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This website is dedicated to helping people suffering from obesity deal with the choices and changes of Weight Loss Surgery through newsletters, personal experience, resource links, as well as individual and group coaching and support.
Welcome to my story about overcoming morbid obesity through
Weight Loss Surgery!
I’ve been where you are,
or where you’ve been. I’ve used the powerful tool of Weight
Loss Surgery (WLS) to re-create my body and life, and I’m now
enjoying a priceless Second Chance at living a long and healthful life. I created this website to share information, resources, and my assistance,
experience, challenges, hope and successes with others who are either
considering this procedure, or are recovering from and coping with
its aftermath.
 As
far back as I can remember, my weight had always been the single
most defining, limiting, painful and self-destructive issue in my life.
Slightly obese as an adolescent, my body mass continued to multiply
until, at age 55, I weighed 360 pounds, was an insulin-dependent
diabetic, and suffered from obstructive sleep apnea. My morbidly obese body was
wracked with daily pain, and my spirit was burdened and tormented by
daily exclusions and humiliations.
My choice to have this admittedly drastic procedure was
a positive and life-affirming choice for me. I made it for all of
the right reasons.
Not to look good, or to avoid other people’s negative judgments
about me, or even to be more comfortable in my body – although
these are all magnificent blessings I’ve enjoyed as I’ve
lost almost half of my Old Self and found my Whole New Self. I chose WLS so that I could stay alive for the people and the life work that are important to me. I hope that those are some of the reasons that you’re considering, or have had, WLS.
Today, one year after my surgery, I am at my goal weight! I weigh less
than 200 pounds for the first time in my adult life. I have
lost more than 160 pounds and shed my corpulent mass, my diabetes,
my sleep apnea,
my lethargy, my despair and my shame. My BMI, originally way over 50,
is now under 30. I am no longer considered obese.
Every day I either walk several miles, vigorously and uphill, or engage
in resistance weight training. I look and feel great, I wear “Large” size
clothes (down from 4X) bought off the rack, and my energy and life
force have multiplied exponentially. After my recent physical
exam, my doctor reported that I am of “normal size and great health” for
the first time I can ever remember. My body, spirit and life have been
transformed through my diligent and effective use of this incredible
tool of WLS — and this precious gift of a fully functional appetite
regulator. I thank my Higher Power every day for my second chance at
good health and a long life. These outcomes are truly miraculous!
I also honor and acknowledge myself every day for the commitment, strength
and courage it has taken me to achieve my goals and my new vitality,
health, body and lifestyle. My recovery and path have not been
easy, and I still struggle with the severe limitations I experience with
respect to both the amount and variety of foods I can comfortably consume.
On balance, however, having Weight Loss Surgery has been an
unequivocal blessing, and it was one of the smartest and best choices
I’ve
ever made.
When I created my website and started writing my newsletters – right
after I decided to have the surgery and about four months before my
operation — I had two positive intentions. The first was selfless
— to share my experience, trials, encouragement and hope
with others journeying on the same path. The second was quite selfish — to
reinforce my commitment, and to avoid sabotaging myself the way I had for several
decades of compulsive overeating, obsessive dieting, gluttony, and
self-blame and shame. I figured that by “going public” with
my decision and my progress, I would gain a valuable and powerful tool
that would help me avoid the humiliation, defeat and disaster of backsliding
and failing yet again. Both intentions have been realized.
When I started on this path, however, I had no idea of the
ways that my life would be changed and improved by the dialogue my website and
newsletters have created with thousands of extraordinarily brave and
powerful people throughout the world. I had no idea that I
would be both joining, and helping to build, a dynamic “virtual community” of
people with common objectives, concerns and experiences. This past
year of deep, honest and authentic sharing of myself with others, and
learning from them, has helped me to feel part of a community of special
souls who can understand my feelings, experiences and challenges like
no one else in my life had ever understood. I can’t overstate
how much it has meant to me – and how much it has helped me to
achieve my WLS goals – to be part of this vibrant community of
sensitized, open, caring and loving people.
You are now cordially invited to join this community. Elsewhere on
this site I have shared information and links about my lifelong struggle
with my obesity, my journey to and from my Weight Loss Surgery, my
life work, my coaching and support services, and helpful links to other
resources. I have also created a series of newsletters – Through
Thick and Thin – in which I share from my heart about my
path to and after my bariatric surgery.
I encourage you to click here to automatically receive
each issue of my free newsletters, which track my preparations for
the surgery, my recovery and my coping with the dramatic challenges
it has posed and lifestyle changes it has required. Most of
all, I hope that this website, and my story and path, will help you
to decide
whether this procedure is right for you and to find and follow your
own path to health, longevity, happiness and fulfillment of your purpose
in this life.
Now that I have walked my talk and achieved my WLS goals, I am offering my professional services to the WLS community by providing individual, one-on-one telephone coaching, and by facilitating and coaching “WLS Virtual Support Groups” through telephone conference calls. My two- or four-week group, "Making the Choice, is specially designed to help people make the difficult decision whether or not Weight Loss Surgery is the right choice for them. My six- or twelve-week group, "Pre-Op Prep", helps people who have decided to have the surgery do everything they can to prepare for their surgery and improve their chances to successfully use this tool. I will also offer groups for special populations with special needs or issues, such as men, teens, and patients in post-op recovery. For more details about these services, my credentials and groups, just click on the links in the left-hand navigation column.
Thanks for visiting my website. I sincerely hope that you find what
you’re looking for in these pages. I welcome your questions,
ideas, comments and feedback. We’re in this together, my Brothers
and Sisters of the Scale. I will look forward to our dialogue.
Glenn Goldberg, J.D., R.C.
Click here if you have a “fruit and vegetable problem” to see if my solution (see Through Thick and Thin #19) will work for you.
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