HI and Welcome back.... I know the feeling... I too drop out of sight for a while and just started coming back not too long ago.... I have gained back some weight and am at 223... Funny you would pick today to post this, because when I got up this morning I decided today was the day to work on getting back on track... I had eggs for breakfast instead of cookies and I will have a turkey wrap for lunch instead of chocolate covered raisins and I will chew gum instead of munching on cookies and candy all day... Don't know what I am doing for dinner yet, but it will be a sensible dinner and no snacking at 11 pm for me anymore....  OH and Water Water Water instead of all the pop I have been drinking....

 

We can do this if we stick together and keep coming back here for support.... I also starting battling another addiction recently and that is alcoholism.... I am sure that played a big part in my weight gain, and then when I gave that up, I switched back to the junk food... So now I am putting both of those things out if my reach and out of my mind.... I want to be healthy and be around for a long time for my kids and my grandson....

 

I see a therapist and a psychiatrist too, and they both suggested that I get back in touch with my group as well.... This is a great place... we just all need to get back to posting... I miss everyone here...

 

I have also started posting on my state board again... Not a lot of responses from my posts, but at least I am getting things out there....

 

You have come to far to stay down... we all fall sometimes, but we need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and move forward again.... You can do it and I know you will....  ONEderland here we come again!!!!!!

Good Luck and I hope to see you around here regularly again.... I know I will be checking regularly!!!

 

Well, time to switch the laundry.... Have a good day....

 

HUGS 2 You,

 

Hello Sharon

                Welcome back, I see you had your surgery one day before mine. Sorry to hear you’re having problems but it happens too many of us. The good news you can get back on track with some support. I am an OH certified support group leader and I know how important it is to have a good support system. Statics have shown that people who have had weight loss surgery that regularly attend some kind of support group have the best success. I am a support group leader of two groups one here on OH and one in my town. However both of my groups are for men only but I regularly attend a support group for men and woman in my town sponsored by the hospital that I had my surgery at. Things are a bit slow on this board lately so I would like to recommend another support group here on OH. It is called Back on Track Together here is the kink to it. www.obesityhelp.com/group/backontracktogether  The leader of this group is a good friend of mine. Cathy Wilson is a staff member of OH and she was the leader of the support group I attended in my town she is also the person that trained me to be an OH support group leader. If anyone can help she and her group can. So please check her group out and good luck.

                                                                                                              Alan Hartman

ok, it has been more than a year since I have been an active poster. My goal (I don’t do resolutions) is to post at least once per week.  I have gone back to a therapist and when we discussed my regaining of some weight and my food obsessions he asked if I was going to any support groups. I said no and that I used to use OH as my support group but I stopped even coming to the group for check in’s, support and friendship.

He suggested that I reconnect and stay with the group. He said that I needed to have like type minds in 'my pocket' rather  than what I have been using for comfort... which we all remember to be our former best friend... food.

So with that all being said, I am 233 as of today, I am starting fresh as of tonight and I hope to reconnect with all my OH friends.  Happy New year and Cheers to all of us for a lighter 2009! ~Sharon

Hi Shawn,
You look great!!  And your little baby (must be your grand baby)  just looks so very cuddle.  I love
babies!! 
I was wondering where every one is at myself.  Britt was posting how she was doing almost everyday and now she must be really involved in the holidays.  Me I have been out in outer space, my sister says that I am always on "Pluto"
I have not been doing very well with my journey, but I am going to get on track again, even if I have to sew my lips together, I don't want to go back to where I was, ever.  I am happy where I am at and I would like to stay that way.  I need the support of all my Nov 06 friends, I think that we all need someone, and there is no better place that this site.
How have you been doing and how are you feeling?  I do hope that you are well and that you have gotten a hand on your depression again.  I know from "being there, done that" that depression is no fun.  Depression can lay dormant for years and all of a sudden pop its head up when we least expect it.  Our daughter is going though a bout with it now and I just pray for her, (like I do you) that she does not go as deep as I did with it.  I stuttered, could not carry on a conversation, was so out of control.  I finally gave mine to the Lord and I try to let Him deal with it, I know that it is easier said that done, but keep up the faith and it will happen.  I am by "no means cured" and it scares me.
My weight has been up and down up and down and that scares me as well.  I went to the site that people are going for revisions and only four or five years out and let me tell you that scared me even more to read what they had to say.  So it is "watch what I eat, drink water, water, and protein and that ole cuss word "excercise"
Better get going, I am so glad that you posted, and was glad to hear from you, at least now I know for sure that I am not out on the planted Pluto like my sister says that I am.
Blessings

Good Morning Everyone:
I have not been posting my weigh in's because I have had a miserable cold and been
dealing with our jobs out here in Oregon.  They have cut back on our job's, laid people
off indefinitely and it is just awful anyway you look at it.  I hate to see ANYONE loose their
jobs, it is so very sad.
My sweetie of 39 years has prostate cancer and is going for radiation everyday, he is doing
and going to be just fine.  Still having the shock of the big C is no fun at all, no matter
where it is at in your body.  My sweetie will be 71 years young in June and I think that he is
really frighten, he comes to me with all kinds of little aches and pains, and that is why I am in
his life, so that I can reassure him that it is fine,  our friend gave me a book to read,
"prostate cancer for dummies"  would you believe that, well let me tell you that book has been
a life saver, I appreciated it so much to have it to read, it gave me so much info on the subject,
and NOT to believe every thing that you hear, not to hold back on asking questions.  Sweetie even had to have a hormone shot, dr said that he will have hot flashes, night sweats, and me
grouchy just like a woman, I told the dr "to late on the later"
Sorry to let you ladies have to listen to me about my sweeties but I know that all of you will
keep him in your prayers and that you are all so very wonderful.
START WEIGHT  255
START BMI            42.1
CURRENT WT     145
CURRENT BMI      24.1
GOAL                       140
PERSONAL ACCEPTABLE   140-145
LOSS TO DATE     110

I have been eating to grasing to much, just because of nerves I guess, in the last couple of days though I have grabbed a glass of water instead of some carb stuff and that really helps.  I have not weighed in a few days, until this morning so I proably went over my 145 and just dont know that I did, hopefully and prayfully I am back on track.  Britt  and Wanda you both are so very right,
"IT IS A EVERYDAY STRUGGLE IN OUR JOURNEY IN ARE LIFE OF WLS"  we cannot give up or we will be right back where we started from.
Sorry that this is so long.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
BLESSINGS