Earlier this summer (when I had great hopes of many, many sunny days) and we had a couple of sizzlers that made swimming a most enticing possibility, I dared to check my swimwear for suitability. It’s true to say that the slightly baggy and certainly not figure-enhancing black and white costume I faced was[Read More]
excess skin
More Than Skin Deep!
I meet so many post-op patients who feel they have ‘been left in limbo’ after their WLS with excess skin issues. It would appear surgeons and other professionals feel the same – read our guest post for their reaction to the latest study on this …
Unfinished WLS Business – Excess Skin
This is the time of the year when I do an edit of what we have covered before and what we should cover in the coming months on the website. It also gives me a chance to see what features have been popular and which ones bring the biggest comment, query or postbag haul. Undeniably[Read More]
5 Things Not To Say To Someone Who’s Had WLS
By SAMANTHA GREGOR, Health.com Weight-loss surgery has always been a topic of conversation and intrigue. After New Jersey Governor Chris Christie underwent Lap-Band surgery (in which a silicone band is placed around the upper part of the stomach to shrink it) in 2013, the media went crazy, questioning how[Read More]