My son received his liver shrinking diet from Dr. Kuri's patient facilitator this week. He must be on this diet for exactly 3 weeks before gastric banding surgery. I know it's to shrink the liver before the lapband is put on but I never really knew...

I just returned from a trip to the US to visit my elderly mother and my grown children in Atlanta and Orlando. I had a great time. Ate too much, now I have more pounds to exercise off but that's ok. When you live away from the US and go back, you...

I'm in Atlanta now visiting my son and my little grandchildren and I've begun shopping for clothes to take back home. I live in a very small town that's a tourist destination so my options are really cheap stuff or hugely overpriced luxury items. So...

I have only one more antibiotic tablet to take — just one. I don't need a doctor to tell me that I'm nearly all mended, I feel it. The nasty looking wound has turned to mildly gross, but my sparkle is coming back. I jump out of bed when I wake...

I told you that I'm scheduled at the end of November for my first gastric banding fill. That's more than a year and more than 50 pounds since my initial surgery. I got sick and well, pretty much fell off the bandwagon until I started feeling...