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to learn how to like myself, even though I am not perfect.

19 People
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have a friend I actually do things with.

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for DH and I to go out and DO things instead of going out to eat/movies!

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Take dancing lessons (ballroom, belly, whatever!) and dance with my husband

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Become the person I have always wanted to be... Healthy, happy, energetic. FUN!!

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I'm APPROVED!!!
on March 4, 2010 6:05 pm
YAHOO!  I got my approval today!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, I also found out my surgery date is pushed back AGAIN but hey, I'm APPROVED! 
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Happy Anniversary to Us!
on January 30, 2010 3:08 pm
Happy 17th Anniversary to Frank and I!  The kids just went off with a friend for the night and we are headed to a hotel with a wonderful jacuzzi suite!  Going to enjoy a work out in the hotel fitness suite, take a swim, maybe a little nap, shower up and go out for a nice dinner at Orso.  Then back to enjoy the jacuzzi in the room!  Whoo hoo we have never ever celebrated this way so it is going to be FUN!!! 
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I've mostly been a lurker until now...
on January 24, 2010 1:40 am
So I've been on this site for a few months, didn't really use it much when I was first told about it but now surgery is scheduled and it's getting closer and starting to feel more real!

I am pretty excited that my last month of my six month weight loss program is next month... February 19th...  Wow the six months really have flown by... guess it helps they ran through the holidays.

I spoke with the lady at my insurance company and she told me that once she gets all the paperwork with the 6 month history, the psych and nutrition consult she'll have me approved in a day or two!   (When I told her which surgeon I was planning to work with she was VERY exited.)  Wow that sounds so simple compared to what I've heard some people have had to go through to get this approved!!!  Hopefully it will be...  because of this and because I want to get this done as soon as possible, we have scheduled a surgery date of March 23rd!  Exciting... makes it feel a little more real... and a little more scary!!!

There are only a few people I've told... my mother on the other hand had told everyone she knows.  I think she's slowed down with that though because she has gotten some of the negative feedback we have all experienced and/or heard about. 

My biggest question right now is when to tell my boss that I need the time off.  I'm traveling out of state for my surgery so I will be out for two weeks.  And the surgery is right before we have a BIG annual meeting with my workplace.  However, I can do my part of the prep work for that even now so that is what I've been working on.  I may just wait until the insurance approval comes through and then tell them.  I don't want to tell them why I need the time off....  which shouldn't be a problem, unless my boss throws this big meeting in my face.  I guess I could possibly get a doctor's note telling them I am having surgery...

I just feel sooo ready.  If I could hop on a plane tonight I would be dancing in the sand in twelve hours!  (Yes, I'm going to Cali for surgery!!!)

PS My husband's family doesn't know I am doing this... we are planning to go visit them (Hawaii) next year and I'll be half the woman I am now.  Won't they be shocked!

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My name is Kirstin and I am 39 years old.  I love Jesus.  I love to laugh, watch sappy holiday movies, chick flicks and suspense/thrillers.  I love listening to K-Love and pretty much all contemporary Christian music.  I work full time but I wish I only worked part time.   I have two kids, a six year old son and a three year old daughter and I have a wonderful, loving husband. 

I have never been thin in my entire life.  I was a fat kid, a fat teenager, a fat twenty something.  Then I got married and I got fatter!  Then I wanted to have babies so I worked really, really hard at losing the weight for what I hoped would be the last time.  Well when the pregnancies failed I was so pissed that my body had "let me down" that I self sabotaged and ended up back where I started...  I have come to the place where I have given up on ever losing weight a couple of times...  shortly after my daughter was born, I looked into WLS in my hometown but practically ran screaming from the local guy's office.  HORRIBLE.  But now I am aware of better options, and I also know a lot more people who have gone through this and I have seen how well they have and continue to do.  So...  I'm ready to own my piece of that happiness! 

I know that my marriage will improve when I lose the weight... not because of him, but because of me.  When I lost all that weight before trying to conceive, I was so happy.  I remember that very vividly.  I know that I will be much less irritable and critical when I feel better about myself and that will only lead to better relationships with the ones I love (and others, too).  

I am ready for the rest of my life... I am ready to be a positive role model to my children...  I am ready to move on from being the biggest person in the room.... I AM READY!