Our Sleeved Life Podcast

Our Sleeved Life Podcast is a candid, community-driven show about weight loss surgery and the ordinary, awkward, painful, and affirming realities that follow it. The format feels like a group chat with notes from lived experience, but the topics are concrete enough to be useful. Episodes talk about vitamins, protein powder, blood work, mindful eating, hospital visits, liquid medication, gas pain, and the problem of finding support that actually feels supportive. The show is especially sharp on stigma. It challenges the idea that surgery is an easy route and pushes back against language that treats non-surgical weight loss as more legitimate. That argument is not abstract. It comes through in stories about people being boxed in, judged, or expected to disappear quietly after choosing surgery. Recent interviews add texture to that perspective. Frank Day discusses men and weight loss surgery, family support, pain after surgery, and what helped him prepare. Holly Miller’s episode lingers on the search for a bariatric friend, disappointing support groups, Kaiser classes, and the moment of accepting where real community may come from. Janice Bissex’s conversation brings cannabis into the post-bariatric conversation, with careful reminders about doctors, anesthesia, medications, and individual risk. The Cutting Edge episode expands the world into plastic surgery recovery, compression garments, swelling, tummy tuck and lipo aftercare, and practical supply choices. The tone is warm but not sanitized. It can be funny, impatient, affectionate, and direct in the same stretch of conversation. The show’s repeated medical disclaimers matter because the episodes are personal experience and peer support, not clinical instruction. Its strongest value is the gap it fills between a surgeon’s checklist and the emotional reality of changing a body, a diet, a social life, and a sense of confidence. For listeners navigating bariatric surgery, it offers recognition as much as information.