Hello, friends!
Welcome to Gastric Sleeve Glow Up! Shaina here. I’m freshly post-op from VSG (surgery date 11.22.21) and I’ll be sharing my journey here, on Youtube, on TikTok, and on Instagram. I’m here to help fellow gastric sleeve patients navigate the surgery and post-op experience, heal their relationship with food, make sustainable habit changes, and ultimately love themselves into health.
Gastric sleeve can be an incredible tool to help you reverse or eliminate health conditions, prevent injury, and increase mobility. It can also provide an opportunity to relearn how to care for your body and mind in kinder ways. But instead of keeping our eyes on those incredible achievements, we easily get caught up in the number on the scale and the way we look in the mirror. We continue to shame and punish ourselves.
We live in a world that is cruel to fat people, and we often inflict that cruelty on ourselves. Instead of carrying that viciousness into your life after surgery, I hope you’ll join me in breaking the cycle of restriction, self hatred, and shame.
So here’s what you won’t find here at Gastric Sleeve Glow Up:
- Diets (apart from medically required recovery programs from your surgeon)
- Food shaming
- Food group restrictions
- Body shaming
- Punishing exercise
- Sloppy before and glowing after pictures
And here’s what you will find instead:
- Information about surgery from pre-op to post-op
- The science behind why gastric sleeve works
- Simple meal and snack ideas
- Incremental habit change tips
- Celebration of everyday wins
- Gentle exercise suggestions
- Body positivity
- Guidance on eating to feel well physically and mentally
- Kindness
- Strategies for supporting your mental health
For now, I’ll be sharing blog posts and social media content, but be on the look out for exciting, expanded resources in 2022, including online courses and one-on-one coaching. Sign up now to be notified when these resources launch.
Let’s glow up together!