Thank you for making this available !!! Please, also write to your congess members. It is very important !!!

If I started a support group meeting, would anyone want to attend? I miss them from when I was in Seattle. Kris ~open distal rny 12/31/02 393/213~ Lewiston, ID

Hi Adrienne~ I must agree with you. I am sick of skinny people telling me how to lose weight and how important it is. Have they done it? NO !!! I have started to tell people that I am going to die from being fat anyway so why not give the surgery a try. I get mad at the insurance companies too. They would rather fork out tons of money on meds and let us die than help us. What a pain !!! I have been writing letters to skinny Congress men too. I am hoping they will force insurance companies to stop the discrimination against fat people. I wonder if these people would have been voted into office if they were obese? I doubt it !!! Would the media people have a job if they were obese? Not very often !!! I hope I never catch myself judging someone like the world judges obese people. I really wish these self-appointed experts would start listening to the doctors and researchers that have studied the obese and dieting !!! Keep fighting the good fight !!! Kari

Hi Debbie: I bet you are about snowed in down there like I am here. I use the protien drink from GNC called whey protien vanilla flavored. I start each day out with my protien drink. I think of it as my new coffee. Sounds like you are eating the same kind of stuff that I did. I also enjoyed sugar free hot chocolate. I drink propel flavored water and crystal lite by the bucket. I tried a drink of diet coke at about 2 months out and it tasted horrid. ( I knew it was not approved) And to think I drank 1/2 rack a day before surgery. Where did you have your surgery? and Who was your doctor? I have family here in Lewiston that will be moving to Boise in the spring. There are two ladies in the same family...mother daughter team... that hope to have wls. Good luck in your journey. please feel free to e mail me any time with any questions. alison in Idaho -54 pounds

Hello: my name is Shine. from Des Moines. I am getting ready to resubmit the whole darn thing, letters, bmi etc. to Principal Health. United healthcare rejected me times 2. Has anyone delt with Principal.???