by Kristin Williams (Author) | Format: Paperback
Bariatric surgery changes your body. It changes almost everything else, too — and nobody hands you a place to put all of that. Whether you’re having gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, or a band procedure, The Weight I Carried is a guided workbook built for the full year around your surgery: from your first insurance form to your one-year milestone, and the messy, honest, non-scale stuff in between.
This is half journal, half practical tracker — because getting through this year takes both. Inside you’ll find:
- A pre-op countdown, insurance checklist, and questions-for-your-team page to walk into surgery day organized instead of overwhelmed
- Week-by-week hydration, protein, symptom, sleep, and mood trackers for your first eight weeks of recovery
- Monthly weight, measurement, movement, and food-reintroduction logs through month twelve
- A sealed letter to your future self, written before surgery and opened on your one-year surgiversary
- Honest prompts for the parts of this journey nobody prepares you for — body image, loose skin, other people’s comments, plateaus, and your changing relationship with food
- A procedure-agnostic design, with short callouts anywhere sleeve, bypass, or band timelines genuinely differ
This workbook doesn’t tell you how to feel about any of it. It just gives you somewhere to put it — one page, one week, one month at a time. 7×10 inches, 90 pages, softcover. Not a substitute for medical advice — a place to keep track of your own.