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gloop
on 5/9/10 12:21 am
Topic: RE: HAPPY MOTHERS (GRANDMOTHERS) DAY!
Happy Mothers' Day everyone, enjoy your day
        
I'm in the process of changing my diet, relationship with food and my lifestyle.  I'm in training for maintaining.
(deactivated member)
on 5/9/10 12:02 am
Topic: RE: HAPPY MOTHERS (GRANDMOTHERS) DAY!
Beautiful post Sherrie. Yes, Happy Mother's day.

We're celebrating by going to the zoo and aquarium - lots of walking. Food is not part of the celebration.
(deactivated member)
on 5/8/10 11:58 pm
Topic: RE: What are you celebrating and proud of? Weekend Edition
On May 9, 2010 at 5:01 AM Pacific Time, gloop wrote:

Skylar, just imagine! You've gone from needing assistant to get up to walking so fast people can't catch you

Gloop, I have to tell you I am so thankful every day since I found the McDougall diet - can you imagine I was so close to going into a wheelchair and so miserable and frustrated with my body. Now it's hard to keep up with me. LOL

(deactivated member)
on 5/8/10 10:10 pm - Rochester, NY
Topic: HAPPY MOTHERS (GRANDMOTHERS) DAY!
Just wanted to wish all the mammas and grandmas out there a Happy Mother's Day!!

Enjoy being with family and celebrate your time together (and not the food)! 

A special wish for our new Mamma, Christa and our new Gramma, Holly!!!
gloop
on 5/8/10 10:01 pm
Topic: RE: What are you celebrating and proud of? Weekend Edition

Skylar, just imagine! You've gone from needing assistant to get up to walking so fast people can't catch you

        
I'm in the process of changing my diet, relationship with food and my lifestyle.  I'm in training for maintaining.
mommyoffour
on 5/8/10 11:00 am
Topic: RE: sitting on the fence
Good luck whatever you decide. I too am wishy-washy on the surgery.  I know I could lose on my own but haven't had wonderful luck yet.  Stress is horrible to me. And I know the surgery is a tool.  I keep weighing having support .  And then I think I can lose it on my own and use the money for the tummy tuck or breast lift and tucks of skin here and there.  Then I think if I don't have the surgery, what if I am not here in a year. What would happen to my  family.  So scary.
(deactivated member)
on 5/8/10 10:20 am - Albany, NY
Topic: RE: sitting on the fence
Thanks again Jody and Happy Mothers Day !!!
Jody08
on 5/8/10 10:12 am - essex, Canada
Topic: RE: sitting on the fence
 this site has helped me so much..
this is huge decision, I thought I had decided but there was this little nagging voice in my head that was making question things, was thinking it was all the anxiety of the potential surgery etc.. but someone posted on this board that there is NOTHING wrong with our digestive system the problem is in our heads..so even if u cut the stomach u have not solved the problem.

see, my personality now takes over when I read something like that..I am a practical person who hates things in excess and do what things wasted..so why would i try to fix something(stomach) that is not broken
yes I understand that this many years as MO has broken my system a little, for example, the hormone signals from my gut to my brain to signal hunger and full etc. but this all fixable..
but it is in my head, and something has finally changed in the way I am thinking
for example, we had Mother's day dinner tonight at a restaurant and I love their calamari but it is fried, I ordered it and that was my dinner, it is an appetizer but since it was fried I knew I would be full etc.. well I was more than full, I have not had anything fried in more than a month, my belly is not too happy..it was good but i ate nothing else and only had water but something is so different in my head, b4 i would have ordered more food, a pop and dessert(my fav at this place is tiramisu) but I did not want any of it..so finally something is working right in my head and hopefully my gut will follow
here in canada it is a very long process, about 8 months to one year with tons and tons of testing, so I losing the weight as I go thru this process and hope in the next two months that my decision becomes for clearly set..

wishing u all the best and mayeb start journalling, it can help when facing a life changing decision

or just keep coming here as u see I talk alot*lol* 
started this process back in 2007/2008 denied MGB, denied for Barix, put on hold (BMI was too high for pilot phase)at St.joe's and since moved to Windsor and had to start again, December, 2009 referral sent from GP...April 5 and 8, 2010 1st appt at Windsor clinic with nurse and doc
April 16, 2010 sleep clinic, April 27 echo
May 3,2010 Orientation at Met hospital--,
SURGERY booked Oct.20.2010

    
(deactivated member)
on 5/8/10 9:24 am
Topic: RE: What are you celebrating and proud of? Weekend Edition
Hi Ruth, I got in two really good 5 mile walks in the mall yesterday and today.

Friday I had another person stop me in the mall to tell me that she has been watching me walk for a year and she just had to tell me how great I looked and wanted to know what I was doing. Now this is someone who last year opened a new store in the mall - so since her store opened she has been watching me. LOL Is this a start of a fan club? But now I'm getting a little paranoid about how many people are watching me. I've also noticed this lady talks to the Hallmark card store lady and probably some others near her store - so now I"m wondering if they discuss me? It's weird. She also said she tried to stop me before to tell me this.....but I walk so fast that it's hard to stop me.
(deactivated member)
on 5/8/10 9:12 am
Topic: RE: Sorry........I need to vent!!!!!!!
Vent away, it helps to feel better and (((HUGS))) because this is very painful to experience.

Finally, just ignore them completely and don't let anyone see that it hurts you. When people - and it's mostly childish, immature men who do this, it's really not about you but all about them. They feel inferior and to make themselves feel better they try to pick on and make fun of other people who they perceive are weaker than them. This is why they called you out and not your boyfriend. If you ignore them, they won't get their fun and they will move on to someone else. I know it's hard to ignore and to feel hurt, but do it and keep doing it. Hold your head up high.

Mature well adjusted adults don't verbally attack other people. It doesn't have to be about weight, it can be anything - a large nose, limping etc. they just look for a weak point to make a dig. I bet these creeps also have weight problems themselves.

Don't let them get to you, ever, they just aren't worth it.
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