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  • Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Member Since: 5/25/2008
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Learning Patience
on May 29, 2008 7:50 pm
Well, I seem to be playing the waiting game. I guess this will be a test of my patience.  It's funny, it took me fifteen years to gain all of this weight but waiting a couple of weeks for my consultation seems like torture.  I will need to meet with the nutrionist on 6/6 for a consultation before I will be able to meet with the surgeon.   I just feel as if I am constantly in a waiting pattern in all aspects of my life. I'm a social worker and I have a good job but I still feel that I am not in the position that I will retire from or exactly where God needs me to be.  I feel as if I am constantly searching but never quite achieving.  Maybe God is waiting on me to be satisfied where I am and accepting of my position, whether good or bad before I can move forward.   I think I need to learn to be still and listen and focus on this moment in time so a year, two, ten years from now when I am complaining about the ten pounds I need to lose I will reflect on this time and learn to appreciate where I am.        
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Wake Up Call!
on May 27, 2008 7:37 pm
May 28, 2008

Today I had a huge wake up call.  I realize how my bad food choices and lack of activity has affected my son.  I purchased a scale today so I could start to hold myself accountable for my weight and acknowledge just where eating has taken me to.  When my ten year old son saw the scale in the kitchen he jumped on it an immediately jumped off.  When I saw his weight, I was shocked and hurt because we make excuses for ourselves and for our children.  Well, there big boned...it's just our genetics...he's a growing boy and will grow out of it..  All Lies. Me and my husband have set a bad example.  My son cried after seeing those numbers and talked about how his friends, classmates and family have made fun of him and made him feel ashamed of his weight.  As a momma, this hurt to the core.  How do you tell your child to keep their head up when inside you feel just as embarrassed and ashamed of the numbers you see.  God give me strength!  Help me to make choices I need to make for my life and that of my children.  I never want to see those kind of tears again because I know that I am the cause.    

Next week I will see the nutrionist.  The next step to my first consultation with the surgeon.  I have woken up and I will make a change.  
   
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Anxiously Waiting
on May 25, 2008 6:01 pm
May 25, 2008

I am anxiously waiting an appointment with the surgeon.  I have finally completed all of their requirements. psychological testing, bloodwork, letter from my primary and so on.  I am hoping to have lap-rny by early fall, sooner if possible.   I almost feel obsessed with this website.  I am so encouraged by reading about other people's journeys through this process and I can't wait to have my own "after" picture.  I pray that I hear something this week.  Looking forward to memorial day tomorrow and I plan to use restraint and be selective about the foods that I choose.      
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