Good Morning Do Over. Happy Thanksgiving
I'm thankful I can be myself here on the LW board. You guys accept me and all my faults.
Thank you for reading what I write and commenting when you want to.
Thank you for sharing this journey with me and thank you for sharing your journey with all of us.
Thank you, Vitalady, for saving my life and my health 5 years ago.
Thanks to my surgeon and the dieticians that made it possible for me to lose weight and all the comorbidities I had going on 5 years ago.
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5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
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DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
I'm thankful that I had a great surgeon and program that gave me a stella beginning
I'm grateful that I had an insurance program that paid a good bit on my WLS
I'm thankful that I have a wonderful family that has been supportive through WLS, knee replacement, and now my cataracts
I'm thankful for work that allows me to pay my bills and live a life I enjoy
I'm thankful my DH's stroke wasn't any worse than it was
I'm thankful I am going to someone else's so I don't have to cook the whole meal.
66 yrs young, 4'11" hw 220, goal 120 met at 12 months, cw 129 learning Maintainance
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I'm thankful for the LW board and the supportive people here.
I'm grateful to the vets for steering me right on vites (and to Majormom re what it's OK to eat especially in my first weeks - I was scared of chili and low sugar jelly back then he he!!).
I'm grateful to my surgeon for doing such a good job.
I'm grateful for the easy recovery I've had (I prepared for the worst and pretty much got best outcome).
I'm grateful to my DH who supported me even though he didn't want me to have surgery.
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If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you John C Maxwell Sleeve 2010 Dr López Corvala, Mexico. DS 2012 Dr Himpens, Belgium
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I have so much to be thankful for. Most of all I am thankful for my kids and grand kids, that they are all healthy and doing well. Nothing else would matter if I didn't have them.
I am thankful to have a job and to actually like my job and the people I work with. I am grateful that I am able to work in spite of my health problems.
I am grateful for good health insurance.
I am grateful to live in a country that takes care of it's sick, disabled and disadvantaged. It is not perfect and has a ways to go but if I didn't live here I don't know how I would have survived all these years with my health problems.
I am grateful for my furry babies, as much as they aggravate me. I am grateful for Tazzie, my best friend, even though she is old and cranky she has gotten through many rough times. For Princess and Pepper, they babies of my precious Tazzie and JJ, who give me unconditional love and affection and make me laugh daily. For Winston, my newest dog who's liveliness keeps me jumping, who's behavior issues due to past neglect and abuse challenge me and help me learn patience and how to have compassion for a voiceless creature who depends on me to give him love and acceptance, something he never seems to have been given. Any my feline Larry, who is growing up with 4 dogs and believes himself to be a dog. A huge baby that is already running the house and is the softest thing I have ever known.
I am thankful that although I still have many wants I have no needs as they have all been met by my loving God, as I understand Him. I am blessed beyond measure with an abundance of material things, food, shelter and transportation that by all rights I shouldn't have.
I am grateful to be free from the burden of morbid obesity and the all consuming issue of food addiction (one day at a time). To be able to enjoy food and no longer be a slave to it. To finally know what it's like to be completely satisfied by what I am eating and no longer be driven to eat beyond capacity and to know that even on today, the most gluttonous day of the year, I will be able to partake with the others but not to the point of sickness and regret.
And last but certainly not least, my boyfriend John, who has stood by me through sickness and health, and the quest for health, through literal thick and thin, with his unconditional love and acceptance, who has never asked more from me t hen I am able to give, who has shown me that it is possible to be loved for who I am and not what I look like. Who's love and acceptance has helped me learn to give those things as well as to receive them.
I am grateful for the generosity of a complete stranger who in anonymity gifted me with the ability to continue to be able to drive and live in my home, asking nothing in return but for me to pay it forward, which I try to do every day and to be a better person. Her belief in my started the ball rolling to my life turning around this year. I am forever grateful.
And last, I am grateful for the 12 years I got to receive love from the best dog in the world, until his Master called him home to be by His side. JJ, I will always love you and miss you.
WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010
High Weight (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.
I am so thankful for my friends on this board and all the help they have given me over the years. I know that there are no stupid questions here!!
I am thankful for my family. I have got to spend time with my family and DH's family this week. It has been wonderful. So thankful for my parents that raised me in a Godly home and taught me right from wrong, but always loved me no matter what I did in life.
I am thankful for my friends. It is great to have people you can count on no matter what.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!
Linda
I have so much to be thankful for that I could write a book. I have been blessed with a wonderful husband, two great kids, and four sweet grandchildren. The oldest one came into our family with his dad and I was blessed that I didn't have to wait for grandchildren, got a three-year-old one right away. He turns 13 next month, time flies.I also have four cats that are a joy to have. The forth one came recently, she is a love bug. I think she understands that is DH hadn't brought her home, she would have starved to death.
I also have great friends both in RL & here on OH. The advise and friendship here have played such a huge role in how prepared I was pre-op, and how motivated I am to stick with the plan post-op.
Life holds many things that I can be thankful for. Even when challenging cir****tances happen, having such a great support system helps me get through it. Happy Thanksgiving.