Well Lisa I am always inspired on what u have to say u r the brains of the group voice of reason and logic Lisa

Well shar u r like the peanut butter in group u hold us together

I think alot of people have fallen on hard times.. All our extra money has gone to medical bills with 4 surgeries 2 icu bills medi vac to ucla we are strapped to pay the medical bills. I am unable to go back to work right now to help with the finances due to my shoulder, I guess we are better than some right now but if hubby lost his job then we know we are gonna be in trouble in no time. I am doing food storage and planning on the worse. The food is so out expensive good thing hubby and I are WLS pts LOL. My marriage is sucky and to be honest I don't even care to even work on it .. Not like things are gonna change. We are just two different peoples with different ideas but not like I can move out with 7 kids living at home. I am stuck and don't get me started on the outlaws issue. But we all got to push threw this because if we don't our old habbits will get to the best of us again and food is the true enemy we all did not get morbid obese because we really like food. We have a problem deeper than most of us admit. We get threw this with support and even if it is to sound off better than stuffing a plate of cookies down our throat to deal with what is really eating at us .. I know some people think once they real goal no need to for more suport to be honest I am so Afraid of failing this surgery even once I get to goal . I have a true eating disorder and if I do not beleive I deserve to be thin I will not make it. I have a very self distructive nature about my self and I got to start to love myself again. I just see I am seeing 50 soon and I am aging and getting saggy skin boobies that I can tie under a belt and gray hair and wrinkles and age spots I wasted my youth on being fat!!!!!! Lisa

hello to all our other mia A team dee

I'm sorry. I am a lurker for the most part. I do however read this board every day. I am very thankful to you, Shar, Inky and the other regulars for sharing with us on a regular basis. I don't know why I don't post more. Sometimee I just think that I don't have much to contribute. I'm not as well spoken as some of you. And a lot of what is posted is like you took it right out of my head. I feel the same way so much of the time. I too am dissapointed about lack of posting by our A-Team. I was also dissapointed that our Chicago trip never came to be. For those of you that do post regularly, please do not stop! I look forward to reading every single morning. I will try to post more. Honest. Thanks you all, Joni