Good Morning Everyone,

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.   I had a really good one.   Spent the day at Teen Challenge with my son and all his fellow roommates there.   It was kinda sad when some of the guys came up to me and hugged me crying cause they were missing their families.    I seem to have taken  on the role of Mom to all the 36 men that are there.   I came in with 2 huge boxes of junk food for them all.    Today I am grateful the opportunity to have had the opportunity to be with all these guys on Christmas and hopefully brighten those guys and my sons day.   Grateful for all the amazing changes that are taking place in my middle son's life.    Grateful that he is drug free and on the right track finally and the other guys at Teen Challenge too.   Grateful for my WLS after a lifetime of being morbidly obese and for mantance for 6 yrs not having that much of a regain.   Life is good and I am so Grateful for my family, friends, Faith and answered prayers that come my way daily.    Grateful for all the wonderful people here on Obesity Help and SO very grateful for OH.    Grateful for support groups that keep me and so many others on track.     PLEASE share with us if you will what you too are grateful for today.   Have a blessed day and please be safe if you are out and about today.


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian 

   Good Morning Everyone,

Hope everyone is about ready for Christmas because it's coming whether we are ready or not.    Today I am SO grateful for all the people who have touched my life here on Obesity Help.    Grateful for all the wonderful people on the message boards giving much needed advice to others who need answers quickly.    Grateful for all my friends, family members, my home, my life and my Faith and answered prayers.   Grateful for my fur babies and for solutions for addictions to food addicts ( like me ) and for other addictions.   Grateful for this time of year and family gatherings.    Grateful for Support Groups.     PLEASE share with us if you will what you are grateful for today.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

This is YOUR body.  Do not let anyone change your mind.  If you want the band and your doctor won't do it go somewhere else.  You are the only one who knows you and what you are capable of doing.  Yes you will lose weight faster with Gastric bypass however it can fail just like every other WLS.  The surgery is just a tool and you have to be the one that change.  Research, research, research, ask questions, take notes and think about what you want. I have been putting off my surgery until I got to the point I was ready to make the choice on what I wanted.  You can't trade it in for another.  Good luck and remember your doctor works for you.

 Good Morning Everyone,

3 more days till Christmas.   Can't believe it.    Although I should.   LOL   We ALL have so very much in our lives to be grateful for.    I know that at this time of  year some that people reach out to others less fortunate that we are....but to be truthful that should be something done all year and not just at this time of the year.     We are a blessed people.   Kindness and Gratefulness should be something that we ALL share and do on a daily basis.     It never hurts anyone to be kind.     I am SO GRATEFUL for all the wonderful and kind people that I have met here on OH and on the message boards.    Grateful for Christmas time ( my favorite timei of the year ).    Grateful for the TRUE MEANING of Christmas and for my Faith and answered prayers.    Grateful for my families love and all that they mean to me.    Grateful for my husband and 3 sons and DIL.   Grateful fhat 2012 will be blessing us with our first grandchild.  I am SO excited and can't wait.    Grateful for seocnd chances that our WLS offers us from our food addictions.    Grateful for all the programs that help others get free of their addictions.    Grateful for Obesity Help and everything that it has meant to me in the 7 yrs I have been on here.    Grateful for my WLS and all the choices of WLS today.    Grateful for life., health, and YOU !!!  Please share with us if you will what you are grateful for today.   Have a blessed day and drive safely if you are out.


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

 Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau