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Hi!!!!!!!!!!! Well I'm in the same battle of all of you, gaining five pounds . Loosing two but, I'm fighting with myself everyday. At least I'm in the last week of college. Got an "A" in one of my classes. Couldn't handle 3 classes together. I'm getting new medications for my depression. Natural pills called 5HTP they said they are good for cravings I hope they are. I'm so mad with myself I haven't gone down from 190 since long time . I go to 195 , go back 193 and so. This battle will never end as I see. So let's learn that this is for ever. Always hanging in to see your posts. That you all for being thier for us. Rennie , Mike and others God bless you all. Keep me in your prayers I want to be back in my best mood again.

Present and accounted for. Battling weight like everyone else and always will. I had to go to Urgent Care the other day for my kidneys and the doctor there told me that she had just attended a medical seminar where they talked about WLS. She said that patients who had gastric bypass significantly cut their risk of heart disease. I thought, well of course, once you get the weight off, that makes sense. She said that there was more to it than that. They compared people who had wls and people who had lost a significant amount of weight on their own and the wls folks were in better cardiac health. They determined that it is the surgery itself, for some reason and not just the weight loss that makes a difference, possibly the malabsorption. If I get two minutes to rub together, I'm going to try to find that study. Work sucks up all the daylight hours and then some. Saturday mornings I'm teaching. The rest of the time is split with family, friends, The Man and remodeling the house... still. This time I'm installing a fluted glass door between the kitchen and laundry room, putting in Connie's version of crown molding and later this summer I'll put hardwood floors down in the last two rooms that still have carpet. Oh yeah, once I can raise my arms without pulling, I'll scrape the last of the popcorn ceilings down. I overdid it last week working on the yard and I'm paying for it with swelling. I thought that at a month out from PS, I'd be OK to start moving. I was good about not moving anything too heavy, but I still overdid it, even though it didn't feel like it at the time. It's so frustrating to have the health to do physical labor and not be able to do it for awhile. I love being able to haul and lift and tote and dig and climb and carry and this sedentary crap is driving me crazy. I'll get over it. OK, I've rambled enough. I just don't know how to shut up. Big Hugs, Connie