for long term success...

Jan 24, 2012

I was just now talking with a friend of mine, who had gastric bypass about 10 years ago.

She's been a huge source of support for me, in terms of keeping me motivated to fight with my doctor to get the referral in the first place, and now, to keep motivated to eat properly, and take my vitamins and supplements.

She's a very sweet girl, she really is, but some of the ways she motivates me is from her 'bad' examples.

She lost 140 lbs, initially, and had a bunch of plastic surgery to get rid of excess skin (and other more vanity motivated procedures, breast implants, nose job, etc).

She's "pushed the limits" over the years, and can eat "normally" now. She eats chocolate, drinks alcohol (quite a lot, it seems from her facebook), and doesnt take her vitamins and supplements regularly at all.

She got divorced, just after she lost all her weight, then had the plastics. By her own admission she turned into "kind of a slut" for a while, all the compliments from all the men went straight to her head. Although her marriage wasnt the strongest in the first place, she recognizes her self esteem issues had a lot to do with the divorce. She's now settled down, she just got married "to the man of her dreams".

She's got joint pain issues that make it very difficult for her to exercise (related to not taking calcium? malabsorption?), so is finding it very difficult to maintain or lose weight.


Anyway.. i'm not sure what my point is. I guess that we can't ever drop our vigilance, about the demons that caused our weight gain.

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