Happy Festivus to the rest of us!
I'm sure this will be long, so bear with me. 
I wanted the FL board to know that I am so happy to have found this little place on the web earlier this year. This board has offered me entertainment, daily banter and a place to cure my inquisitiveness (Q of the D). This board has become part of my routine~a daily habit, a forum to seek help and offer support, as well as, express my thoughts and opinions to anyone who will listen (read). But the most important thing this board has brought to me is the sense that I am no longer alone in my battle of the bulge. I now have found an entire family of strangers who have walked in my shoes and know my issues before and after surgery.
For so long as an obese person, no one in my life could truly relate to the struggles and pain I dealt with each day. No one understood the emotional pain I experienced or the humiliation I went through...oh, the stories that I could share. No one else knew how desperately I wanted to change my life and hoped for a future again. 
My life had stopped, I had become a robotic slug! Go to work, try to function in the corporate rat race, go home, eat to cure the pain, sleep more and be miserable day after day. I hadn't had a life for many years, I hadn't dated (much less flirted) for many years, I pushed friends and family away and built myself a little fortress to not subject myself to the real world.
Today, I am a different person. I know that a lot of that is due to my determination and commitment in wanting a better life, but I honestly couldn't have made all the steps forward without the support and love of my family on this board. So many of you have found a special place in my heart and many of you I now consider friends. Hopefully, this circle of friendship will continue long after I am gone from the boards. Right now, I still need the board and all that it offers me in my success. 
I wanted to wish each of you a wonderful holiday and hope that you all are blessed in the new year with love, hope and great times. Thank you so much for being here for me each and every day! I love you all 
Amy
-128lbs.
I wanted the FL board to know that I am so happy to have found this little place on the web earlier this year. This board has offered me entertainment, daily banter and a place to cure my inquisitiveness (Q of the D). This board has become part of my routine~a daily habit, a forum to seek help and offer support, as well as, express my thoughts and opinions to anyone who will listen (read). But the most important thing this board has brought to me is the sense that I am no longer alone in my battle of the bulge. I now have found an entire family of strangers who have walked in my shoes and know my issues before and after surgery.
For so long as an obese person, no one in my life could truly relate to the struggles and pain I dealt with each day. No one understood the emotional pain I experienced or the humiliation I went through...oh, the stories that I could share. No one else knew how desperately I wanted to change my life and hoped for a future again.
My life had stopped, I had become a robotic slug! Go to work, try to function in the corporate rat race, go home, eat to cure the pain, sleep more and be miserable day after day. I hadn't had a life for many years, I hadn't dated (much less flirted) for many years, I pushed friends and family away and built myself a little fortress to not subject myself to the real world.
Today, I am a different person. I know that a lot of that is due to my determination and commitment in wanting a better life, but I honestly couldn't have made all the steps forward without the support and love of my family on this board. So many of you have found a special place in my heart and many of you I now consider friends. Hopefully, this circle of friendship will continue long after I am gone from the boards. Right now, I still need the board and all that it offers me in my success.
I wanted to wish each of you a wonderful holiday and hope that you all are blessed in the new year with love, hope and great times. Thank you so much for being here for me each and every day! I love you all
Amy
-128lbs. 
I have been busy all day getting things together at my house but I just wanted to say Hello, Amy and that you expressed my thoughts also. It is something that can't be described and I thought at 50 years old I was stuck in that fat body only to become one of those women that struggle to even get up each day. I am very blessed and you all are part of that blessing. Like you, Amy, I could tell some stories and maybe someday I will write them, but I know that being in touch with you all on a day to day basis has helped me change my life.
Happy holidays to all and to all a good night.
Carol
-46#
Carol
-46# 
Happy Festivus one and all!!! In the county where I live, a local church has put up a nativity scene on the lawn of a public building. It has raised a lot of debate on whether it should be allowed to stay or not. Later, someone put up a sign beside it that says "Festivus for the rest of us". I just thought it was funny.
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