This week I wrote a guest column for the Bandwagon on the Road newsletter. The theme for the week was expectations. The following paragraph comes from my column, Great Expectations of Weight Loss Surgery. Be…
Posts Published by Tom Bilcze
Rules for a Perfect Day
On Christmas Day at my father-in-laws farm, I was thumbing through his copy of Reminisce magazine. I came across a short gem in a reader-contributed column, “Rules for a Perfect Day.” The contributor remembered that…
New Year resolutions… finding out who you are
Welcome to the New Year! Sales of all the things we need to live a healthy life replace the past month’s parade of holiday sales. Helping people achieve their New Year Resolutions is big business….
Tom’s Top Five Memorable Days of 2011
January 1 New Year’ Day saw a change in how I would approach New Year resolutions. I had spent four months researching and building a wellness vision. The more I found out about how a…
Tom’s Five Favorite Posts of 2011
2011 was my sixth year of blogging. In January, I redesigned the look and feel of the blog. I also changed the focus to my thoughts on healthy living from a bariatric patient’s point of…
Tom’s Top 5 Apps of 2011
2011 was the year I joined the iPhone family. I have to admit that this phone is the best phone I have ever had. It really meets my needs and has a very intuitive user…
Top Five Photos of 2011
Today, I begin a weeklong series of “Top 5…” posts. These are snippets of 2011 from different perspectives. I am starting this series with the top five photos of the year. I like to take…
The Ghost of Christmas Past: Nostalgic Eating
Ralphie, the main character in A Christmas Story, wanted an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle more than anything from Christmas. A Christmas Story really brings back my childhood memories of Christmas…