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WeightLossSurgeryCoach.com(formerly GastricByPassCoach.com) |
Information, inspiration, coaching and support for obese people wanting a longer, healthier life through Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) |
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What Coaching Clients and Subscribers Say About Glenn
As one of Glenn's first coaching clients, I can attest to his ability. He was very honest in his approach and gently challenged me in areas where I needed to make changes. His encouragement and sensitive approach to coaching comes out of his own personal history and journey of change. The hard choices he has made in his own life allows Glenn to impact lives in a profound way, offering not only inspiration, but HOPE. He is a changed person who now affects others in healthy and positive ways. He is a delight to talk to and I felt completely safe in being vulnerable to discuss my issues and questions concerning Gastric Bypass Surgery.
Glenn, it was wonderful and so worthwhile to have a coaching session with you! You listened with empathy, and were able to weed through my issues to bring clarification to my decision about having WLS, which was not easy to do. As a WLS patient yourself, your experiences and perspective are invaluable.
Your information and sharing have been most helpful in finalizing my decision to have the weight loss surgery. I have been researching weight loss surgery for over a year now, and you have answered my questions and relieved my anxiety.
Thank you for sharing your experience in such an honest and straightforward way. It is a real relief to get a dose of reality when everyone else out there seems to be either advocating it or demonizing it.
There is something special about you and your ability to communicate "our" fears, situations, realities, etc. I feel like youve tapped into my brain and pulled my thoughts out. It's kinda funny, for never having met you in person, I feel like I've known you all my life!
You help more than you could possibly know.
After we talked, I had to hide the tears coming down my face from my co-workers around me. Many of your words hit home in regards to the pain, shame, anguish and such, throughout your lifelong struggle. I know you're a busy guy but I wanted to say "thank you" for opening yourself up to help me and others. You have not only helped me prepare me for the upcoming surgery, but also helped me get in touch with deep-seated feelings I've carried around for years and never confronted.
Your insights are so true. I eat for all of those reasons. I am sitting at my desk trying not to burst into tears. I can't even begin to describe or understand the raw emotions that you have brought out in me. I feel like you have stirred an emotional wave into my heart and it just keeps going! Thank you.
You help me realize there is someone else who really, really understands...and is doing something about it. I thank you, sincerely, for your inspiration and courage.
You always seem to say exactly what I'm feeling and would like to express but somehow just can't. Thank you again for all you are doing for the rest of us.
What a wonderful thing you are doing to help others who have had the surgery. You so eloquently say what I am always thinking. I belong to a support group and everyone is always struggling but so many people have problems telling the truth about what is really wrong - why we can't follow the plan or what is bothering us. Thanks so much for your contributions.
You are quite inspiring. If my counselor was half as thorough as you were, I would not be trying to figure a bunch of this stuff out on my own. You are helping me to prepare for this procedure!.
You are inspiring and it is people like you that help me to know that I must continue on this journey. Thank you for your upbeat spirit.
You are so candid about your feelings — both physical and psychological. After two years of researching weight loss surgery, I think yours is the most helpful, interesting, and thought-provoking information I have found. Thank you so much.
Thank you for opening up a dialog about the "darker side" of WLS. In our weight loss euphoria, it's easy to just keep rattlin' those pompoms! I was very moved by the reflections you offer on your experiences with WLS, and particularly the origins of your obesity. Hearing your voice recounting your childhood and moving through your decision, the surgery, the struggle, the success, and the blessing, really touches my heart. Thank you for your vulnerability, your insight, and your kindness. So many congratulations on difficult life work and affirming choices. I send you much love and gratitude! Barbara R. I appreciate your honesty about the difficulties of the procedures. I do need some reality check... — Karen
You brought right out into the open my exact fear — facing the reason(s) WHY I eat. Opening up to others, as you have done so wonderfully, and as now I am doing with you, shall bring me strength. And you, with your gift of yourself, your ideas and suggestions, shall as well. Given your credentials, your life's work, and level of intelligence, I imagine you're able to get my issues rather quickly. My sincere and heartfelt thanks to you for being so kind and thoughtful. Youve shown kindness and caring for a perfect stranger. I don't know if I can convey the impact you have made upon me. I am greatly impressed. It is such a joy to encounter one that is so giving of themselves. You have made me do some self examining that has been sorely lacking the last year or so.
You certainly have the gift of being able to relate your feelings and thoughts, making them clear, concise, and thought-provoking. I see so much of myself in much of what you express. Bless you.
Thank you for your honesty. I don't want to be a downer to anyone considering the surgery, but I didn't expect any of this because all I really came across was "cheerleader" stuff.. People need a fair and balanced view of what CAN happen. I think had I known about all this prior to the surgery, I MIGHT have still had it...but I could have planned a whole lot better. Thank you for your sharing!
I am so grateful to hear the "whole" story. I would get so discouraged when I went to seminars or support groups where everything seemed so rosy. I find myself relieved to know that something could happen, and I could still get through it, just like you. I can only hope that I learn to keep my thinking positive and re-frame those situations IF they come up. Thank you again.
You have been helpful for me. Not only because of the great information you share, but also because you're a guy, and there is so little that I've found about WLS that refers to guys. So thanks again for your encouragement and your willingness to share your experience.
I must say how genuinely touched I am by your sharing, and how very much I relate to all of your thoughts and understandings.
You give encouragement to those of us who are already knocked down. You show that anyone can go through the surgery and then carry on a normal life. I think I just may be your biggest fan!!
