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Sunday, September 11, 2011

A Year of Soup

On October 7th, it will have been one year since I made one of the biggest leaps of faith and came to one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make. After years of battling my weight I had gastric sleeve surgery, and life forever altered for me. I have watched in disbelief over this past year as weight melted off of me of its own volition. I swear, it was like an out-of-body experience.

Before the surgery I was trying to stay active and enjoy the things I like most in life. Travel, hiking, my family. It just kept getting harder and harder as the weight strained my body past its limits. My knees hurt. My back hurt. I was pre-diabetic, had high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. I was a poster-child for morbid obesity.



After my surgery, I began a love-affair with soup. I had always liked soup anyway, but for some reason, my new-shaped stomach really really REALLY loved it! It loved soup on a direct proportion to how much it HATED the protein shakes. I have much hatred for protein shakes, let me tell you.

At first I tried canned soups, but they were mushy, and salty, and just plain blechy. That was a definite no-go. So I started making my own. It was good, and full of protein (so THERE, you stupid shakes!), and comforting too. So I made more, and then more, and even more. Okay, to be honest, I became soup-obsessed. At times our freezer was stocked completely full of little 1/2 cup containers of frozen soup. Ham and Lima, Corn and Bacon Chowder, Sausage and Wild Rice, Butternut Squash and Cannellini. Little containers of soup gold in their very own freezer mine.

I started this blog because I'd like to share my soupy success with others. You don't have to have had weight-loss surgery to enjoy these soups. The rest of my family likes them really well too... when I share. Next time I post, I'll put up one of our all-time favorites... Sausage and Wild Rice Soup.

Soup: Good for the mind, soul, and body.








9 comments:

  1. Can't wait to see some of those recipes!!! :)

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  2. Rae... I posted my all time new favorite! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. :)

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  3. I was sleeved on July 27 and all I have been eating for the past three weeks is soup. I think I am becoming a soup addict too. Can't wait to see your recipes. Thanks for posting them.

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  4. Mariflor, soup is the best! Good luck to you on your journey, I'm so glad I took that first step nearly a year ago.

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  5. I'm looking at your recipes today. I love soup too -- it's always comforting no matter what is going on in your life! Thanks for posting your recipes!! Take care! :-)

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  6. I look forward to seeing more great soup recipes!

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  7. Posting a new one soon, Cowgirljane... thanks for stopping by!

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  8. Thank you so much for posting these yummy recipes!! I can't wait to try them! I was sleeved on September 26, 2011 and while I am not having any issues with foods I am getting tired of the shakes which I can't drink much of and am tired of just meat lol. I hope you keep posting, and you look AMAZING!

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  9. Yum yum and so innovative. Thank you for investing your time to share such wonderful recipes.

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