcast is a spinoff of the YouTube tagged thread called What's In Your Fridge. Only instead of just covering my fridge, I COVERED THE WHOLE FREAKIN' KITCHEN - Cupboards & all

I also include some Nutritional Information that even surprised ME.



To your good health :)



Enjoy.....