Please Read! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!

Dear God Mother:

I am so and deeply sorry to know all the stuff you are experiencing. You have a sincere friend in me. I love you and always will.

You will be rewarded with a more satisfying job than the last one. I am sure of that.

big hug

Alex

Hello God Son!

Thank you for the big hug and words of comfort.  I am trying to be optomistic on the job front.  I had 3 interviews last week and am interested in 2 of them.  I hope they will call me back for the next round of interviews sometime this week.

And Friday my brother flies in from Houston to spend the holidays here. I miss him a great deal and always look forward to his visits.

Ihope it has warmed up for you at home.  Today in Chicago is was very warm but really windy and they say we will be back int he deep freeze with more snow over night.  I do hate the winter time.

If I could afford it I would probably have a house in the Houston area for the winter and spend the spring and summer in Chicago.  What a nice dream that would be.

Be well and my best to your family for a healthy and happy holiday season.

Love and hugs,

Ronni

Jersey,
Thanks for pushing us out of lurkdom.  I too am struggling with the same issues.  I've gone from a low of 143 up to 165.  I hate it.  When I look in the mirror I just see the fat girl staring back at me.  Everyone says i'm crazy, but I'm right there with you feeling like a fat cow!  I'm only 5'4" so I feel especially huge!  I work out every day and when I am diligent about my diet, the scale doesn't budge.  In fact, the creep up started when I began a new workout at the gym.  The doctor said it was probably just muscle.  Well, I got news for him, it's definitely not muscle! 

I will certainly make more of an effort to post regularly to the board.  I'm more comfortable lurking, but that will be my New Year's resolution.

Thanks again. We made it this far, and we were warned that we would have "rebound weight" but we can take charge again and get this under control with support and help from this board.

My best to everyone,

Kim

Hey Kim!

I am so with you!  I am struggling and I feel like a big, fat failure!  I HATE mirrors nowadays.  For a while...I started to quite enjoy them.  Well, no more! 

But., unlike me, you are doing great things for your body!  Working out every day is amazing!  You should be proud of yourself for that!

Thanks so much for coming out of lurkdom!!  It is great to see you!!

Have a wonderful holiday!

Jersey

I am sure we can all get back on track soon...................

I need to step away from the crackers and wine........

I am up about ten pounds but ten to me feels like fifty to me, after my LBL it is like a belt sinched tight around my mid section...

HAVE A GREAT WEEK

TORI

Hey Tori!

I am sure we can, too.  At least, I am hoping I can!!  I just cannot go back to where I was...but that is where I am heading.  That is my goal in the new year...start fresh and get back to the basics!

Have a wonderful holiday!!

Love and hugs,
Me

Hello,

Me again just noticed this post. Dont be so hard on yourself....NO ONE is perfect!!!  What are a few pounds?? Be glad it's not 50 or so. You could loss that 10 or 15 lbs. in a week if you put your mind to it just like old times. Think positive!!   I freeze all the time too cant seem to get warm!! I dont even stay at the same weight but I do make it a personal mission to stay in the same size pants if they seem to be getting snug i hit the treadmill hard and lay off on the food i know i shouln't be eating anyway.

Debra

Hey Jersey,

I never posted much, and actually haven't been on much at all this year. But I did most of my gaining in year 2. I went from 313 down to around 203 then back up. Last Christmas I was 235 and was very depressed. But today I am happy to say that I am at 191!! I'm short, so I still have more pounds to go!

The most important thing is recognizing any bad habits, the weight gain and stopping it before it's out of control. Last year I did some major reflecting of my lifestyle and realized that I didn't have this surgery just to gain back like I had done on other "diets" and was determined to make my tool work for me!!

Oh....and also, during this year....after 16 years of being divorced, I met a wonderful man and have just recently gotten engaged!!!!

Can't wait to see what 2009 brings for us!!!!

Hugs,
Dianne

Hi, I'm Rose and I'm a 'lurker'.  I think part of my reason for 'lurking' is that I always felt like  an' outsider' with this group.  While I had my surgery in January 2006 like the rest of you, I didn't find the January 2006 forum until several months after my surgery.  By that time so many of you had already bonded and were friends either 'cyber' or 'real' and I felt like the 'tag a long'.  So I 'lurk'.....

I was called into the President's Office on July 23rd and told I had until July 25th at 4:00 p.m. to vacate my office - that I was 'terminated'.  I was fortunate to be able to negotiate a severance package; however, it has been devastating to me.  I have suffered with 'big old failure girl' issues for most of my 53 years and being terminated has not helped that issue - neither has job hunting.  Rejection letters hurt - especially when you really need the job.

All of that being said, I promise to stop lurking and start posting. 

Rose from PA

Dear Rose:

I am sorry to know about you loss of your job.

You have at this place a sincere family. We are here to support you. Please don't feel like an outsider, you will find out that we are all a family struggling to keep together. We have needs and probles to share with every body else.

Big hug

Alex