FRIDAY GRATEFUL POST

 Good Afternoon Everyone,

I know.....I am REALLY late posting this and for that I am very sorry.    I had a family crisis this AM that I had to take care of and didn't have time to post.    But better late than never.    As we ALL know this is a grateful post.    We ALL have things in our life that we need to be grateful for.   No matter how large or small it may be.    PLEASE share with us what you are grateful for today.   Today I am grateful for "new beginnings".    We were never promised a rose garden in our life and trust me....,mine lately has been more like a patch of stickers.     But I am so grateful for the trials that come our way in our lives.   It makes us a much stronger person in the end for all the valleys that we have to go through to get to those "mountaintop adventures" that are so memoriable.    Grateful for second chances at doing better with our WLS food choices from day to day and also second chances at a more meaningful life as a smaller person.     Grateful for my WLS, my family and friends, my life although at times it is so dramatic and crazy, grateful for my dear sweet husband of 34 yrs.   Grateful for Obesity help and all the different message boards here and all the wonderful encouraging people here.    Grateful for the upcoming OH Conference Sept. 9 - 10 in New Orleans, La.    Have a blessed weekend.


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

This is a great post, since I am having a "poor me" kind of day.

I am grateful that my surgery was moved up, it might have brought chaos to my life right now, but even with that chaos I am still feeling much more in control of my life now that I know exactly what is going to happen.

I am grateful for my wonderful husband, my surgery is going to come at a VERY inconvenient time for him (his office is moving 1.5 hours away from where they are currently located on Aug 10th and he has to pack up over 15 years worth of his own stuff and help his staff pack up their stuff to get it ready to be moved), but he has been wonderful about the whole thing. He knows how important it is to me and that I am better off with it sooner rather than later.

I am grateful for my kids, they have been amazing though this whole process. I have dragged all four of them to one doctor or another, GNC and several other places in the 100+ degree heat, and they have been angels everywhere we go. People have told me in EVERY single office we spent time in this week how wonderfully they behaved and how lucky I am.

I am grateful for the ridiculously hot weather, b/c it has forced me to get out in the pool and swim and I have NO appetite at all so it's been easy to stick to my pre-op liquid diet.

I am grateful for the friends that I have, who have offered to make meals for my family and brought the kids goodies and treats (we belong to a group that swaps homemade items, and even though I have not had anything to swap over the past week they have still brought me baskets and jars of fantastic home-cooked items, fresh eggs and homegrown fruit and veggies!).

I am grateful that 1 year after surgery I weigh 120 lbs! I'm down 90lbs from my highest weight. Basically I'm half of my former self. It's comfortable to exercise. My lab work looks perfect. I'm going to OA (sooo grateful for that program) to deal with the head part of my disease. In all, life really IS better one year out. I'm still me but I'm grateful for my surgery and grateful for my 12 step fellowship.

I am grateful that God has allowed me a chance at a new life slimmer, healthy and happy. Thank God for new beginnings and that we all have found a better way at life.