2 years later

Jan 22, 2010

Wow, I can't believe it's been two years this month since my last post.  Geez.  I have gained 15 pounds back, started playing wii and walking during my lunch hour.  I will lose it again.  Just gotta start the basics again. Gonna start getting back on line here at obesityhelp to remember how this all started.  I am so thankful for my surgery and the additional years it's giving me with my family. 
My mother had a major stroke in October 2008 and lost her speech and has a peg tube and can not eat.  That's humbling.  When you sit there and watch her pour liquid through a hole in her stomach or try to write her thoughts down on a piece of paper and can't write  a sentence let alone spell a word, it's very humbling.  But we are thankful that she is mobile and has her senses and can take care of herself except can't communicate.  She's trapped in her body.  Smoking caused all of this.  I still remember begging my mom to quit smoking, she said if you lose 100 pounds, well I lost 100 pounds and she has now stopped smoking only because she can't.
She has to have a caretaker with her to drive her, take her to appts, communicate for her and make sure she is ok.  Thankfully she is in speech therapy but losing hope. 
So with this said, I hope anyone that reads this can see that food addiction took a toll on my body, and smoking has taken a toll on my mom's.  They say that once you have addicting behavior that we can substitute our food addiction with another, please noone pick up smoking or drinking as their addiction.  Try something positive, try knitting, walking, writing letters, anything but something harmful to our bodies or someone elses. 

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