Wednesday Roll Call

I am up and on my way to work so I thought I would take a turn at roll call. 1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess? 2. How tall are you? 3. What is your current weight? 4. What is your goal weight? Have a good day. Hazel

1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess? I really haven't decided yet. I want a place where I look good and feel good and am happy with where I am. But I still want the sz 2 pants and the low weight. 2. How tall are you? I am 5'9" 3. What is your current weight? 190 4. What is your goal weight? 160 Hazel

Good morning all. Im up and getting ready to hit the spa for a few hours. Not sure if Im excited or nervous. 1. What is your personal concept of WLS sucess? *Success? Well thats a hard one for me. When I was 167 I still thought I was HUGE. Now, looking back at pix, I realize I wasnt. I just want to feel comfortable in my own skin. I'll let you know when I get there! 2. How tall are you? *5 foot 11 inches tall 3. What is your current weight? *My weight this a.m. was 185 4. What is your goal weight? * My current goal would be to get to 165. Have a great day guys! kristi

Good Morning Hazel, Hope you have a great day & thanks for starting roll call. Here are my answers: 1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess? Be healthy, follow the rules & guidelines. It is with you forever & not a quick fix. 2. How tall are you? 5'2 3. What is your current weight? 130 4. What is your goal weight? 140~Passed that up though

1. WLS success to me, is losing the weight and then maintaining it... forever! 2. I'm 5'6 3. 160 4. 138, I got down to 130 but I'll take 138 again, or 140. My weight has ALWAYS bounced with in 3 lbs or so anyway. (Or to wear my cute size 4-6 jeans that are laying wasted in the closet right now. I can still wear my shirts, I guess the extra weight all went into my stomach/waist/ass area!) Hugs n stuff! Renee

Good morning everyone. I'm back from Ohio and missing my grandkids 1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess? ** Being healthy and looking normal. ** 2. How tall are you? ** 5' 6 1/2" ** 3. What is your current weight? ** today 152** 4. What is your goal weight? ** I would still like to get to 130's but I'd be happy at 140 again. But to be honest at 150 I still look ok** It's just a numbers thing in my head. Hugs, Anna

Here are my answers: 1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess? ****for me to get near my goal and stay there and learn to eat properly..... 2. How tall are you? ****5 foot 1 inch.........I am a shorty! 3. What is your current weight? ****149 lbs but it is better than 278 lbs 4. What is your goal weight? **** I want to weigh 125 lbs even if just for a day! Have a good day. Hugs, Chris

Good morning! 1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess? ~ Success for me would be health and happiness. Unfortunately, the happiness, for me, lies in scale numbers so, right now, I am very, very unhappy. Maybe true success would be defined as NOT caring what the scale numbers say! 2. How tall are you? ~ 5'10" 3. What is your current weight? ~ 169.9 (up from my lowest of 163) 4. What is your goal weight? ~ 160. Then maybe 155 and that's it. Have a great day, Everyone! Hugs, Jersey Mom

