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 pain then eventually passing out […]
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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 my heightened emotions. Not today…… […]
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Pumpkin & Feta Sausage Rolls Makes: 20 portions (2 pieces for portion) Ingredients: 5 mountain bread wraps 800g pumpkin 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1 onion, finely diced 2/3 cup frozen peas 2/3 cup frozen corn kernels 2/3 cup breadcrumbs 2 scoops (60g) pure protein powder 1 egg 200 feta cheese, crumbled Method: Peel […]
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Hedgehog Protein Cookies Makes: 18 cookies Ingredients: 200g smooth peanut butter 2 scoops (60g) chocolate protein powder 1 tablespoon cacao powder 1 egg 1/4 cup high protein milk 1/2 cup sugar free dark choc chips 1/2 cup chopped walnuts Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line a tray with baking paper Place all ingredients into a large […]
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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 and a gain of 0.2kg […]
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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 as opposed to watching on […]
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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 my regular readers would know […]
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I generally try to keep my posts uplifting, positive and inspiring….today is not one of those posts. Today is all about realness! To start with I will get the statistics out of the way. At Wednesday’s weigh in this week This week – 1.1kg Total – 90kg 90-freaking-kg LOST. Wow just wow….I can’t even fathom! So coming to the realness […]
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So once again it’s been a while between WHMP blog posts so thought I would touch base and update the exciting things that have been happening. In my last post I did I was in the middle of attending well being and resilience training for work. It was an interesting couple of day but has made me reflect which I […]
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So today and tomorrow I am attending resilience and wellbeing training for work. The one thing that resonated the most with me throughout my first day was the section where we spent talking about cultivating gratitude. I think this sat close to home as over the last 15 months I have been on a journey of not only weight loss […]
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