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WLSFA 2012 Grant Recipient And Thanks For Making Me Cry

This is why we raised money for the WLSFA by attending the event.  This is our reminder.  

Mandy.

PS.  I'm sorry you are crying now.  xo

SML BEhealthydrinks Bariatric Eating's New Home? Still a fail. Shame.

Behealthydrinks focuses on top quality protein drinks and easy blending powders. Pure quality, whey protein isolate, with natural ingredients. All our products are are regularly tested for purity and manufactured in GMP certified and organic facilities...

Except - they do not ship your purchases.  Who really gives a fuck WHERE it comes from?  I KNOW where it comes from and I can SELL THE SAME PRODUCT TO YOU.

But, you'd get it.  I'm not that nice right now.

Do not be fooled by the "new" names and "new" store front.  This is the same company as Bariatric Eating, which has left hundreds of customers hanging.

The only communication I have received comes from an employee of BE -- ON FACEBOOK.  There has been zero actual customer-interaction in any way.

Shame on you, Susan Maria Leach.  You could have done SO much with this situation.  

• Previous store - www.bariatriceating.com
• New store - www.behealthydrinks.com
• Facebook - www.facebook.com/bariatriceating
• FL AG -  http://myfloridalegal.com/Contact.nsf/Contact?OpenForm&Section=Economic_Crimes

The time where I started breathing heavy

...because one of my favorite protein snacks has been reincarnated and I am doing this right now -

WLSFA 2012 Las Vegas Event + Photos - MM BBGC Style

It's funny how things change, but things also stay the same. 

Honey, I'm hooooome!

After 24 hours of travel time, a few tears, one near-panic and eight boarding passes, and an additional $1000.00 in travel costs -- we are home!  WE ARE HOME!  We MADE it!  HOORAY!

What you see above is a sampling of the wicked super awesome bestest-ever nicest Bariatric Bad Girls Club members who came to Vegas with me for the Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America Meet and Greet 2012.  What you don't see -- are the 900 others that wanted to be there.  xo  This photo was just before the Friday night hoe-down.  Yee-haw.

As it was said, "I didn't know you liked country music."

Um, YEAH!?

Much more to follow, posts about the event, the vendors, the amazingness, and lots of photos -- I am uploading now.  Tag yourself on Facebook, tag me, tag whatever you want.

#WLSFA2012 We Are ON Our Way With Wellesse! Oh, and YAY!

This time tomorrow, after the longest flights ever and at least two Ativans, Mr. MM and I will be at Bally's Las Vegas for the Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America Meet and Greet! 

This is my third time visiting Las Vegas, as I have been fortunate to attend in 2010 for ASMBS with ObesityHelp.com and Celebrate Vitamins, and in 2011 to represent the Bariatric Bad Girls Club at the last WLSFA Event.  But this is the first time I have been able to bring a Mr. MM to Vegas, AND one of my VIP BBGs!   

Squee.

I will be helping Wellesse promote their line of premium liquid vitamin supplementation in the vendor area - as well as to love on all the vendors including lots of MM blog sponsors!  

Um, BECAUSE YAY VENDORS!  THEY ARE ALL IN ONE PLACE AND OMG OMG OMG, VEGAS AGAIN AND MORE BBGS and OMG YAY!  

Alright.  I'm better now.  Mostly.

Thank-you Wellesse for making it possible to go to Vegas and be with all my WLS pals, so that we can raise some SERIOUS CASH for the WLSFA.

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TRY Wellesse B-12 Fast Absorbing Sublingual Liquid

Wellesse B-12 Fast Absorbing Sublingual Liquid

 Wellesse B-12 Fast Absorbing Sublingual Liquid -

• 1000 mcg
• Calibrated Dropper, Easily Adjusted Dosage
• Natural Berry Flavor
• Naturally Sugar Free with Stevia
• Gluten Free

B12 is an essential B Vitamin that plays a role in the entire nervous system, promotes energy metabolism and supports healthy heart function. B12 is a key contributor to the body's proper use of iron. B12 becomes increasingly important with age with risk of decreased absorption which can lead to deficiencies in both B12 and Folic Acid.

