FRIDAY GRATEFUL POST

  Good Friday Morning Everyone,

Hope you've got a great weekend planned.    I've not made any plans yet but I'm sure planning will take place later on.    We all have so many things in our lives to be grateful for.    Even though maybe we haven't had the most perfect life or things haven't been as we would have had it go...there are always things to be grateful for.    Today I am so grateful for my life since my WLS.   My life before WLS almost 7 yrs. ago was pretty bad.    I felt as though there was NO hope what so ever for me to lose my unwanted weight.    I had dieted for years and years....I'd lose a few pounds then turn around and re-gain it.    Without my WLS....I would probably be dead by now.     I am SO grateful that my husband's insurance covered my RNY and paid for it.    So grateful for the WLS and all the choices today of different surgeries and for so many insurance co. realziing that WLS IS a good thing for people with no hope of losing the weight any other way.    PLEASE share with us if you will what you are grateful for today and have a blessed. safe and cool weekend.   

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

Hi,

I was reading your words and thinking, "That sounds like my life."  I too am grateful for WLS and the new life it has given me.  I've recently made my way back to a local weight loss support group, but with a much different attitude.  I know today that the program will work for me if I work the program.  There is no getting out of homework.  If I want to live a healthy and happy life I have to take the tools that I've been given and work them.  No one else can do it for me.

I, too, say the Serenity Prayer at least once or twice every day.  The only way to keep it is to give it away.

 So glad you found your way back to a support group.    Trust me....you NEED the support so much the farther out from surgery you are.    My advice is stay focused on heathly eating and excercise.   Try to avoid "trigger foods" that will suck you back into "old habits".    It's our choice whether we are going to work the "tool" given to us and whether we will succeed or fail.    I know that with out God in my life there is NO WAY I would keep this weight off.    Thank you for your positive response.    Have a blessed day and weekend.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian