WARNING AND DISCLAIMER: This post contains excess skin and medical photos. If you do not like less than aesthetically pleasing photos then this blog entry isn’t for you today. So I finished my last blog post as I head off to the hospital for the big chop chop. I got there at 1pm to be
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It’s D-day!! I can honestly say the last 31 days have been amazing, challenging and rewarding all at the same time. I have committed to maintaining a high focus and high intensity to get me in the best possible place and ready for my apronectomy. I committed to 3 meals and 3 snacks a day
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It has been more than a long time between my When Holly Met Percy official blog posts. While being daily active on both my Facebook and Instagram platforms, I haven’t actually done a blog post and well frankly that has been a lot going on in the last few months. My last blog post was
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Today has been a good day. Actually strike that…..today has been a GREAT day!! I don’t know what has happened but something has happened overnight and I have had this mysterious mental switch go off in my head. My day started off like any other Thursday morning, super early morning alarm to get to the
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Today I had my regular appointment with Marg, my life coach through Lilian’s surgical program and it couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. With the emotional drain of yesterday it was topped off ‘nicely’ by Master 6 coming down with a sickness and decided to be awake from 1.30-6am very distressed and in
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10 May is ALWAYS an emotionally charged day for me as it’s the anniversary of my brothers car accident where 23 years ago today we sadly lost my older brother. This is us in 1983 together! Historically this day every year I resort to survival through food to eat my way through my grief and
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I have been a little quite on the “When Holly Met Percy” blog front lately so thought that it timely that in check on my progress and where my head is at. So let’s start with the numbers. There has been 4 weekly weigh in since my last post being losses of 0.3kg, 0.4kg, 0.6kg
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White Choc Macadamia Protein Cookies Makes: 15 cookies Ingredients: 200g cashew butter 2 scoops (60g) vanilla protein powder 1 egg 1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts 1/2 cup white chocolate chips 2 tablespoons high protein milk Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line a tray with baking paper Place all ingredients except the
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Yesterday was a big day for me. I didn’t just celebrate a little win. I celebrated a gigantic non scale victory and achieved one of my goals that I set out for myself. One of my main goals as a part of my reasoning for having WLS was to be an active and participating parent
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One word I hear talked about very often within my social media networks for not only those within the weight loss surgery community but just in general has been bothering me for some reason. This one word is also a word that I personally use regularly and regularly suffer from this awful feeling…….. “GUILT” As
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