Hi every body!!! I hope you will have a beautiful day!!! Here in Guadalajara it dawnned foggy, but right now it is shiny and cool. (Well cool under our standards!!! lol) Here you have my answers. I am sorry if this is a very long post, but Hazel got an issue that is very sensitive for me. And I am feeling much better to describe it in detail to all of you, which are part of my process and WLS success: 1. What is you personal concept of WLS sucess?: I have thought that it is a process in which the loosing of weight is the least important of all the changes. Of course that everything is done to get the goal of loose weight, but after all I have lived and went through the process I came to the fact that the change of mind and feelings are at least as important as loosing weight. I used to think that an improvement of my looks would change everything for me. I hated who I was. I hated the reflexion of the mirror. And I wished with all my might to change into somebody with a good looking body and personality. Admired for my physicall appeal. I am sorry if I sound superficial here. I wanted to be accepted so badly. At that time the support of this group were here with me. I had here the acceptance I haven't for myself. In a certain time of the process, I started to loose ground, to loose stability. I loved to see the changes in my body. Thanks God my skin and body behaved incredible and my body got what I expected to achieve: a good looking body not having much hanging skin arround me. But the problem was that something started to change in my mind and in my heart too. It was something like Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hide. It started to grow up a monster inside me, thirsty to taste new horizons. Not accepting limits and boundaries. I wanted more!!!. I lived restricted inside my own obese body for so long time, and the opportunity to experience new fields were overwhelming. I started to reject my own persanility too and started to look for other alternatives for me. I had to work very hard on who I am and what is important in life. I got to the conclusion that eventhough I wanted a complete change in my life there were some things I needed to keep unntouched like my values and the love I had for my wife and kids. No matter how bad I wanted to experience new horizons in one stage of the process I had to take the desition to keep my essence. To keep myself whole and untouched. I needed to keep my soul clean, my mind clear and my body healthy. It was hard, and meant a lot of things. I have to confess that I took BAAAAAD decitions. They looked like good ideas at the moment, but after a deep consideration of the long term consequences I got the decision that I needed help. I had to returnned to the starting point again; to come back to the beginning. To define who I am, what is really important in my life, etc. This is the time that I asked for help and started therapy. Which resulted to be at least as a good decision as my WLS. The process of changing my relationship with myself, with the food, with the people around me proved to be as important as the process of loosing off the overweight. I changed my goals. I started to loose weight in order to gain health and quality of life instead of gettin an improvement on my good looking. I worked very hard on the acceptance of who I am. I had to get the realization of how much I value no matter if I am an obese or thin individual. I had to change the way I socialize, the way I get to approach to people, not fearing on what they think or feel about me, not stressing about them rejecting me because of my looks. I needed in this process to involve all the people around me too. I had some problems with my wife due to the fact that I was changing. She, in one point of the process started to rejecting me. She said that she felt that I was another person. Not the same Alex she used to sleep with, that I was different physically and in terms of relationship. My children suffered the change too. Every body started to complain on how skinny I was getting. It was annoying some times but after a while they started to accept that I was not the same, I had changed for good in a lot of ways. And I was not looking for acceptation of nobody except myself. So far the process has gone very far in a wonderful path. My family is happy with the new me. I am not as grumpy as I was before, I am able to enjoy their love. I am living in acceptance on who I am. I feel proud on all we, as a family were able to keep untouched in the process. Of course there were some suffering in the process but the reward is really priceless. Now I am able to maintain good realtionship with food. I am able to reject the things that are not healthy for me. I see food as a source of nutrients for my body not as a source of support for anxiety or depression. I am not allowing myself to come back to the vicious cycle of eating my frustrations in form of garbage food. I am able to enjoy my family and their love. I am able to enjoy who I am in truth. Of course I am facing hard challenges. I have to face deep hard problems, but I feel more authentic on who I am and ready to grab life by its horns and succeed. I came back here because I always felt like I abandonned the group running away of myself. And I always thought of the necessity to come back here and allow me the opportunity to try to support people I love with the same problems I am experiencing. 2. How tall are you? This is funny but when they measured me for the surgery I was exactly 6 feet tall. Few months ago when I started to loose the gainned weight they measured me again and I was 6 feet 1 inch tall. And it was the same scale with height rule. 3. What is your current weight? Some times I see in the scale 185, some times I see 187. It goes up and down from day to day. 4. What is your goal weight? right now is 185. But as soon as I have resources I will subscribe to the gym to gain some muscle weight and I wil change my goal to 195. Alejandro from Guadalajara Mexico

1. What is you personal concept of WLS success? *Success,(LOL), and WLS I personally think that success is the whole package. The person in your head (who controls you happiness) and the number that shows on the scale, and your health. 2. How tall are you? *5'7 3. What is your current weight? *220 (I was at 230 for a month, I thought I was done losing) 4. What is your goal weight? *150-160 (I have about 60 pounds of excess skin, so I am pretty close to my goal weight) Have a great day, Melissa 670/220/150-160