Bariatric Blogs?

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Hi everyone!

Do you have any favorite bariatric blogs? I know there's Eggface and Bariatric Foodie. What else do you read?

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There are a couple that I frequent, but I try to stay away from the ones that are clearly pushing certain brands/products as they don't appear to be genuine. Some of the ones I like are:

• Beauty and the Bypass - There are some good stories and motivation here. It's kind of "all over the place" meaning a bit unorganized, but you can find some inspiring stuff there.
• WLSHub - This one is quickly becoming a fave. Well organized, good resources like independent product reviews, news articles and GREAT recipes. Its still a 'young' site but it reads really well and doesn't seem to be aligned with any specific product/brand...and the recipes are great.
• The World According to Eggface - Most likely the most well-known. I really like the info, but unfortunately the site is so frustrating sometimes as it's just not well organized or easy to navigate. Great resources if you want to fish through everything to find them though. The ricotta bake saved me early post-op...no denying that!

Other than those there really isn't a lot of "blog" style sites unfortunately. I think it's a difficult subject to advertise and perhaps people just simply don't have the time. For now, for me, WLSHub.com is about the closest to a 'blog' or news source that's out there and, even though it appears to be newer, it seems to add new content (especially recipes ) fairly regularly.

Aside from those, there are forums, which really is only this one and one called Thinner Times (this forum doesn't allow links to them...lol) that seems to be picking up quite a bit of traffic recently. Some good info on there, but not as robust as this one.