Your enthusiasm is keeping me going...
Thank you for all your advice over the past months and for your information. I appreciate you keeping it "real".
You are the first to speak so clearly to me on so many issues. Thank you for giving such an honest account of your journey. Every piece of information is helping me, inspiring me, and educating me.
Your information and help have made it possible for me to begin to think about what I need to do to make this WLS successful.
You gave me hope that, with persistence and drive (and a lot of hard work), this IS going to work. Thanks, Glenn. You've done a wonderful job.
Sharing your stories is such a personal thing, exposing so much of your raw self and I appreciate that. Thank You so much for being so open.
Thanks for sharing your experience with people like myself It sure was an inspiration to me and I feel I have gained much knowledge from you that will maybe smooth over some of the speed bumps I am about to encounter.
I'm really grateful for how you encapsulated the downsides, balanced with the positive. The points you raised came at the perfect time for me and rounded out a few issues that I hadn't thought of. You are very helpful.
You are such an awesome communicator, coach and great conveyor of your feelings. You are truly amazing. Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your knowledge with me. I soak up your wisdom like a sponge, and I'm sharing with others. This is awesome. You are helping so many of us.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU for articulating so well what I feel, think and experience as a result of my surgery. There is a certain satisfaction you get when someone can relate so well to what you're going through and for that I am grateful. Thank you again!
Thank you so much for your honesty in the one subject that I don't seem to hear all about: the downside of WLS. You've addressed so many of my concerns about this procedure and I really appreciate your candor. Keep up the good work.
No one has ever seemed as "real" as you do. I am one who wants to know the good with the bad. It helps us "newbies" so to hear true stories of the entirety of it all. Thank you again.
I want to say "thank you" in a big, big way. There needs to be more said about what to expect in the first six weeks after surgery. I think more people need to be more honest so the new surgery patients can prepare themselves a little bit better.
Being able to trust people like you who have gone down this road before is important and soothing. Thanks......
You are so insightful and encouraging! Your thorough research and your emotional perspective really hit home with me. You are my inspiration.
You motivate me to continue on despite the naysayers.
Once again, thanks for your selfless support, your willingness to map out the personal journey through weight loss surgery, and your powerful communication style.
I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed our communications. The information you have conveyed so well has prepared me in many ways — from eating to exercise, from expecting pain after surgery to dealing with plateaus. So thanks so much for your sharing, help and personal experiences.
You are the best source of information and support I have found! After communicating with you, I'm deeply moved and feel like I have found someone who is going through profound experiences very much like my own. I studied up on the WLS process for 11 months prior to having my procedure, but never in all my reading did I come across any significant discussion on the early pre-op months and the related emotional and physical challenges. Thanks for your gift! ???????????
You have been an immense inspiration and to say that I have shared many of your thoughts, dreams and fears would be an understatement. I am rendered almost, almost mind you , speechless at how helpful I have found you to be.
What a gift you are! As you talk about your experience, your honesty and gut level feelings make this new lifestyle achievable for me. Thank you so much for your experience, strength and hope.
You are so honest, true and to the core — I love it. You provide an enlightening reminder that, although food is a big part of our lives — it's not the only part of it. I feel blessed
It's such a blessing to walk this path together with people who truly understand.
I just cant believe how much you think like me. It's very strange to have someone echo your thoughts like that. Thanks for sharing yourself with me.
I have to applaud you for being so open and honest. You are very helpful.
I have been researching WLS for 2 years and I find the most comfort in your honest words. I have been to support groups, read books and watched TV programs about surgery. I have endlessly searched the internet for information and read articles and still I have found the most useful information on your website and in your newsletters. Thank you so much for doing what you do for me and for all of us.
Just read your column and felt like jumping up and down, yelling and cheering you! I feel renewed by your sharing, which really inspires me and gives me hope. I am sure you don't know how many people you are inspiring!.
You inspire me to do my best with this second chance that I have to get my life and my health back. Thanks for your support.
I have read, and re-read your journal entries frequently. They truthfully serve as a "coaching" mechanism for me.
I treasure and use your voice of encouragement, confidence and reason.
You are such an inspiration... I feel so secure in my knowledge that I have people like you to guide me through this maze of feelings, emotions and uncertainty...
I thank you for your information and positive reinforcement, and especially for your honestly.
Thank you for the time and support you have given to me and so many others with your words of wisdom, researching every aspect of wls and helping all of us to understand more fully the pros- and cons of WLS.
You tell things like it is, full of honesty and gained wisdom.
How do you so fully and honestly mirror what I feel?
I truly appreciate the "reality" you share about the "not so fun side" of WLS. You have been a great inspiration!!
You share the most honest portrayal of the procedures and consequences I have found!
Your successes and reality checks have kept me going.
I appreciate the honesty with which you share your journey. I gather strength to make my own journey from your sharing.
You are honest and tell the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, and that is so very helpful to prepare myself and my husband for what's to come. We both now feel better informed and prepared for what may come. |
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Through Thick and Thin Newsletters
Glenn, Thank you so much. It is sooo important to me that I remind myself constantly that this *isn't* a magic pill, won't be fun and easy, and is a last chance effort to getting my life back. Your sharing has touched me the most. It reminds me again, why I am doing this, what I hope to achieve by doing it, and what I am willing to sacrifice to get there. I am so at peace with my decision it is amazing, and I have people like you to thank for it. So thank you again for keeping it real. 
Thank you again for being one of the positive voices in my head.