Hey Maureen..Its our 4 month anniversary!

Hi, Wanted to check in and say hello and congratulations to both of us March 8th (ers) As I have said, its been a rough few months and my eating has suffered. I need to get a kick in the pants to get me back on track. Have not exercised much in the last couple of weeks. I have lost 65 or so, and shouldnt complain. But of course I think if I were exercising more and eating better, I would be doing better. My mind is mush with all thats going on in my life...I really need to get focused. Hope you are well! Hang in there, Kris

Hey Kris, glad to hear from you! And if you want to talk personally, feel free to email me directly. Hopefully, my response to you will benefit others as well. Congratulations on everyone's 4 month anniversary, as we all begin to celebrate this milestone. Like many of you, I have discovered and am learning to live with the fact that this surgery was absolutely NO magic bullet. To get the weight off, we MUST do the work. And with this challenge and effort, life will continue to do what it has always done...get in the way of success. Not because of life or living, but because of how we CHOOSE to respond to what's happening in our lives, the good and the bad...and sometimes, the very, very bad. I remember during one of my more successful attempts, with Weigh****chers about 13 years ago...I was going strong and had lost about 85 lbs. when I learned my mother had terminal lung cancer. That was the end of that and I put the weight back on in about a nano-second. Life hurts. And we will never be immune from the bad stuff that hits us hard in the gut so we have got to find a way to live through it by taking care of ourselves and doing what needs to be done to be able to live life at a more healthy weight. Kris, my heart breaks for you and I can't imagine what you're going through. You have been dealt a very bad hand, but live through it! Take small baby steps...just one commitment at a time, one a day. Start perhaps with a commitment to yourself that you're going to do 10 mins. of exercise tomorrow, anything, as long as it last 10 mins. Don't think about the next day until the next day, when you wake up and make another commitment to something else, just for yourself. You can do this. We all have su*****redible resources of strength, but we have to believe it exists within us before we can tap into it. Take care of yourself. Live well, be well, and be happy. You'll survive this, you will. All my love and best wishes, Maureen