The ASMBS  (2010) explains that after gastric bypass surgery vitamin B12 deficiency may result in consequence of food no longer coming in contact with gastric intrinsic factor. Vitamin D and calcium absorption may also be reduced since the duodenum and proximal jejunum, which are the preferential sites of absorption, are bypassed by this procedure. Also, life long supplements of multivitamins, vitamin B12 iron and calcium are mandatory following this procedure.

I'm not a professional, I'm just a patient, but I understand it as this:  The biggest problem is that gastric bypass patients no longer have the abilty to absorb the B12 from food due to the lack of acid in the new stomach pouch.  Our bodies have some B12 stored away, but it can run out and leave us with a deficiency.

B12 deficiency can cause pernicious anemia.  You don't want this, the effects of pernicious anemia can be life-long if you do not catch it in time.

 

 

Via - Bariatric Times, May 2010

You need to take your B12.  Surgeons and nutritionists often recommend a sublingual B12 product, because it's one of the best ways to get the vitamin into your system, and sometimes post-ops need injections of B12 if the oral route is not sufficient.

B12 is also known to give you energy -- it's found in energy drinks and other products to help give you a BOOST.  Or wings?

Wellesse's Sublingual B-12 comes in a  2 ounce bottle, with 60 doses of 1000 mcgs of B-12, or 16,667% of the good stuff.  The extra 16,567% is for good measure.

The product label -

I shook up the bottle, peeled off the outerwrapping, and sucked out a dose of the B12 with the attached dropper.  For the purposes of the review, I played with the product first, because that's what I do.  I sniff, play and take photos.  The liquid is bright red, clear and has a touch of thickness to it.   While the cover was off, I sniffed the product, which smells like a berry based fruit punch.

Perfect.  Unless you do what I just did to it.  "Mama, can I paint wis your vitamins now?"

 

• Product - Wellesse B-12 Fast Absorbing Sublingual Liquid
• Via - Wellesse
• Price -  $9.99 or .17 cents per dose for 60 days!
• Coupon - Click on the COUPON tab while you're there to find a $2.00 off coupon!
• Pros - 1000 mcg of B12 per ml, sugar-free, lightly sweetened with Stevia + Erythritol, simple to take, tastes great, relatively inexpensive...
• Cons -  The five year old wants to paint with it.  The 5th grader in me wants to crack inappropriate jokes.
• Rating - Pouchworthy, ^MM

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More about B12 at these links -

• http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb12/
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001595/
• http://bariatrictimes.epubxpress.com/link/BT/2011/may/1?s=0
• http://www.anemia.org/professionals/feature-articles/content.php?contentid=438&sectionid=15

 

 

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Bariatric Surgery = increased likelihood of ALCOHOLISM.

Timely, as nearly one thousand of us descend upon Las Vegas today through the weekend for a weight loss surgery related event.

I am already seeing the alcohol posts on Facebook IN. THE. AIRPORTS.

Hello, my name is Beth, and I don't have a problem with alcohol (...and I thank my lucky stars every single day...) however, I AM SURROUNDED BY ALCOHOLICS AND OTHER ADDICTS POST WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY.

In full, from Medscape -

May 15, 2012 (Lyon, France) — Bariatric surgery is associated with an increased likelihood that patients will report and be diagnosed with problems related to alcohol consumption. Different levels of risk are associated with different gastric surgery procedures, Per-Arne Svensson, PhD, from the Sahlgrenska Center for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, reported here at the 19th European Congress on Obesity.

Bariatric Immunity Dated For Freshness

I just stumbled on a super old "what did you eat today"-type post of my own while looking for a protein bar review.  It shocks me to see how I ate at former stages of this journey.  I remember my thoughts back then, about how I thought I was eating too many calories.  Or even how random people would tell me how I was doing it wrong.

My first thought now is --