THANK YOU.

I wanted to say thank you to all the members here. I haven't posted much but I have been reading your posts, profiles, and comments for almost a year. As my own surgery date comes close... I find out the exact date tomorrow... I realize how much your stories have helped me. My confidence has grown just by reading and realizing I am not alone. I am not the only one who has tried and failed only to try again. I am not the only one who has suffered pain, humiliation, and depression over my weight and diet failures. I can't tell you all how much not being alone has meant to me. I am not the first to have WLS. I will not be the last. Update your profiles.... you have all served as a valuable resources to me and we both will to countless others who will come after us. Some days I think why couldn't I have inherited the skinny gene. The eat everything you want and not gain a pound gene. But you know what... She's not as strong as me. She's not as brave as me. And when I'm skinner.... she won't be as happy as me either. There is something to be said for what you earn, go through... god will only give you what he knows you can bare.... And so I say agian and louder..... THANK YOU ALL!!!

Nicely put, Laura Kia