Part 2-Who is driving this thing?

Jan 30, 2010

I wanted to repost a post which was a reply to our fabulous Yvonne (www.bariatricgirl.com) and Yvonne's post was in reply to MM's post about Carnie Wilson gaining weight. Link is here: http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/4112314/How-Much-Did-Carnie-Wilson-Regain/


*************************My post to that thread below**************************************
Seriously-thanks for this excellent post. Yes-bad news is..it's up to us. The good news is..it's UP TO US! LOL!

Who else is driving this car-do you think? It's US! If we gain weight-the odds are we are taking in too many calories. Weight gain has NOTHING to do with surgery. You can gain weight with or without WLS. 

Yes-I do think it is starting to dawn on the collective WLS "US" that more needs to be done to educate and prepare us for life post WLS. We will get there in time. Until then-until the surgeons do everything perfectly and until someone tells us EVERYTHING that we should expect after-we are going to have to take the steering wheel and educate ourselves.

So lots of people gain weight after WLS? So? And??? Will you gain weight after WLS? I know who you can ask to find out for sure. YOU. Trust me. Look around to the people that ARE successful. They are NOT freaks of nature and polly pure-breads-they are DOING something right. YOU can be successful too. It's not an accident or a luck thing.

If you are newly out of surgery-that's GREAT news..because you have time to really LEARN how to educate yourself and OWN your WLS. To those of you who have gained some weight-look up some stories about others who have post WLS gain and LOSE it again. There are those folks out there too!

It's REALLY easy to notice the car wreck outside your window-but how often do you stop and look at all the other cars thinking "Dang..they are driving alright!" LOL!

You can call me a cheer-leader and a goody goody and a Pollyanna-but the thing is-I am doing alright! Yvonne is doing alright too! Why is that? Ask us. Ask others who are doing OK too. Trust me that you will find MANY different folks succeeding in many different ways. 

Let me steal this from Yvonne-pick someone you admire and ASK them how they got there and what it was like.

Your car. Your body. Your WLS. Your choice.

Peace,
T

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