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Kim H.
on 7/20/11 4:08 am - Duluth, MN
Topic: RE: WEDNESDAY GRATEFUL POST
Was not online at all yesterday so did not know it was your birthday! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! Glad to hear that things in your world are settling down. Stress is NEVER a good thing, but it is a fact of life, isn't it? Darn it anyway! Love you!

~Kim~

                    
Kim H.
on 7/20/11 4:04 am - Duluth, MN
Topic: RE: Looking for a friend
Everyone *****plied to you Darci, is right! We all are here for you...for each other! Now my experience was that I was on liquids for 2 weeks before AND 2 weeks after surgery and still that is the stage I felt/still feel the most comfortable with. I know I am strange.Please come back to this message board often..it helps to stay in touch with "friends who understand exactly what you are going through!" Good luck!!!!

~Kim~

                    
Kim H.
on 7/20/11 3:57 am - Duluth, MN
Topic: RE: Cruisin'
I worried too while I was in Vegas that I would gain, but, I lost 2 pounds..got a fill and am almost at my sweet spot..yay! Aren't vacations fun though!

~Kim~

                    
Amy B.
on 7/20/11 1:43 am
Topic: Cruisin'
 Well, I worried for nothing! I had a great time on my cruise and didn't gain weight!!! Didn't lose, but didn't gain :D I have my next fill tomorrow and know I need it. Anyway, I'm glad to be back!
One day at a time.  
Vivian Prouty
on 7/19/11 8:37 pm - Fort Worth, TX
Topic: WEDNESDAY GRATEFUL POST
  Good Morning Everyone,

I am up way to early this morning.   I woke up at 3 and couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to begin my posts much earlier than  normal.    Hope everyone is having a great week.   I want to Thank everyone who send me birthday wishes yesterday.   I was extremely honored !!!  Thank God my life seems to be settling down somewhat.   It is about time.   Although I have been so extremely stressed out.......I am grateful for what the future holds and the outcome from all the stress that I have been under.   As we all know....this is a Grateful Post.   Now let's all voice what we are grateful for today.    We are SUCH a blessed people whether we realize it or not.   We are not guaranteed anything at all in our lives.   Everything that comes our way we should be so grateful for even if it is as small as waking up and seeing sunshine today.    PLEASE if you would like...share with us what you are grateful for today.    Today I am grateful for.....coffee which wakes me up everyday, my life and health,  my WLS and all the choices for different WLS available for the choosing.    For insurance companies that cover WLS.    Grateful for my wonderful husband and 3 son's and my wonderful daughter in law.    Grateful that I am handling the stress better than I thought I would although I have cried my heart out....I know that I will not have more stress placed on me than I can bare.    Grateful for my Faith and belief in a higher power and grateful for prayers said for me and the answered prayers that have come my way.    Hope everyone has a wonderful day....make good food choices....remember the choice is yours.    Please share what you are grateful for with us.    Also....if you have the chance to attend one of the OH Conferences....please do so.  They are all totally awesome and you meet the most wonderful people there.    Grateful also for the New Orleans Conference Sept. 9 - 10.    Hope to meet you at that one.   Have a blessed day !!


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

Vivian Prouty
on 7/19/11 8:19 pm - Fort Worth, TX
Topic: MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE FOR TODAY
 Train yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CAN NOT CHANGE;   COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS THAT I CAN;  AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE !!!!    THIS IS MY DAILY PRAYER.
Vivian Prouty      Obesity Help Support Group Coach  "LOSE IT 4 LIFE"


 

Katie Keane in New
York

on 7/19/11 1:56 am - NY
Topic: RE: first fill
ttny007

Had mine 2 weeks ago, it is nothing.  A drink,  an x-ray viewing , a quick pin ***** some chat as much as you need, and your done.
I had to drive an hour, I was expecting more, Ha.
Really, don't upset yourself.

Katie in NY

Katie Keane
    
Tom C.
on 7/18/11 10:51 pm - Mount Arlington, NJ
Topic: RE: Looking for a friend

Darci,

Sorry to start off this reply with a correction. You state you don’t have any friends who knows what you’re going through. Sorry, but you have a much of friends, RIGHT HERE, who know EXACTLY what you’re going through. So always know you can come to us.

Many time people cannot relate to a specific addiction. Having never smoked in my life I can’t understand how someone can’t just throw the pack away and stop smoking. Same can be said when it comes to food addiction. The average person has no idea what we go through. And the entertainment  (movies, television) and media (news) industry doesn’t help when they portray “overweight" people as lazy slobs who can’t control themselves.

Well, know you can always contact me via here, personal email ([email protected]) or phone (send me an email and I will give you my number – or just look at any truckers rest-stop men’s room wall .. I mean .. oooppppssss).

Good luck MY FRIEND!!

Good Luck on your Journey !!

Tom

“Nothing I will ever eat will give me the feeling I get as when I lose weight”  The views expressed are based on my own experiences - and should NOT BE FOLLOWED IN LIEU OF DOCTOR’S ADVICE/INSTRUCTIONS. Only your Doctor knows your condition, and make sure you talk to them before making any changes to your diet
Tom C.
on 7/18/11 10:42 pm - Mount Arlington, NJ
Topic: RE: Nose bleed

I never heard of this, and it’s probably unrelated. But my advice is always contact your Doctor. It’s best to hear “that’s normal" or (in this case) “that’s nothing to be concerned about" instead of hearing “why didn’t you contact us when it first happened".

Good Luck on your Journey !!

Tom

“Nothing I will ever eat will give me the feeling I get as when I lose weight”  The views expressed are based on my own experiences - and should NOT BE FOLLOWED IN LIEU OF DOCTOR’S ADVICE/INSTRUCTIONS. Only your Doctor knows your condition, and make sure you talk to them before making any changes to your diet
Tom C.
on 7/18/11 10:40 pm - Mount Arlington, NJ
Topic: RE: Small Victories
FFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!

That's the way you would hear it going down one of those slides!!
Good Luck on your Journey !!

Tom

“Nothing I will ever eat will give me the feeling I get as when I lose weight”  The views expressed are based on my own experiences - and should NOT BE FOLLOWED IN LIEU OF DOCTOR’S ADVICE/INSTRUCTIONS. Only your Doctor knows your condition, and make sure you talk to them before making any changes to your diet
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