Good Monday morning Everyone,

Hope everyone had a great Easter and weekend.    Mine was spent with family members.    Today I am SO grateful for my WLS and my life since then.    Not that it has been perfect because nothing is ever totally perfect but it has been good.   One of the best decisions I have ever made in my life was to have my WLS.   You who are reading this have much more choices than I had almost 7 yrs. ago.   I only had the choices between lap band and RNY.   With my love for sweets and breads my surgeon said that the only one that would work for me was RNY,   I am so glad of the choice that I made to have that surgery.    I am also very grateful that I had no issues with my surgery.    But I am also SO grateful for you guys that you have even more choices of 5 different surgeries rather than the 2 that I had choices of.   PLEASE share with us what you are grateful for today.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

 
Yeah, it IS scary!  But when you put things in perspective, it is pretty much like having your appendix removed.  Not a lot different.  But I totally agree, it takes time to get to that perspective, especially after having been banded.

  Happy Good Friday Everyone,

Hope everyone has had a great week and is ready to celebrate Easter in a couple of days.    We ALL have so very much to be grateful for in my life and in my family.     I am SO grateful for my life since I had my WLS.   Life is SO much easier now than before my surgery.    I am SO grateful that at almost 7 yrs. post op I have not had any major weight gains and I am very healthy.    SO grateful for my family, friends and aquantiences.     Grateful for all the things I can now do since my WLS that we all tend to take for granted yrs. after our surgeries.     Grateful for life itself.   PLEASE share with us if you will what you are grateful for today.    Have a blessed Easter !!!


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

  Good Morning Everyone,

Hope everyone is having a great week.   Can't believe that tomorrow is Good Friday.   This year is sure flying by.     Today I am so grateful for my Faith.     Faith not only in my creator but faith that I can now lose weight when I need to and be successful at it.    Grateful for what my WLS has meant to my life and the hope that it has given me.   Grateful for family time that any of the holiday's bring.    Please share with us what you are grateful for.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

  Good Morning Everyone,

Today I am grateful that even though tornados and large hail was all around us yesterday my family was safe and sound.     Thank God for that.    Prayers for the families who were affected by these terrible storms.     We ALL have so much to be grateful for.     At this time of year more than some of the other times of the year it is evident that we have so much to be grateful for.    I am grateful for the Easter Season and what it means to MY life.    Please say a prayer for me if you think about it this weekend.   This is the first Easter that my 26 yr. old son will not be with my family.    Thank God I had my Teen Challenge guys to talk to about this last night.    I got pretty teary eyed just thinking about it.  My family means the world to me and I love them unconditionally.    I will be OK though.   I am so grateful even though he is 300 miles away that he is drug free and living the live that we had planned for him 26 yrs ago when we adopted him from his drug addicted parents.     PLEASE share with us what you are grateful for today.    Have a blessed day.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian