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Goals

get small enough for my husband to pick me up

129 People
 in progress, 
72 People
 achieved this

be able to buy clothes at a NORMAL store!

47 People
 in progress, 
25 People
 achieved this

Journal my throughts regularly

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 in progress, 
3 People
 achieved this

Wear knee-high boots that actually fit on my calf

132 People
 in progress, 
58 People
 achieved this

help others who struggle with obesity

19 People
 in progress, 
4 People
 achieved this
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Surgeon Testimonial

Donald Waldrep, M.D.
1st Impression: Real life McDreamy
Impression over time: Still McDreamy, but a little goofy too
Office Staff: Friendly, helpful; but make sure you stay on them about disability
Like least: NOTHING; I LOVE Dr. Waldrep!
Future patients should know: He is a TALL, SKINNY man, but one who truly understands what we're going through!
Aftercare: It is mentioned NUMEROUS times that you have to commit to your follow appointments, and dietary guidelines.
Risks of surgery addressed: He has the blue packet which outlines EVERYTHING that can go wrong, it was very informative!
Rate him overall: 10+
Both surgical competence & bedside manner are important, and Dr. Waldrep has plenty of both!
Jenci S.'s Journey

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I went through my teens trying every diet imaginable. Nothing worked, and by the time I reached my late 20's I realized I was an anti-diet person. I was at a point where I said no to everything. I said there was no diet that would work for the rest of my life, so why try. Also, I didn't think I had the willpower to "diet", I was a closet eater. If no one was looking, I would stuff my face!
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Slowly Changing
posted on 7/30/12 8:05 am
Mindless eating.  It is one of the roots of my obesity.  Just one.  :)  But it is a big one.  I am constantly looking for something to stuff in my mouth.  So keeping healthier choices around me was essential to keeping the weight off, and now to help me get the weight back down. 

I have to keep reminding myself I have a tool inside me, a gift.  One I can use for good or for bad.  I can cheat it, I can pretend it isn't there telling me to stop eating, or I can let it take charge again, and listen.  That is where I am today, listening.  Letting my stomach be the guide, not my head.  Because heaven knows where my head will take me.  It will stuff whatever it can in my mouth. 

Right now my eating is simply out of control.  I eat what I want when I want to eat it.  Someone on here once wrote, "I am not on a low fat diet, I am on a low intake diet."  I loved that.  I still believe that can be true for some people.  And maybe for me someday.  But I took it too far.  I believed I could truly eat whatever I wanted.  She wasn't saying she could eat one See's candy a day, she was saying, she could enjoy one See's candy a month maybe.  She was saying she could have real cheese, but not half the block, use real sour cream, but not smother her chicken in it.  And first and foremost she was eating her protein.  I think that is my hardest lesson.  I don't gravitate to protein.  I like most overweight folks gravitate toward carbs and candy.  In fact, I am not a one kind of fat offender.  Some people can choose between sweet snacks or satly, yeah I choose both.  I can't pick.  I am the girl with the bucket of popcorn and the box of M&M's at the movies.  I still live that way.

I am not sure where this post is headed other than to say I know losing this weight won't be like my initial weight loss after surgery.  Just because I have come to expect the weight to fall off doesn't mean it is going to happen without a lot of cooperation from me.  I am prepared to cooperate.  I guess that is where this is going.

Anyway, Happy Monday Everyone.  Ta ta for now.


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