Are Chemicals Making Us Fat?
I always knew that toxins could make me sick. But I didn’t know they could make me fat.1 I feel that this is the most important blog post I’ve ever written on lipedema. Back in 2012, I had lost close…
A Beautiful Mindset
What does mental wellness have to do with body confidence? The answer to that is EVERYTHING. Your frame of mind, your headspace, what you think about yourself and the world around you – that actually comes first. To emphasize this,…
Embracing Your Shape and Style
We live in a time where pretty much anything and everything is in vogue – grunge, high-waisted and white-washed jeans, vintage and retro, red lipstick, and pin-up outfits, mullets, and overalls…The list of everything that’s “in” is pretty infinite. I…
A Reason to Stop Hiding Those Legs
I will never forget the day I was diagnosed with Lipedema. I’d never heard of it before, and though I was relieved to have answers, it didn’t really mean that much to me. Yet… This was in 2013 and there…
Amber’s Lipedema Story
I think it’s a little evident that my sister and I are part of the crew Queen sings about in “Fat Bottomed Girls”. We can’t deny it, nor would we even like to. Luckily for us, we were raised in…
Lipedema, Surgeries & Diet – My Thoughts
In 2013, I was diagnosed with lipedema. You can read about that story here. I found a support group on Facebook called Lipedema Sisters USA. Within a month of joining the group, I found out that there was a doctor…
My Lipedema Diagnosis
My body hasn’t been right for years. But it took a deep nose dive in the summer of 2012 when I could no longer walk easily without assistance, my memory was presenting a significant problem, and the pain throughout my…
3 Surgeries in Europe – My Experience
After getting diagnosed in 2013, I discovered that there were less conservative treatment options that could help eliminate my Lipedema pain quickly. Other women with Lipedema were going to Germany to get a special kind of surgery called water-jet assisted…
