The proof is in the puddin' - Becky Driscoll

Today, I have begun a new journey.  No.  Not a journey – an expedition.  I have it all mapped out.  I have considered each route, and believe I have the best one laid out. I acquired the appropriate gear to make it a little easier going.  I have been so thorough, I even considered what to eat along the way. Success means a passage of immense symbolic significance.  Join me each Monday, as I share my journal of triumphs and challenges along the way to losing 25 lbs of body fat and reclaiming my wardrobe!

"A journey of 10000 steps begins with the first single step" 

Today was DAY 1:  I took the horrid body comp

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Obesity and Overweight-Kate

The injuries and surgeries are more dangerous because of the extra weight our society carries.  Technology has made it so that the procedures from earlier in her career can be accomplished with less risk.  However, it is the condition of the patients’ body that has pushed the risk higher, and that condition has increasingly been the weight of the patient.  As I left the ICU that day, I heard them announce that 2 more open hearts would be arriving soon-one of them was 345 pounds, the next one was 380 pounds.

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