Need For Change.......

Does anyone else feel the need to change some major things in their lives right about now? Im thinking career change..............hmmm............thinking about going back to school, changing my career, I moved so I changed my living situation. Seems like I want everything to change.........is it just me? Now..........if I could only get that friggen %$$#@!!! scale to move. I have not lost one pound in 4 weeks! Im frustrated, but what can ya do..........just move on. Id be interested to know all of your thoughts..........how have your emotions been doing since between all of you you have dropped like 2000 lbs! Thats INSANE! But very good............. Carrie

I sure can understand where your coming from. I have had the need to change my career, especially job one month following my surgery. I haven't been able to follow through because of making sure insurance for medical purposes were taken care of first. I also set forth to move back to Europe come spring. For me its been a true life change and making me really look at what makes me trully happy. I realize and recognize I am an emotional eater and have been taking out my stress and frustrations through eating. I don't want to go back to whom I was before so change is coming!!!! New job starting next month. I will have finished Nursing school in December so the door is open to me, and I am walking through it. I hope you find peace and figure out what will make you happy. I know right now my emotions are running wild and I think it has to do partly diet and other part wanting change now. Well you take care. The weight will come off! Keep your chin up. --Sabrina

Oh yes, I certainly understand the need for change. I bought a different car. I had wanted to for a while but now I just feel like I can do anything. The only problem is I did not trade my old car in first. Now I will have 2 car payments until I sell the old one. Anyone want to buy a Subaru Forrester? Buying a new car is not going to make me happy, but I certainly feel like it fits better with the new life I am creating. One thing that is strange about it is that I have never been one to care about cars, I never notice what people drive or anything like that. I also have a desire to change my job but the one person I really did not care for there left right before my surgery and it seems a lot better now. I still have a hundred pounds to lose so perhaps when I get closer to goal I will make that move as well. I have also been single for many years and I am starting to wonder why I never get asked out. Even prisoners can make a love connection but not me. Thanks for this post Carrie I was afraid I was the only one needing change. Julie

I certainly understand where you're coming from. I have altered my life nearly beyond recognition. I used to stay home whenever humanly possible. I avoided parties, outings, and gatherings of any sort like the plague. Now, I'm everywhere! I have my writers group, my bookclub, I've joined the PTA board at my son's school, I'm planning a group trip, my son's basketball season starts soon. I'm even out & about in my neighborhood, taking long walks with my dogs and hanging at the park with my son. The other day I realized that I don't have to keep my job anymore. I've gotten what I wanted out of the company's insurance. I can move on anytime I want. Plus, I'll be more appealing at interviews because I'll look "normal." Sad, but true. I've been helping out at work in a different department, and I told one of the senior managers that if she heard of any openings in our marketing department to let me know. I'm sweeping the cobwebs aside and coming out to play!!! Julie P.S. My scale hasn't moved in over 3 weeks either. This bites!

Carrie, It is not just you. I have enrolled in school and changed my house around. I have also become more active. The need to go and do is so large now. Have also decided that I am tired of being mom to 1000 kids. I have 3 special needs kids and am a stay at home mom. All my friends works so I always have their kids here too. At one point this week I had 11 kids at my table doing homework. My scale is creeping now too. I was doing about 5 to 6 pounds a week and the last 2 I have lost 4 pounds. Due to the stricture my body went into starvation mode and it is H### getting it out of it.

Hello Carried It is so good to see that others are feeling like you. I have decided to leave regular school and finish my degree online. I have also decided to go into a different line of work. My biggest decisoin is that I am going to move bact to california in a year and half. I will be done with school by then and should be able to get a good job. My son's father is back in cali and I think he needs to be around him. I will be leaving my mom the biggerst support person in my life since my son was born. She has family here in arizona and does not want to move back. My son will be turning five right before we move and I feel that this is an age where a son needs their dad the most, I am scared but i figure it is for the best. I hope to be at goal by that time or at least close to it. I still have a lot of work to do but i feel that i can do it.

I have been planning on starting college fall semester 2006. I have had this dream/plan since I started the preop process. I just turned 24 and have never been to college. I work as a Customer Service Rep on the phone. Upper management keeps telling us that there are so many oppourtunities for us within the company. I think there are too, if you have gone to college! I am planning on working 30hrs a week to keep my insurance and going to college full or part time, whichever I can handle. The school I want to go to is in the same town I work in so if I have a class I can leave work, go to class and then go back to work. I want to wait another year before starting because I still have days where after working 8hrs I go home and am so tired that I have to take a nap. I dont think that I have the energy yet, but who knows maybe I will have the energy to start early in January. I am nervous about feeling out of place as a 25yo freshman, but it will be worth it!

You all totally amaze me! I know more than ever that I am not alone in this journey. Sometimes my mind just goes a thousand miles a minute! I think that shedding these extra pounds terrifies me because I have no idea what I will be like being so vulnerable to the world! For so long I have hidden behind my weight. I just realized Friday, one of the most STRESSFUL days I have had in years, that I couldnt go to McDonalds and order a meal and go home to eat it all! Part of me was pissed, another part of me smiled and said.......Oh yea! You are on your way to being healthy! I wonder now what I will do with my time now that I cant eat away my stress! I still havent gotten that far yet! I like the changes that are coming.......and the changes that are already here. Thanks for all of your posts! I support all of you! I think for my birthday, which is in January, that I may go buy a Jeep Wrangler, I have wanted one since I was 15! I just may take a pic laying across the hood in my tank top and tight jeans! HA! I can only wish! Keep posting May babies! It helps so many......even those lurkers! Carrie

Carrie, I am right there with you, I used to go through the Mc'd line and then if i needed choc would put down a pint of my favorite two friends Ben and Jerry....Now I go to the gym to take a kickboxing or spinning class...I love my new stress outlet..don't worry you will find yours two. Melissa 346/289/150-soon i hope

I'm with you, Carrie, but I don't know what I want to change, so instead, I'm just antsy... I don't want to move, unless it's just a new house in the same city, but financially, right now, that's not a possibility. Same with a new car... I love my job, I'm doing something that I've worked hard to get to and can't see a career change in my future... I'm already GOING to school... Hmmm....maybe I'm too busy, and THAT'S what I need to change... Here's two (small things) I've changed or am getting ready to change: I've grown my nails out. For the first time in my life, I have fingernails past the tips of my fingers. I've ALWAYS been a biter. Not anymore... On Friday, I'm getting my hair cut and I'm thinking about going pretty short - or at least shorter than it's been in about 10 years. Right now it's shoulder length and I'm thinking about going chin/jawline length. I'm getting my VERY FIRST manicure at the same time... That's really what I've changed. I've never been much of a "girly-girl" and now I'm getting "girlier"...